Hannibal (2001) and I, Daniel Blake (2016)

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Film History, Tv & Film

4.9 • 813 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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The podcast is fully back up and running again, and this time, we turn our attention to the return of Hannibal Lecter. 2001's Hannibal was the long-awaited return of Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter to the big screen, following 1991's The Silence Of The Lambs. But the original director didn't return. The original screenwriter didn't return. One of the two Oscar-winning stars didn't return. And a chance meeting in Malta - as Ridley Scott was shooting Gladiator - was what helped push things forward. The gestation of I, Daniel Blake was a little more straightforward, as writer Paul Laverty and director Ken Loach went about their familiar process: this time, though, they'd be making a film with fairly quick ramifications. What's more, casting a lead actor who was just on the verge of jacking it all in... --- Find Simon on Twitter and Bluesky at @simonbrew, and the podcast can be found at @filmstories Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.8	Hello, this is Simon Brew. I'm the editor of Film Stories magazine and a very warm welcome
0:35.4	to the Film Stories podcast. Oh, hang on a second, I've just got a call coming in.
0:40.3	Let me just put it on speaker.
0:41.3	Is this Clarice?
0:43.3	No, it's Simon, your bloody tit.
0:45.3	Come with me.
0:47.3	And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
0:51.3	And movies. Movies that had stories.
0:54.4	That the story just sucks a man.
0:56.9	This is just the beginning.
0:59.4	We would be honored if you would join us.
1:06.4	Hello and a very warm welcome to film stories with Simon Brew.
1:10.4	I am Simon Brew. I always
1:11.6	is all you need to know about me. The aim of the podcast though is as the title gives away, I'm here to
1:15.9	talk off the stories of films and I tend to talk about development stories, marketing stories,
1:19.8	production stories, release stories, all those ingredients that go towards making the films that we know
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