I didn't want to put that out into the world."Ĥ. It was that evil won in the end, that at the end of that film evil ruled out. The thing I most regret is missing the opportunity to do another film with Jonathan. The actress reiterated as much to The New Yorkerin January, "With Silence of the Lambs, I was trepidatious. That's reportedly why Pfeiffer walked away, too, saying, she was "unable to come to terms with the overpowering darkness of the piece." Arthur said, 'Don't worry Gene, I'll buy out your half.' That's how Orion got the rights."īut according to the 1991 Empire story, Hackman was so caught up in the making of 1988's Mississippi Burning, playing one of the FBI agents on a case inspired by the real 1964 murders of three civil rights activists in the segregated South, that he no longer felt like bringing a nihilistic piece of material such as Silence of the Lambs into the world. "And she called her father and said, 'Daddy, you're not making this movie.' So, Gene called Arthur, told him what happened. "Gene Hackman's daughter read the book," Bookman told Deadline, describing the story he heard from a colleague at Paradigm. (De Laurentiis loaned the character of Lecter to Orion for free.) There are dueling recollections of why Hackman walked away from the project and let Krim at Orion buy him out. "He did say, maybe Bobby will play Lecter, but I didn't have the nerve to ask, Bobby who? Bobby Duvall? Bobby Redford? Bobby De Niro?" Tally said.Īccording to Empire, Hackman decided to play Crawford, with John Hurt as Lecter and Michelle Pfeifferplaying FBI trainee Clarice Starling. Paradigm agent Robert Bookman, who brokered Harris' movie deals, told Deadline in 2016 that Hackman wanted to direct the movie and play Lecter, but Tally remembered the actor not being sure about being able to do both, thinking maybe he'd instead play FBI Agent Jack Crawford, head of the Behavioral Sciences department. "As I read it, the movie was clicking in my mind." "It's one of the most cinematic books I've ever read," the French Connection star said when he bought the rights with his friend Orion executive Arthur Krim, according to a story in Empire magazine's June 1991 issue. Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Imagesģ. Tally had to make his pitch to Oscar winner Gene Hackman, who was also writing a treatment for it as he was reading it, he was so enraptured by the story.
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