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

Come with me.

And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.

In movies. Movies that had stories.

The story just sucks a man.

This is just the beginning.

There are stories. We would beoured 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 absolutely everything you need to know about me.

For those of you coming to this podcast for the first time, we're here fairly obviously to talk about movies, but it's the stories of films I like to get

into, the production stories, development stories, behind the scenes stuff. The tales, the stories,

the little moments that go to make the films we know and sometimes love, just that, those

films that we know and sometimes love. The films I tend to choose this podcast

have a fairly mainstream leaning as a rule. They also tend to be films that I'm interested in

or quite like. I'm not very good at Snark really. And the two films I'm going to talk about in

this episode, both of them were sizable hits. Both them have problems to varying degrees. But there's still got merits and there are, in my mind, anyway, some pretty interesting stories behind them.

So I'll crack on with the first. We're going to go back to 1998. I'm just going to play you a little segment from the trailer from it. And then we'll get to the story the other side of this.

A few minutes ago, the United States ambassadors

to every country in the world told the leaders of those nations what I'm about to tell you.

Last summer, two comets were discovered that are on a collision course with Earth. Oh my God.

The smaller comet will hit first. We now have the details creating a tidal wave

over 3,000 feet high. The larger comet is the size of New York City. 500 billion tons. If it can't

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