The Fisher King and The Grey take centre stage in this podcast episode – two films where audiences might just have been expecting something different.
Two movies here where audiences went in expecting one thing, and might just have got another. 1991’s The Fisher King though for a time was going to be a Disney movie, before the studio decided it was too dark. Directors such as Steven Spielberg and James Cameron were mentioned, before Terry Gilliam – coming off the back of a commercial flop – decided to break all three of his conditions for taking on a film.
Director Joe Carnahan meanwhile was coming off his big studio movie – The A-Team – when he decided he wanted to pivot to something smaller. He chose The Grey, a film he developed, and which would be sold off the back of imagery of Liam Neeson getting ready to punch a wolf. That, though, wasn’t the full picture…
Stories of both are told in this episode.
