Mission: Impossible III (2006) and The Birdcage (1996)

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Film History, Tv & Film

4.9 • 813 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Film Stories with Simon Brew, two movies that hit at the box office - but it didn't stop one of them being regarded a commercial disappointment. 2006's Mission: Impossible III went though a range of directors before Tom Cruise settled on giving JJ Abrams his feature directorial debut. But that decision brought with it delays, and the film's aftermath would see Cruise's deal with Paramount come to an end (temporarily). The Birdcage meanwhile landed on Oscar-winner Mike Nichols' plate at a point where people were beginning to feel his hit movie days were behind him. Nichols though would turn a Harrison Ford movie down in order to take this one on - and to work again with Elaine May. 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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0:24.8	dot com and secure your seats today hello this is simen brough i'm the editor of film stories magazine and this
0:34.5	is the film stories podcast.
0:43.7	Come with me.
0:47.6	And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
0:48.9	And movies.
0:50.7	Movies that had stories.
0:53.2	That the story just sucks a man.
0:54.3	This is just the beginning. Film stories. That the story just sucks some in. This is just the beginning.
1:00.6	We would be honored if you would join us.
1:06.5	Hello and a very warm welcome to film stories with Simon Brew.
1:08.0	I am Simon Brew as always.
1:09.2	That's all you need to know about me.
1:28.0	The aim of the podcast though, well, the title gives it away. I'm here to talk off the stories of films and I tend to talk about development stories, production stories, marketing stories, release stories, all the ingredients that go to make the films that we know and sometimes love, just that the films that we know and sometimes love. The films I tend to cover on this podcast have more of a mainstream leaning to them than anything else. There are films I'm interested in or invested in to some
1:32.0	degree. I do try hard not to do snark and not to punch down. This podcast is an appreciation
1:37.5	of cinema, of basically me respecting how hard it is to make a film and just a celebration of the fact that films somehow somehow managed to get made.
1:48.9	But that's enough preambo. I just want to get on with it if that's all right.
1:52.1	I'm going to start by playing you a clip from the first of the two films I'm talking about in this episode of film stories.
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