In conversation with Jan De Bont - Flatliners, Die Hard, Speed, Twister, Black Rain, The Hunt For Red October, Roar and more

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Film History, Tv & Film

4.9 • 813 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

In a special episode of Film Stories, Simon chats to Jan De Bont about his extensive movie career. They chat about his work as cinematographer on movies as varied as Die Hard, Flatliners, The Hunt For Red October and Black Rain. They chat too about De Bont nearly having his face fully ripped off by a wild animal while shooting Roar. And then there's his work as a director, specifically Speed and Twister. Flatliners has just been released by Arrow on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray disc, and is available now. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.3	Hello, this is Simon Brew. I'm the editor of Film Stories magazine and a very warm welcome to a special
0:36.3	episode of the film stories podcast sorry
0:39.3	about that uh i literally had to fly in from outer space come with me and i show you how deep the rabbit
0:47.3	hole goes and movies movies that had stories that the story just sucks a man. This is just the beginning.
0:56.5	We would be honored if you would join us.
1:03.4	Hello and a very warm welcome to film stories with Simon Brew.
1:07.3	I am Simon Brew.
1:08.3	As always, that's absolutely everything you need to know about me.
1:11.4	The aim of the podcast though is given away in its title, I'm here to talk of the stories of film.
1:16.2	And I tend to talk about development stories, marketing stories, release stories, production stories,
1:20.7	all those ingredients that go to make the films that we know and sometimes love, just that the
1:25.2	films that we know and sometimes love. Now, the films I tend to
1:28.7	cover on this podcast lean more towards the mainstream than anything else. They're films I'm
1:32.6	interested in or invested in to some degree. I try not to punch down. I try not to do snark. This
1:38.0	podcast is a celebration of cinema and appreciation of how hard films are to make and gratitude
1:43.3	that they somehow make it over the
1:45.2	line and onto our screens.
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