Armageddon (1998) and Misery (1990)

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Tv & Film, Film History

4.9 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In the new episode of Film Stories with Simon Brew, the asteroid movie in a race against time, and the Stephen King adaptation with a casting nightmare. Three similar films were in the race when Disney greenlit Armageddon - but it committed to spending over $100m on the film without a script in place. Actor after actor turned down Misery meanwhile, a film that took over half a year to nail down its two leads - and rewrite a key moment from the source novel too. 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.
0:01.7	I'm the editor of Film Stories magazine and a very warm welcome to the Film Stories podcast.
0:06.6	Come with me.
0:08.8	And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
0:12.1	And movies.
0:13.3	Movies that had stories.
0:14.9	That the story just sucks a man.
0:17.4	This is just the beginning.
0:19.9	They're stories.
0:21.6	We would be honored if you would join us.
0:26.6	Hello and a very warm welcome to film stories with Simon Brew.
0:30.6	I am Simon Brew. As always, that's absolutely everything you need to know about me.
0:34.6	The aim of the podcast though, as the title suggests, I'm here to to talk of the stories of films and I talk about development stories, production stories,
0:41.5	marketing stories, release stories, just all those bits and bobs really that go to make the films
0:46.2	that we know and sometimes love, just that the films that we know and sometimes love.
0:51.4	The films I tend to choose this podcast have more of a mainstream leaning than
0:54.6	anything else there. Films also I have some investment or interest in. I don't see the point
0:59.7	in me sitting here and punching down. I think it's a job and a half just to get a film off the
1:04.2	ground and made. And this podcast really is a celebration of that, warts and all, depending on
1:08.9	just how the film turned out. As it happens, the two films I've
1:12.6	picked for this particular episode, while I'm a big fan of both of them, I think one of those is
1:16.9	slightly more contentious than the other. So I'm going to start with perhaps the more divisive one.
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