The Silence Of The Lambs (1991) and Toy Soldiers (1991)

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Film History, Tv & Film

4.9 • 813 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Film Stories with Simon Brew, a pair of films released within a few months of each other, that had one or two things in common. The Silence Of The Lambs was originally earmarked by Gene Hackman for his directorial debut, and a deal was struck for the book rights. But the story's violence was putting people off, and there was a bit of a rights hurdle that had to be negotiated too. Things with Toy Soldiers were lower profile, but still: at one stage this low-ish budget action film was being adapted with Midnight Cowboy director John Schlesinger in mind - and then the company backing the project decided to drop out. Stories of both are told in this episode. Find Simon on Twitter at @simonbrew, and the podcast can be found at @filmstoriespod. Support this podcast: www.patreon.com/simonbrew. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Simon Brew.
0:03.2	I'm the editor of Film Stories magazine and a very warm welcome to the Film Stories podcast.
0:12.1	Come with me.
0:14.4	And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
0:17.8	And movies.
0:18.9	Movies that had stories.
0:20.6	That the story just sucks a man.
0:23.1	This is just the beginning.
0:25.7	We would be honored if you would join us.
0:32.5	Hello and a very warm welcome to Film Stories with Simon Brew.
0:36.6	I am Simon Brew. All you need to know about me.
0:39.2	The aim of the podcast though, well, it's given away in the title. I'm here to talk of the
0:43.0	stories, the stories of film and I tend to talk about development stories, production stories,
0:47.1	marketing stories, release stories, all those ingredients that go to make the films that we know
0:51.4	and sometimes love, just that are films that we know and sometimes love. just that, the films that we know and sometimes love.
0:55.1	The films I tend to choose this podcast, they tend to be more mainstream-leaning than anything else.
0:59.7	There are certainly films I'm interested in or infested in to some degree.
1:02.9	I try not to do snark.
1:04.0	I try not to punch down.
1:05.1	This podcast is very firmly a celebration of cinema and appreciation of just how difficult it is to make a film and gratitude
1:12.2	really that film somehow get through this whole system and end up on the screens in front of us.
1:17.6	Without further ado, I'm going to get on with the first of the two films I'm going to talk about in this episode of film stories and, well, both of them actually come from 1991, but let's kick off with probably the highest profile of them.
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