In conversation with Yvett Merino (producer) and Jared Bush (director, chief creative officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios)

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Tv & Film, Film History

4.9 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In a very special episode of the Film Stories podcast, Simon is joined by two of the team behind Disney's new animated movie, Zootropolis. There's producer Yvett Merino, an Oscar-winner for Encanto, who came to Zootropolis 2 hot off the heels of Moana 2. And then writer/director Jared Bush returns to the podcast, for what's becoming a very welcome annual check in with the chief creative officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios. The conversation covers the new Zootropolis/Zootopia film, a four minute sequence that got cut out of the film, a dog with a dodgy tummy, and a whole lot more... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Have you ever wondered what a sandwich sounds like?
0:04.2	Not much to it, is there?
0:06.2	Unless, of course, it's a Walker's sandwich.
0:10.9	Mmm, that is good.
0:12.9	Now that's what Asani should sound like.
0:15.8	Go all crisp in with walkers.
0:19.0	Delicious.
0:20.2	Hello, this is simon brew
0:22.1	i'm the editor of film stories magazine
0:24.7	and a very warm welcome to a very special episode
0:28.3	of the film stories podcast
0:30.3	come with me
0:31.9	and i show you how deep the rabbit hole goes
0:35.7	and movies movies that had stories.
0:39.1	That the story just sucks a man.
0:41.5	This is just the beginning.
0:44.1	We would be honored if you would join us.
0:50.9	Hello and a very warm welcome to film stories with Simon Brew. I am Simon Brew as always
0:57.6	is absolutely everything you need to know about me. The aim of the podcast, which is given away by the
1:02.2	title. I'm here to talk off the stories of films and I tend to talk about development stories,
1:06.8	production stories, marketing stories, release stories, all the ingredients really that go towards making
1:11.4	the films that we know and sometimes love, just that the films that we know and sometimes love.
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