Brave

Brave is a 1994 musical film directed by Richard Stanley and based on the 1994 concept album Brave by English progressive rock band Marillion. History and production In 1994, Marillion released their seventh studio album Brave. A concept album inspired by a news story singer/lyricist Steve Hogarth had heard about an amnesiac girl found wandering the Severn Bridge, the album follows a fictional account of the girl's life and the events that led her there. After the release of the album, Marillion expressed a desire to create a video out of the album's concept in a manner comparable to Pink Floyd's The Wall. Cult film director Richard Stanley, intrigued by the concept, agreed to sign on as the project's director. He disassociates himself from the film. Mark Kelly said in an interview 2013: "It took me to a website that had an interview with Richard Stanley, who was the director of our Brave movie. I didn’t know this, but apparently he basically said, “I disown that piece of work because they took what was a short piece of film and turned it into something much longer.” I suppose there is some truth in that, in the sense that he was working with a very small budget – I say “small budget”, it was about £100k – to try to make a movie that covered 70 minutes, which is the Brave album. It was more than the budget could cope with, if you know what I mean. But anyway, I think working with Richard Stanley is probably the closest we’ve ever come to devil’s music, he’s definitely got a bit of the devil in him, cos he’s made some really dark films." Kelly said to Dave Everley in Classic Rock Magazine: "It wasn’t a good film to be honest. I'm not blaming Stanley, because the budget he had to work with was minuscule. It could have worked really well with him making that movie. It just didn't."