Jurassic Park (1993) and Booksmart (2019)

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Tv & Film, Film History

4.9 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

The behind the scenes stories of two films some time in the making come together in this episode, starting with 1993's Jurassic Park. A film made at a point when Steven Spielberg's box office touch was being questioned. A movie that, had a battle for the rights gone the other way, could have been made by one of Tim Burton, Joe Dante or Richard Donner. As it was, Universal and Spielberg made the movie, and the Arnold Schwarzenegger-headlined Last Action Hero was set to go head-to-head with it. 2019's Booksmart meanwhile took ten years to get made, even though its budget was well under $10m. First time director Olivia Wilde had quite the pitch to earn the job behind the camera - but then had a battle to get audiences to the movie once she'd made it. Stories of both are told in this episode... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Simon Brew.
0:02.9	I'm editor of Film Stories magazine and a very warm welcome to the Film Stories podcast.
0:08.5	I'm delighted to say I've just given a load of episodes of this to Jeff Goldblum to take a look at
0:13.9	and he's about to give me his opinion on them right now.
0:18.2	That is one big pile of shit.
0:19.4	Come with me.
0:24.6	And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. And movies, movies that had stories.
0:27.6	That the story just sucks a man.
0:29.6	This is just the beginning.
0:31.6	We would be honored if you would join us.
0:45.8	Thanks Geoff. 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
0:49.8	though is given away by its title. I'm here to talk of the stories of films and I tend to
0:53.7	talk about development stories, production stories, marketing stories, release stories, all those ingredients
0:58.5	really that go towards making the films that we know and sometimes love, just that the films
1:02.9	that we know and sometimes love. The films I tend to cover on this podcast, they lead more towards
1:08.2	the mainstream than anything else. They're films I'm interested in or invested in to some degree. I try not to do snark. I try not to punch down. This podcast is a celebration of cinema and a real appreciation that somehow, somehow films managed to get made. Each regular episode of film stories of which this is one, I tell the stories of two different
1:28.3	movies and I'm about to get into those in a second. This podcast is part of the film stories
1:33.1	podcast network, a network of 30, 40 shows covering films, TV, games. We just launched another show
1:40.8	called At the Movies in the Nauties going through the films of the 2000s.
1:45.2	If you just search for Film Stories Podcast Network or come along to the filmstories website,
1:49.2	Filmstories.com.com.
1:49.8	That's where you can find more details.
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