Gone Girl (2014) and A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood (2019)

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Film History, Tv & Film

4.9 • 813 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Film Stories with Simon Brew, David Fincher's last movie for over five years, and the challenge in bringing a much-loved man to the big screen. Gillian Flynn's novel Gone Girl was an absolute publishing sensation. But even before it was released, Reese Witherspoon had snapped it up. Gillian Flynn meanwhile was able to strike an unusual deal for her book, that left her in charge of its adaptation. The script approach for the story of Fred Rogers, A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood, went through some fairly dramatic changes. In the end, it'd take nearly a decade to bring to the screen... Stories of both are told in this episode. Find Simon on Twitter at @simonbrew, and the podcast can be found at @filmstoriespod. Support this podcast: 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.
0:02.7	I'm the editor of Film Stories magazine
0:04.3	and a very warm welcome to the Film Stories podcast.
0:07.8	And as a special treat, I'd just like to get this guy to sing us in.
0:12.3	It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood, a beautiful day for a neighbor.
0:17.4	Would you be mine?
0:19.4	Could you be mine?
0:24.6	Please. Would you be mine? Could you be mine? Please won't you be my neighbor?
0:31.6	Come with me.
0:33.6	And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
0:36.6	And movies.
0:38.4	Movies that had stories.
0:40.1	That the story just sucks a man.
0:42.6	This is just the beginning.
0:45.2	They're stories.
0:46.9	We would be honored if you would join us.
0:51.9	Hello and a very warm welcome to film stories with Simon Brew.
0:55.9	I am Simon Brew. As always, that's absolutely everything you need to know about me.
0:59.6	The aim of the podcast though, well, the title gives it away.
1:02.0	I'm here to talk of the stories of films and I tend to talk about development stories, production stories, marketing stories, release stories, all the bits and bobs really that go to make the films that we know and sometimes love, just that, the films that we know and sometimes love.
1:15.7	The films I tend to cover in this podcast have more of a mainstream leaning to them than anything
1:19.6	else. There's certainly films I'm interested in or invested in to some degree. I try not to do
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