I Am Legend (2007) and There's Something About Mary (1998)

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Film History, Tv & Film

4.9 • 813 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Film Stories with Simon Brew, two big hit movies - but both of them took at least a decade to make it to the screen. In the case of I Am Legend, the latest take on the story was all ready to go in 1997 with Ridley Scott directing and Arnold Schwarzenegger starring: but not everything went to plan there. And there'd be other attempts that failed before we got the version we got. There's Something About Mary didn't start out as the raunchy comedy it became - but after five years sitting still in development hell, a Writers Guild Of America rule change suddenly worked to its favour. 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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0:30.4	Hello, this is Simon Brew.
0:32.8	I'm the editor of Film Stories magazine and a very warm welcome to the film stories podcast.
0:38.3	No ifs, no buts, well apart from this.
0:41.2	But there's something about Mary that they don't know Mary.
0:51.7	There's just something about Mary
0:54.8	Come with me
0:56.6	And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes
1:00.5	In movies, movies that had stories
1:03.7	That the story just sucks a man
1:06.0	This is just the beginning
1:07.2	There are stories
1:10.4	We would be honored if you would join us.
1:15.7	Hello and a very warm welcome to film stories with Simon Brew.
1:19.7	I am Simon Brew.
1:20.8	As always, that's absolutely everything you need to know about me.
1:23.7	The aim of the podcast though, well, the title gives it away.
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