Lethal Weapon 2 (1989), plus Michael Cera

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Tv & Film, Film History

4.9 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

The summer of 1989 gave Warner Bros an enormous box office hit with Batman - but not far behind it came Lethal Weapon 2, a sequel turned around in a couple of years, and bringing back most of the key creatives. Not writer Shane Black, though. His much darker idea for the sequel would be rejected, and the tone would duly shift. Plus, we'd get a lot more Joe Pesci as a result. In the second half of this episode, Michael Cera joins us for a chat. There's his work on Wes Anderson's The Phoenician Scheme for a start, but also, some of the lower-profile independent films he's made, and his own plans to direct. Quite a packed episode, this one... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.8	Amazon offers term time working to their employees, like Anton,
0:07.4	who's home to look after his daughters during their holidays.
0:10.0	Hello!
0:10.8	To him, this is the best sound in the world.
0:17.2	Actually, maybe that's the best sound of all. Now that's term time working.
0:23.6	Offered at Amazon.
0:24.6	10 weeks off guaranteed per year.
0:26.6	Mix of paid holiday and unpaid time off.
0:28.6	Conditions apply.
0:30.6	Every runner knows the moment when everything clicks.
0:33.6	When your legs lock into a rhythm, the aches float away and doubts fade, replaced by a feeling
0:40.3	of euphoria.
0:42.3	It's why you lace up at dawn, why little rain doesn't stop you, why one run turns into a habit.
0:50.3	So next time you go for a run, chase that runs high. Learn more about running and go wild at
0:57.3	puma.com. Hello, this is Simon Brew. I'm the editor of Film Stories magazine and a very warm
1:06.5	welcome to the Film Stories podcast. I'm too old for this.
1:11.5	Come with me.
1:13.7	And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
1:17.0	And movies.
1:18.1	Movies that had stories.
1:19.8	That the story just sucks a man.
1:22.3	This is just the beginning.
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