Episode 100: Dances With Wolves (1990) and Cats (2019)

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Tv & Film, Film History

4.9 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Film Stories with Simon Brew hits its 100th episode, with the stories of two hugely difficult films to make. Kevin Costner turned down major roles and gambled his career to make Dances With Wolves - and yet in spite of his star power, no Hollywood major would touch it. There have been two attempts to make Cats, meanwhile, and the latter attempt proved to be an insane, unwinnable race against time. Stories of both are discussed in this episode. Find Simon on Twitter at @simonbrew, and the podcast can be found at @filmstoriespod. You can find the Film Stories website here. Support our work at 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, my name's Simon Brew. I'm the editor of Film Stories magazine, and I can't believe it myself, but welcome to episode 100 of the Film Stories podcast.
0:10.8	Come with me.
0:13.0	And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
0:16.3	And movies. Movies. Movies that had stories.
0:19.2	That the story just sucks a man.
0:21.6	This is just the beginning.
0:24.2	We would be honored if you would join us.
0:30.9	Hello and a very warm welcome to Film Stories with Simon Brew.
0:34.6	I am Simon Brew and that's everything you need to know about me. The aim of
0:38.2	the podcast though, well, I'm here again to talk of the stories of films. I talk about production
0:44.0	stories, development stories, behind the scenes stories, the stories that go and make the films that
0:48.8	we know and sometimes love and sometimes don't just that. The films that we know, sometimes love,
0:53.4	sometimes don't. I don't do sn we love, sometimes love, sometimes don't.
0:54.9	I don't do snark, so if you're looking for a snarky podcast, I'm not it.
0:59.2	But what I do is celebrate movies and how difficult they are to make.
1:03.0	And for this 100th episode, what I wanted to do is contrast two films.
1:07.0	Both took an enormous amount of human effort to make.
1:10.0	Both had very different fates, but both had compelling stories at the heart of them.
1:14.9	So enough waffle, enough preamble. I'm going to play you a clip from the first of the two films and we're going to go back to 1990.
1:22.6	All right, let's unload the wagon.
1:26.4	What? What? leave it all here?
1:29.3	I'm staying too.
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