Executive Decision (1996) and Men In Black 3 (2012)

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Tv & Film, Film History

4.9 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In the new episode of Film Stories with Simon Brew, two hit movies with two very different stories behind them. Warner Bros traded Forrest Gump to get its hands on Executive Decision. But things were a little tense on set, not least with Steven Seagal. As for Men In Black 3? Well, yikes. A film that cost a quarter of a billion dollars to make, with a three month shutdown in the midst of filming. It's hard to know where to begin. 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.
0:01.7	I'm the editor of Film Stories magazine and a very warm welcome to the Film Stories podcast.
0:06.9	Come with me.
0:09.0	And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
0:12.4	In movies, movies that had stories.
0:15.2	That the story just sucks a man.
0:17.6	This is just the beginning.
0:20.2	Film stories. We would be honored if you would join us.
0:27.0	Hello and a very warm welcome to film stories with Simon Brew.
0:30.4	I am Simon Brew.
0:31.4	As always, that's all you need to know about me.
0:33.7	The aim of the podcast is, well, it's given away in the title, really.
0:37.0	I'm here to talk of the stories of films.
0:39.3	And what I tend to talk about are development stories, production stories, behind the scene stories, marketing stories, promotion, or any little story really that I find that goes to make the films that we know and sometimes love, just that the films that we know and sometimes love.
0:53.3	The films I tend to cover on this podcast have
0:55.3	more of a mainstream leaning really they tend to be films i'm invested or interested in to some degree
1:00.5	i don't have to like them all i don't particularly like one of the films which i'm going to talk about
1:04.3	in this episode for instance but i'm not going to do snark there's lots of snark out there i'm not
1:08.4	being snarky about people are good at snarkiness uh i'm just not that great at it and I just like waffling about films.
1:15.6	I also think it's such a tremendous achievement just to get a film made.
1:18.6	I kind of want to celebrate that.
1:20.6	And so I'm going to start this episode with the first of the two films I'm going to chat about.
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