Hello, this is Simon Brew. I'm the editor of Film Stories magazine and a very warm welcome to a special episode of the Film Stories podcast.

Sorry about that. I literally had to fly in from outer space.

Come with me.

And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.

And movies. Movies that have stories.

That the story just sucks a man.

This is just the beginning.

We would be honored if you would join us.

Hello and a very warm welcome to film stories with Simon Brew.

I am Simon Brew.

As always, that's all you need to know about me. The aim of the podcast, though Brew. I am Simon Brew as always. That's

all you need to know about me. The aim of the podcast though is I'm here to talk of. The title gives

it away the stories of films and I tend to talk about development stories, production stories,

release stories, marketing stories, any of the bits and bobs that go to make the films that we know

and sometimes love, just that the films that we know and sometimes love.

What you've chanced upon here is one of my special episodes where I'm joined by a special guest to talk about their films. In this case, a film coming out and we dig back into a bit of back

catalogue as well. So the guest this time is Director Simon West, who's behind the new release now on DVD and Blu-ray Skyfire,

which is a really ambitious Chinese action movie, written by Weibo and Sydney King, starring Zuku

Wang, Hannah Quinlivan and Mighty Hello to Jason Isaacs.

Now what really interested me about this was the fact that it's directed by

Simon West and Simon West is better known for the films that he made in Hollywood.

His directorial debut was a small independent movie by the name of Conair. He went on to do

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