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dot com and secure your seats today hello this is simon brew i'm the editor of film stories magazine

and a very warm welcome to a very special episode of the film stories podcast

come with me and i show you how deep the rabbit hole goes and movies movies that had stories

that the story just sucks a man this is just the beginning we be honoured if you would join us.

Hello and a very warm welcome to film stories with Simon Brew.

I am Simon Brew as always.

There's absolutely everything you need to know about me.

The aim of the podcast though, well, it's given away in the title really.

I'm here to talk

off the stories of films and I tend to talk about development stories, production stories, marketing

stories, release stories, all those ingredients that go towards making the films that we know and

sometimes love, just that the films that we know and sometimes love. Now the films I cover on the

podcast tend to have a more mainstream leaning than anything else. They're films I'm interested in or invested in to some degree. I try not to do snark and I try

not to punch down. This podcast is a celebration of cinema and very much an appreciation

that films somehow get made. What this episode also is is one of my occasional special

episodes of film stories where I bring in a filmmaking guest to talk about their body of work or their recent release.

And we get a little bit of both in the case of this particular episode because I'm delighted to be joined by James Mangold, the co-writer and the director of the newly released, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny that's just playing in

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