Black Adam (2022) and Draft Day (2014)

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Tv & Film, Film History

4.9 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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The plan with the DC Comics character Black Adam was firstly to make him part of the Shazam movie, and then - when Dwayne Johnson signed up for $20m+ plus - to give him his own adventure. Johnson, it seemed, wanted lots of adventures - including a crossover he reportedly lobbied hard for. In the case of 2014's Draft Day, here was a drama where the writing of draft one took a very hurried two weeks. But after initial interest, Paramount Pictures would drop the movie. Things suddenly looked really tricky - until the Black List came along to save the movie... --- Stories of both are told in this episode. Support our print film magazines at https://store.filmstories.co.uk. Thank you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:48.6	Hello and a very warm welcome to Film Stories with Simon Brew.
0:52.9	I am Simon Brew.
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0:55.3	you need to know about me. The aim of the podcast though, well it's given away by the title. I'm here to
0:59.7	talk off the stories of films and I tend to talk about production stories, development stories, marketing
1:04.6	stories, release stories, all those ingredients that go towards making the films that we know and
1:09.5	sometimes love, just that the films that we know and sometimes love.
1:13.9	The films I tend to cover on this podcast, they lead more towards the mainstream than anything else.
1:18.3	They're films I'm interested in or invested in to some degree.
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