Escape To Victory (1981) and The Bodyguard (1992)

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Tv & Film, Film History

4.9 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In the new episode of Film Stories with Simon Brew, making a football film with actors who can't play football, and a blockbuster movie co-starring someone who'd not acted before. Escape To Victory saw Sylvester Stallone learning to be a goalkeeper and a chunk of Ipswich Town Football Club learning to be actors. With the director of The African Queen watching on. The Bodyguard saw Whitney Houston help Kevin Costner with singing, and Costner helping Houston with acting. It'd result in one of the biggest films of all time. Stories of both are told in this episode. Find Simon on Twitter at @simonbrew, and the podcast can be found at @filmstoriespod. 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, this is Simon Brew.
0:02.0	I'm the editor of Film Stories magazine and a very warm welcome to the Film Stories podcast.
0:07.9	Sorry about that.
0:09.5	I literally had to fly in from outer space.
0:12.3	Come with me.
0:14.5	And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
0:17.8	And movies.
0:18.9	Movies that have stories.
0:20.7	That the story just sucks them in.
0:23.1	This is just the beginning.
0:25.7	We would be honored if you would join us.
0:32.3	Hello and a very warm welcome to Film Stories with Simon Brew.
0:35.9	I am Simon Brew, as always it's all you need to know
0:37.7	about me. The aim of the podcast though, while I'm here as the title suggests, to talk of the
0:42.2	stories and I tend to talk about development stories, production stories, marketing stories,
0:47.2	release stories, all the little bits and bobs really that go to make the films that we know
0:50.9	and sometimes love just that the films that we know and sometimes
0:54.7	love the films i tend to choose this podcast they tend to have a bit of a mainstream leaning to them
1:00.0	really they're films i'm certainly interested in uh i'm not interested in punching down i don't really
1:05.5	do a lot of snark i just use this podcast really to celebrate the fact that films got made. That I think it's
1:13.2	an achievement and a half to get a movie over the line, to get a film finished, to get a film
1:17.0	released. And I'm really looking to champion and celebrate that. I talk about two films in each
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