Broken Arrow (1996) and Sleeping With The Enemy (1991)

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Film History, Tv & Film

4.9 • 813 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Film Stories with Simon Brew, two films that benefitted from surges in popularity for their leading actors. The action movie Broken Arrow would ultimately end up in the hands of director John Woo, his second Hollywood feature. John Travolta led the cast. And oddly, it all came together in the way it did thanks to Free Willy 2. Julia Roberts had already shot Pretty Woman and Flatliners by the time she was signed up for 1991 thriller Sleeping With The Enemy. Sean Connery and Kim Basinger had originally been linked - but 20th Century Fox would end up with one hell of a deal when Roberts signed up. Stories of both are told in this episode. Find Simon on Twitter at @simonbrew, and the podcast can be found at @filmstoriespod. Support this podcast: 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.
0:03.0	I'm the editor of Film Stories magazine and a very warm welcome to the latest episode of the Film Stories podcast.
0:14.0	Come with me.
0:16.0	And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
0:19.0	And movies.
0:22.2	Movies that had stories.
0:24.7	That the story just sucks a man.
0:25.8	This is just the beginning.
0:32.0	We would be honored if you would join us.
0:39.8	Hello and a very warm welcome to film stories with Simon Brew. I am Simon Brew as always. That's absolutely everything you need to know about me. The aim of the podcast though is what's given away by the
0:44.6	title. I'm here to talk of the stories of films and I tend to talk about development stories, production
0:49.0	stories, marketing stories, release stories, all those bits and bobs really that go to make the
0:53.0	films that we know and sometimes love, just that the films that we know and sometimes love. The films I tend to choose
0:59.2	this podcast have more of a mainstream leaning to them than anything else. There are films I'm
1:03.2	interested in or invested in to some degree. I try not to punch down. I try not to do snark.
1:08.3	This podcast is very much a celebration of cinema. It's an
1:11.4	acknowledgement of how hard it is to make films and appreciation that they do actually somehow,
1:16.7	by hook or by crook, get made. Without further ado, and with no more preamble, I'm just going to
1:22.2	get straight in. I'm going to talk about the first of the two movies I'm discussing in this
1:25.8	episode of film stories. And for that, I'm going back to 1996.
1:29.6	Just going to play you an abruptly edited first part of the trailer for the film.
1:33.9	And I'll come to the story, the other side of this.
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