Outbreak (1995) and Predestination (2014)

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Tv & Film, Film History

4.9 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

An article published back in 1992 would spark a bidding war in Hollywood. Nothing unusual there. That article would lead to Ridley Scott, Jodie Foster and Robert Redford signing up for a big, expensive movie - a movie that never got made. And it never got made because of 1995's Outbreak. Three movies meanwhile had failed to come together in a row for filmmakers the Spierig brothers after they scored a hit with Daybreakers. But they had a project in mind, based on a Robert A Heinlein (Starship Troopers) short story. It'd lead to Predestination - but there was the small matter of starting work without securing the rights to the story... The 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.
0:02.5	I'm the editor of Film Stories magazine
0:04.3	and a very warm welcome to the Film Stories podcast.
0:08.2	I'm delighted for this episode of Film Stories
0:10.9	to have brought the gravitas and voice of Morgan Freeman on
0:14.6	just to kind of undersell listening to film stories
0:18.7	and just try and give me a bit of a boost.
0:23.6	Over to you, Morgan. Remember, keep it light. I know that some of us have doubts about what we're about to do.
0:26.6	We'd be less than human if we didn't.
0:29.6	But the fate of the nation, perhaps the world is in our hands.
0:32.6	Oh, that'll do.
0:34.6	Come with me.
0:36.6	And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
0:40.4	And movies.
0:41.5	Movies that had stories.
0:43.2	That the story just sucks a man.
0:45.6	This is just the beginning.
0:48.2	We would be honored if you would join us.
0:55.0	Hello and a very warm welcome to film stories with Simon Brew.
0:59.3	I am Simon Brew as always. That's all you need to know about me.
1:02.4	The aim of the podcast, though, is given away by its title.
1:04.6	I'm here to talk off the stories of films and I tend to talk about development stories,
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