In conversation with David Zucker | Top Secret, Airplane, The Naked Gun, The Star Of Malta, books, and more

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Tv & Film, Film History

4.9 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

In a very special episode of the Film Stories podcast, writer/producer/director David Zucker joins Simon for a conversation about his work. Amongst the films that come up in the chat? Airplane!, which is shortly getting as we'll hear an unusual director's cut, Top Secret!, the original The Naked Gun trilogy, My Big Fat Important Important (better known as An American Carol), Baseketball and more. Plus: a pair of books, bring excluded from the latest The Naked Gun film, trees, The Star Of Malta and a whole lot more. You can find David Zucker on social media at @TheDavidZucker, and you can find MasterCrash Comedy at www.mastercrash.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:15.1	Hello, this is Simon Brew.
0:17.9	I'm the editor of Film Stories magazine and a very warm welcome to a very special
0:22.7	episode of the film stories podcast. Come with me. And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
0:31.2	And movies. Movies that had stories. This story just sucks a man. This is just the beginning.
0:39.1	We would be honored if you would join us.
0:45.9	Hello and a very warm welcome to Film Stories with Simon Brew.
0:50.5	I am Simon Brew.
0:51.4	That's always says absolutely everything you need to know about me.
0:55.3	The aim of the podcast,
1:00.2	well, it's given away by the title, really. I'm here to talk up the stories of films and I tend to talk about development stories, production stories, marketing stories, release stories, all the
1:04.8	ingredients really that go towards making the films that we know and sometimes love, just that the
1:09.3	films that we know and sometimes love. The that the films that we know and sometimes love.
1:11.9	The films I tend to cover on this podcast, I lean more towards the mainstream than anything else.
1:16.2	There are films I'm interested in or invested in to some degree.
1:19.3	I try not to do snark. I try not to punch down. This podcast is a celebration of cinema
1:24.1	and a real appreciation that somehow, somehow films managed to get made.
1:29.9	Film Stories is also a very proud part of the Film Stories Podcast Network, a network of over 50
1:35.0	shows covering films, TV, gaming. If you just do a search for Film Stories Podcast Network,
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