Martha De Laurentiis

yeah and this was uh one of the first films to be produced at embassy studios which had been purchased by dino de laurentis whose company de laurentis entertainment group produced this feature.

Funnily enough, De Laurentiis' wife, at the time Martha Schumacher, later Martha De Laurentiis, is the producer on this film, and she has produced a couple other Stephen King movies, including Firestarter, Cat's Eye, and Silver Bullet.

Oh, ones we haven't covered yet, so...

Yeah.

hemorrhage.So keeping that trauma in mind, fast-forward a few years to when Thomas Harris writes the sequel, The Silence of the Lambs.

The producers who hold the rights to the Hannibal Lecter character, Dino and Martha De Laurentiis, are so deeply burned by the financial bloodbath of Manhunter that they outright refuse to even read the new manuscript.

They wouldn't even look at it.

Right.

Right, because these weren't amateurs.

Exactly.

Dino and Martha De Laurentiis were titans of the industry.

They knew how to spot a hit.

... to learn that But before we get into Silver Bullet, I do wanna talk a little bit about the production story of this film.

I got my information from the Blu-ray special features, A Little Private Justice, The Wolf Within, Full Moon Fever: The Effects of Silver Bullet, as well as two commentary tracks, one with Martha de Laurentiis and one with Daniel Attias.

Also, director interviews with Cycle of Gore and Midnight Movie Snack, and interviews and articles in Bloody Disgusting, Slashfilm, and Screen Rant.

Very nice.

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Which I'd be like, "What the fuck?" [laughs] Another version is that Martha de Laurentiis, Martha Schumacher at the time, showed Leon's Case to the head of Paramount, the current head of Paramount, a very familiar name to our show, Frank Mancuso.

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