I, Robot (2004) and For Love Of The Game (1999)

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Film History, Tv & Film

4.9 • 813 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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In this episode of Film Stories with Simon Brew, a massive hit sci-fi movie that came from smaller origins, and a baseball film that, well, hit problems. The story of I, Robot the movie - in theory based on the work of Isaac Asimov - started with an indie script that was set effectively in one room. But over time, the film escalated, at one stage attracting Arnold Schwarzenegger. Still, when it got made, there was a disagreement ahead... There was a hell of a disagreement on 1999's baseball movie For Love Of The Game too, regarded as the forgotten Kevin Costner baseball movie. Directed by Sam Raimi, things were going find - right up until very different views on the final cut of the film... --- Find Simon on Twitter at @simonbrew, and the podcast can be found at @filmstories Support this podcast: www.patreon.com/simonbrew. Find our print magazines at store.filmstories.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.5	stories magazine and a very warm welcome to the film stories podcast now just to jean me up for
0:39.9	the episode i brought in a motivational talk just for me from will smith go on will get me in the mood
0:46.2	for this human beings have dreams even dogs have dreams but not you you are just a machine
0:53.6	an imitation of life Even dogs have dreams, but not you. You are just a machine.
0:56.2	An imitation of life.
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1:01.7	Come with me.
1:05.5	And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
1:08.7	And movies. Movies that had stories.
1:11.6	That the story just sucks a man. This is just the beginning.
1:12.6	We would be honored if you would join us.
1:20.6	Hello and a very warm welcome to Film Stories with Simon Brew.
1:24.6	I am Simon Brew as always that's absolutely everything you need to know about me.
1:29.0	The aim of the podcast though, well, to give me away in the title really. I'm here to talk off the
1:32.7	stories of films and I tend to talk about development stories, production stories, marketing
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