Mars Attacks! (1996) and Legally Blonde (2001)

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Tv & Film, Film History

4.9 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In the latest episode of Film Stories with Simon Brew, a film that struggled against stiff competition, and a genuine surprise hit. Tim Burton's Mars Attacks was wrong-footed when the Independence Day trailer landed. But the film's roots went back a very long way. With Legally Blonde, Reese Witherspoon had been looking for a more commercial film. It took a producer picking up an unsolicited manuscript to put that into motion. Stories of both are discussed in this episode. Find Simon on Twitter at @simonbrew, and the podcast can be found at @filmstoriespod. You can find the Film Stories website here. Support our work at 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.
0:01.7	I'm the editor of Film Stories magazine and a very warm welcome to the Film Stories podcast.
0:07.3	Come with me.
0:09.5	And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
0:12.8	And movies.
0:14.0	Movies that have stories.
0:15.7	That the story just sucks a man.
0:18.1	This is just the beginning.
0:20.7	There are stories. We would be honored if you would join us.
0:27.6	Hello and a very warm welcome to film stories with Simon Brew. I am Simon Brew. That's everything you need to know about me.
0:34.2	The aim of this podcast, I'm here as the title suggests, to talk of the stories
0:38.4	of films. And if it's your first time, I tend to dig into production stories, development
0:42.6	stories, release stories, just any little nuances, nerdy stories in and around getting the kind
0:48.0	of films that we know and sometimes love to just that state, the kind of films that we know
0:51.8	and sometimes love. The films I tend to choose, this podcast have a mainstream leaning to them,
0:56.9	and they also tend to be aligned with films that I'm interested in or invest in at some point,
1:01.7	at some point in some degree.
1:03.9	I don't really do snark, so if you have to snark, this isn't the podcast for you.
1:08.6	Nonetheless, I'm here really to celebrate the movies and just how difficult it is to get a film to the big screen.
1:15.4	The two films I'm going to talk about in this particular podcast, well, I do like them both.
1:20.0	And the first one had a bit of a journey courtesy of another film that suddenly started looming on the horizon.
1:26.9	Let me play you a clip and I'll pick up the story the other side of this.
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