John Wick (2014) and It Follows (2014)

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Film History, Tv & Film

4.9 • 813 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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In this episode of Film Stories with Simon Brew, two modestly-costed movies from 2014 that turned out to be really rather successful. Writer Derek Kolstad had got his first screen credit on a Dolph Lundgren-headlined movie. And he had a plan for a slimmed down action movie, with a 75-year old lead character. Things changed though when a man called Keanu Reeves got interested in it. With It Follows, writer/director David Robert Mitchell had actually planned to do a different movie, until it became clear that it'd be easier to get his horror project funded. But it was still low budget enough to give him absolute control over how he wanted to shoot it... Find Simon on Twitter at @simonbrew, and the podcast can be found at @filmstories Support this podcast: www.patreon.com/simonbrew. Find our print magazines at store.filmstories.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.1	Hello, this is Simon Brew.
0:32.7	I'm the editor of Film Stories magazine and a very warm welcome to the Film Stories podcast.
0:38.1	We're talking about, well, a right nobody this episode.
0:42.4	That nobody is John Wake.
0:47.8	Come with me.
0:50.0	And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
0:53.3	And movies. Mov movies that had stories.
0:56.2	That the story just sucks a man.
0:58.6	This is just the beginning.
1:01.2	We would be honored if you would join us.
1:08.0	Hello and a very warm welcome to Film Stories with Simon Brew. I am Simon Brew as always. That's
1:13.8	absolutely everything you need to know about me. The aim of the podcast though, well, it's given away
1:18.2	in the title. I'm here to talk off the stories of film and I tend to talk about production stories,
1:23.1	marketing stories, development stories, release stories, all those ingredients really that go towards making
1:28.0	the films that we know and love, just that the films that we know and, well, sometimes love.
1:33.3	The films I tend to cover on this podcast have more of a mainstream leaning to them than anything else.
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