Rain Man (1988) and Michael Flatley's Blackbird (2022)

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Tv & Film, Film History

4.9 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

The film Rain Man became a huge box office hit at the end if 1988, and an Oscar-winner in 1989. Yet here was a movie that went through the hands of at least three directors who didn't make it, including Steven Spielberg, who was attached for nearly half a year. But Barry Levinson did make the film - and he was able to take advantage of a situation that gave him a surprising amount of control. Michael Flatley meanwhile had seemingly total control over his passion project, Blackbird. He wrote, directed, produced and starred in the movie, which debuted in 2018 - but then seemed to disappear. The stories of both films are told in this episode... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.1	Hello, I'd like to tell you that my name's Simon Brew.
0:34.4	However,
0:36.3	who I am is none of your concern. And what Iam is none of your concern.
0:38.3	And what I do is out of your control.
0:43.3	This is film stories.
0:46.3	Come with me.
0:48.3	And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
0:52.3	And movies. Mov movies that had stories.
0:55.0	That the story just sucks a man.
0:58.0	This is just the beginning.
1:00.0	We would be honored if you would join us.
1:06.0	Hello and a very warm welcome to film stories with Simon Brew.
1:11.8	I am Simon Brew as always as everything you need to know about me.
1:14.9	The aim of the podcast though is given away by the title.
1:17.7	I'm here to talk of the stories of films and I tend to talk about development stories, production stories, marketing stories, release stories.
1:24.4	All those ingredients really that go towards making the films that we know and sometimes
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