Apollo 13 (1995) and Breakdown (1997)

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Tv & Film, Film History

4.9 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In the new episode of Film Stories with Simon Brew, how Apollo 13 originally had Kevin Costner in mind, and the thriller that came out of a collapsed Stephen King movie. Apollo 13 was made at a point where practical filmmaking was more logical than relying too much on visual effects. And for the cast, that meant 13 days of particularly intense filming. Breakdown came out of a film that didn't happen, and was equally practical. But that didn't stop the studio wanting to add ten minutes to the start of the film. Stories of both are told in this episode. Find Simon on Twitter at @simonbrew, and the podcast can be found at @filmstoriespod. Support our work at www.patreon.com/simonbrew. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Simon Brew. I'm the editor of Film Stories magazine and a very warm welcome to the film stories podcast.
0:07.5	We're just getting things up and running here, so I'm going to hand over to the grand crew to get us started.
0:13.4	We're go, flight.
0:17.0	Launch control, this is Houston. We are go for launch.
0:20.5	Roger to that, Houston.
0:22.3	Come with me.
0:24.5	And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
0:27.8	And movies. Movies that had stories.
0:30.6	That the story just sucks a man.
0:33.1	This is just the beginning.
0:35.6	We would be honored if you would join us.
0:42.4	Hello and a very warm welcome to film stories with Simon Brew.
0:46.2	I am Simon Brew.
0:47.1	As always, that's absolutely everything you need to know about me.
0:49.9	The aim of the podcast though, well, I'm here to talk, title gives it away really, of the
0:53.9	stories of film and I tend to talk about development stories, production stories, marketing
0:57.8	stories, release stories, all the bits and bobs, really, that go to make the films that we know
1:01.9	and sometimes love, just that the films that we know and sometimes love. The films I tend to
1:07.0	choose this podcast, have more of a mainstream leaning to them than anything else.
1:11.0	The films I'm interested in or invested in to some degree, I try not to punch down, I try not
1:15.9	to do snark, I just celebrate the fact that movies are made. It's really hard to do and I just
1:20.4	want to salute those who manage to do it. Without further ado, I'm going to crack on with the
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