American Gangster (2007) and Piranha II: The Spawning (1982)

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Tv & Film, Film History

4.9 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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It's not uncommon for films to get through a director or two on their way to the screen. In this episode, that's certainly the case. American Gangster might have ended up on the slate of Ridley Scott, but he was the third or fourth name involved. At one stage, Universal was said to have spent $30m on the film in fact, with no hope of getting a single frame of footage shot. Shooting footage wasn't a problem with the low budget Piranha II: The Spawning, nominally the directorial debut of James Cameron. But Cameron was ejected from the film a week or two into shooting - even if the story goes he managed to sneak into the edit suite... Stories of both are told in this episode... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.2	Hello, this is Simon Brew. I'm the editor of Film Stories magazine and a very warm welcome
0:36.3	to the Film Stories podcast.
0:38.8	Now, lots of you who have been leaving really positive reviews of this podcast, thank you so much.
0:44.8	But here's a quiz question.
0:46.5	What are the four big words that you can use in your own reviews to describe film stories?
0:53.1	Here's the correct answer.
0:55.0	Sleak, fierce, savage, deadly.
1:02.0	Come with me.
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1:08.0	And movies, movies that had stories. That the story just sucks a man. This is just the
1:14.0	beginning. We would be honored if you would join us. Hello and a very warm welcome to film stories with
1:26.5	Simon Brew. I am Simon Brew. As always,
1:29.0	that's everything you need to know about me. The aim of the podcast, though, is given away by the
1:33.0	title. I'm here to talk of the stories of films and I tend to talk about development stories,
1:37.4	production stories, marketing stories, release stories, all those ingredients really that go towards
1:42.2	making the films that we know and sometimes love making the films that we know and sometimes love,
1:44.6	the films that we know and sometimes love.
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