Roald Dahl's Matilda The Musical (2022), with director Matthew Warchus and screenwriter Dennis Kelly

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Film History, Tv & Film

4.9 • 813 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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In a special episode of the Film Stories podcast, Simon is joined by director Matthew Warchus and screenwriter Dennis Kelly, with the focus primarily being 2022's Roald Dahl's Matilda The Musical. In their conversation, they talk about taking the hugely success musical from stage to screen, and how brutal they had to be as they did so. They chat too the many, many drafts of the script, the songs that were filmed but which didn't make the finally cut, and a bit of CG involving a giraffe. You also get little mentions of both Pride and Utopia too, and the pair both end up with what their clickbait news stories would be... 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	Are you a smart booker or a silly booker?
0:07.4	Smart bookers get access to a three airport lounge by booking a five-star holiday with On the Beach.
0:13.8	Silly bookers?
0:14.8	Well, enjoy those cues at the bar.
0:17.1	Stop booking around and visit on the beach.com.
0:22.2	Conditions apply.
0:26.4	Seven night minimum stay outbound only from selected airports for up to six people at all protected.
0:31.8	Hello, this is Simon Brew.
0:40.3	I'm the editor of Film Stories magazine and a very warm welcome to a special episode of the film stories podcast come with me and i show you how deep the rabbit hole goes and movies movies that had stories and the story
0:48.3	just sucks a man this is just the beginning we would be honored if you would join us.
0:59.4	Hello and a very warm welcome to film stories with Simon Brew.
1:03.9	I am Simon Brew.
1:04.8	As always, that's absolutely everything you need to know about me.
1:07.8	The aim of the podcast, which is a bit echoy this time because I'm on location
1:11.4	for this one, sounds exciting, is as the title suggests, to talk of the stories of film.
1:16.8	And I tend to talk about development stories, production stories, marketing stories, release
1:20.3	stories, all those ingredients that go to make the films that we know and sometimes love,
1:24.6	just that the films that we know and sometimes love. The films I tend to
1:28.8	cover on this podcast have more of a mainstream leaning to them than anything else. The films I'm
1:33.1	interested in or invested in to some degree. I try not to do snark. I try not to punch down.
1:38.0	This podcast is very much a celebration of cinema and an appreciation of just how hard it is
1:43.6	to make a film. As I said at the start,
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