In conversation with Ruben Fleischer | Now You See Me Now You Don't, Gangster Squad, Venom and more

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Tv & Film, Film History

4.9 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Director Ruben Fleischer's latest film is the third in the Now You See Me franchise, entitled Now You See Me Now You Don't. A movie stuck in development for a fair amount of time, it's now in cinemas. In this Film Stories special, Reuben tells the story of how he got involved in the film, in a conversation that also takes in films such as Zombieland, Gangster Squad, Venom, a little bit of Uncharted, and a bit of HTML coding talk as well... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Simon Brew.
0:02.4	I'm the editor of Film Stories magazine
0:04.3	and a very warm welcome to a very special episode
0:07.7	of the Film Stories podcast.
0:10.2	Come with me.
0:12.3	And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
0:15.6	And movies.
0:16.8	Movies that had stories.
0:18.5	That the story just sucks a man.
0:20.9	This is just the beginning.
0:23.5	We would be honored if you would join us.
0:30.3	Hello and a very warm welcome to Film Stories with Simon Brew.
0:34.8	I am Simon Brew.
0:36.0	That's always says absolutely everything you need to know about me.
0:39.0	The aim of the podcast is given away by the title though. I'm here to talk of the stories of films
0:44.1	and I tend to talk about development stories, marketing stories, production stories, release stories,
0:48.6	all the ingredients really that go towards making the films that you know and we know and sometimes
0:53.2	love just that, the films that we know and sometimes know and sometimes love just that the films that
0:54.6	we know and sometimes love. The films I tend to cover on this podcast lean more towards the
0:59.4	mainstream than anything else. They're films I'm interested in or invested in to some degree.
1:04.2	I try not to do snark. I try not to punch down. This podcast is a celebration of cinema
1:08.8	and a real appreciation that somehow, somehow,
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