A View To A Kill (1985) and Buster (1988)

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Film History, Tv & Film

4.9 • 813 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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It's back to the 1980s in this episode of the Film Stories podcast, kicking off with one last James Bond 007 adventure for Roger Moore. A View To A Kill - teased at the end of 1983's Octopussy as From A View To A Kill - came together initially with little fuss for a James Bond movie. Roger Moore was quickly invited back. John Glen was asked to direct even before he'd finished the last film. Pinewood Studios was booked. And then the problems: question marks over whether Roger Moore was too old for the role, announcing someone for the villain who turned the part down - and then the 007 stage at Pinewood burning down. 1988's Buster by comparison was a fairly smooth shoot. Phil Collins agreed to take his first lead role, Julie Walters was in the USA for the Oscars when she got the script. But the story of one of the Great Train Robbers came with questions, not least should such a movie be with such a light tone about such a serious subject. Still, it got to the Oscars... Stories of both - and their respective royal premieres too - are told in this episode... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:45.6	Come with me.
0:47.8	And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
0:51.1	In movies, movies that had stories.
0:54.0	That the story just sucks a man. This is just the beginning.
0:59.0	We would be honoured if you would join us.
1:05.9	Hello and a very warm welcome to Film Stories with Simon Brew. I am Simon Brew as always has everything
1:12.4	you need to know about me. The only podcast though, well it's given away in the title. I'm here to talk
1:16.8	off the stories of films and I tend to talk about production stories, development stories,
1:20.6	marketing stories, release stories, all the ingredients really that go towards making the films that we
1:25.0	know and sometimes love, just that the films that we know
1:27.8	and sometimes love. The films I tend to cover on this podcast lead more towards the mainstream
1:32.6	than anything else. They're films I'm interested in or invested in to some degree. Try really hard
1:37.2	not to do snark. I'm trying really hard not to punch down. This podcast is a celebration of
1:41.5	cinema and a real appreciation of just how difficult it is to get a film made.
1:46.4	Each episode, I cover two films and, well, that's all the preamble we need really. Both of this
1:51.7	week's films are going back to the 1980s, and let's do a bit of James Bond. I'm going to play
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