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Juan M. Silva ’88 and Academy Award-winning actor Benicio Del Toro collected iguanas and South American alligators while growing up in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Friends since childhood, Silva and Del Toro have abandoned reptiles and are now teaming up to make a movie, slated for release...
...upcoming weeks, Silva, who is a lecturer on history and literature, will begin writing the script to a remake of the 1974 Sam Peckinpah film Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia in which Del Toro will star...
Parts of the plot will remain the same. A powerful man discovers that Alfredo Garcia has impregnated his daughter, and he wants Garcia’s head. The dirty job falls to the character Del Toro will play. “It becomes a question of conscience, not just action,” Silva says. “The basic plot is like a football game, only with someone’s head instead of a football...
Silva first got into this game when Del Toro recommended him as the man to do the rewrite for director Sam Bayer, but this project is one in a long line of collaborations between Del Toro and Silva. The two attended school together in San Juan and could often be found shooting hoops or watching movies at Del Toro’s house. Silva recalls that Del Toro had an extensive film collection. When Del Toro moved to Pennsylvania in high school they stayed in touch regularly. Since 1992, they have joined forces on several scripts, none of which have...
...Silva fear that his script will be corrupted by Hollywood commercialism. “I’m working with a friend, and he has a good team working with him,” he says. “I’ve been lucky to have Benicio Del Toro as a collaborator. I have learned a lot from...