Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) and Doctor Who (2010s unmade movie)

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Tv & Film, Film History

4.9 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

There's a time travel theme to this latest episode of Film Stories with Simon Brew, starting with Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. Quite the story behind this, too. The distributor going bankrupt just as the movie was being finished, the year-long delay to its release, the audition that threw Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter together...? There's quite the story behind it all. In the early 2010s too, one interview ignited a whole conversation about a possible Doctor Who movie, around the era when Matt Smith was in the TARDIS. In theory, this would have been made in America, seperate to the TV show that was being put together in Wales. Things, er, went awry... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Simon Brue.
0:14.4	I'm the editor of Film Stories magazine and a very warm welcome to the Film Stories podcast.
0:20.0	Come with me. And I show you how to the film stories podcast. Come with me.
0:22.2	And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
0:25.5	And movies.
0:26.6	Movies that had stories.
0:28.3	That the story just sucks a man.
0:30.7	This is just the beginning.
0:33.3	We would be honored if you would join us.
0:40.3	Hello and a very warm welcome to film stories with Simon Brew.
0:44.5	I am Simon Brew as always. There's absolutely everything you need to know about me.
0:48.5	The aim of the podcast is given away by the title. I'm here to talk of the stories of films
0:52.4	and I tend to talk about development
0:54.2	stories, production stories, marketing stories, release stories, all the ingredients really that go
0:58.7	towards making the films that we know and sometimes love, just that the films that we know
1:03.2	and sometimes love. The films I tend to cover on this podcast, they'll eat more towards the
1:07.7	mainstream than anything else. There are films I'm interested in or invested in to some degree.
1:12.4	I try not to do snark.
1:13.6	I try not to punch down.
1:15.2	This podcast is a celebration of cinema and a real appreciation that somehow, somehow,
1:20.8	films manage to get made.
1:23.4	Film Stories is also a very, very proud part of the Film Stories podcast network,
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