Cop Land (1997) and Junior (1994)

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Film History, Tv & Film

4.9 • 813 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

The impact of Pulp Fiction's success in the mid-1990s meant that ensemble films based on scripts from relatively inexperienced writer/directors were on the radar of Hollywood. Step forward James Mangold's Cop Land, which was a quick beneficiary. After an attempt to get John Travolta to star in the film failed, and incredible cast - led by Sylvester Stallone - started to come together. But had Pulp Fiction unfairly changed the expectation of what Cop Land was to be? And that's before Mangold and Harvey Weinstein clashed over the film's edit. 1994's Junior was much calmer - and much quicker. Filming began just months before the movie's release, with Arnold Schwarzenegger's box office fortunes dampened following the previous year's Last Action Hero. But others had turned the film down before Arnie got to it - in one case, for religious reasons... Stories of both films are told in this episode... --- Film Stories print magazines can be found at store.filmstories.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by SimpliSafe.
0:03.2	With the evenings getting darker earlier, it's time to upgrade your home security.
0:07.5	SimplySafe systems start from less than £200, with simple and fast DIY setup and no long-term contracts.
0:13.9	Plus, with the pro-premium plan, police will be alerted of a break-in and you'll get unlimited private guard response.
0:20.0	Visit Simplysafe.co.uk slash podcast for
0:22.9	free shipping plus a risk-free 60-day trial. There's no safe like simply safe. Tise and C's apply.
0:30.3	Hello, this is Simon Brew. I'm the editor of Film Stories magazine and a very warm welcome
0:36.0	to the Film Stories podcast. I'm delighted to say that
0:40.0	I'm joined right at the start by Arnold Schwarzenegger who's decided to leave his own personal
0:45.7	review of the podcast and deliver it in person. It's impossible, it's not natural and I'm not
0:52.5	interested. Come with me.
0:55.0	And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
0:58.0	And movies, movies that had stories.
1:01.0	That the story just sucks a man.
1:04.0	This is just the beginning.
1:05.0	We would be honored if you would join us hello and a very warm welcome to film stories with
1:16.6	simon brew i am simon brew but as always that's absolutely everything you need to know about me the aim of the
1:22.4	podcast though always given away in the title i'm here to talk off the stories of films and i tend to
1:27.3	talk about production stories development stories and I tend to talk about
1:27.7	production stories, development stories, release stories, marketing stories, all the ingredients really
1:32.2	that go towards making the films that we know and sometimes love. Just that, the films that we know
1:36.9	and sometimes love. The films I tend to cover on this podcast, they lean more towards the mainstream
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Simon Brew, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Simon Brew and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.