Last Action Hero (1993) and The Cannonball Run (1981)

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Film History, Tv & Film

4.9 • 813 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In the new episode of Film Stories with Simon Brew, a notorious film of the 1990s, and an early hit of the 1980s. Last Action Hero was Arnold Schwarzenegger's eagerly-awaited first action movie following Terminator 2. It was billed as the big ticket for summer 1993. Things did not go to plan. Burt Reynolds meanwhile vowed to never go faster than 35mph in a movie again following a string of car films. But a cheque making him the most expensive movie star in the world for The Cannonball Run helped change his mind... Stories of both are told in this episode. Find Simon on Twitter at @simonbrew, and the podcast can be found at @filmstoriespod. Support this podcast: www.patreon.com/simonbrew. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Simon Brew. I'm editor of Film Stories magazine and a very warm welcome to the
0:06.2	film stories podcast. Now, I've asked Arnold Schwarzenegger along to introduce the podcast,
0:12.1	as long as he doesn't wait my neighbours up.
0:16.8	Hi. Bloody hell, army, one job! One job! Come with me.
0:22.6	And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
0:26.6	And movies.
0:27.6	Movies that had stories.
0:28.6	That the story just sucks a man.
0:31.6	This is just the beginning.
0:33.6	They're all the stories.
0:35.6	We would be honored if you would join us.
0:41.3	Hello and a very warm welcome to Film Stories with Simon Brew.
0:45.2	I am Simon Brew as always. That's absolutely everything you need to know about me.
0:48.8	The aim of the podcast though given away in the title, I'm here to talk of the stories of film.
0:53.1	And I tend to talk about development stories, production stories, marketing stories, release or all the bits and bobs really
0:57.7	that go to make the films that we know and sometimes love, just that, the films that we know and
1:02.2	sometimes love. Now the films I tend to choose this podcast, they lean more towards the mainstream
1:06.9	than anything else. They're films I'm interested in or invested in to some degree.
1:14.7	I try not to punch down. I try not to do snark. I just want to celebrate the fact that films get made. It's really hard to make them. I want to salute the people who've got them
1:18.5	over the line. Enough preamble. I'm going to crack on with the first of the two films I'm
1:22.9	talking about in this episode. Let's go back to 1993. I'm going to play you a clip from the movie and I'll come to the story
1:29.0	the other side of this.
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