Signs (2002) and The Da Vinci Code (2006)

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Film History, Tv & Film

4.9 • 813 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Film Stories with Simon Brew, a pair of hit movies, with a religious edge to each. Filmmaker M Night Shyamalan admitted he came to Signs off the back of the mixed response to his previous film, Unbreakable. He came up with a project initially for an older actor, that blended two key ideas - and the bidding war in Hollywood for the film was a swift one. There was a bidding war too for the screen rights to Dan Brown's extraordinarily successful book, The Da Vinci Code. At first, there was a chance it could go to TV, but $6m of Sony's money did the job - and a whole lot of controversy was just around the corner... Find Simon on Twitter at @simonbrew, and the podcast can be found at @filmstories Support this podcast: www.patreon.com/simonbrew. Find our print magazines at store.filmstories.co.uk 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	What kind of weekend are you in the mood for?
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0:06.0	Whether that be two days of twists and turns with only murders in the building,
0:11.0	drama and fine dining with The Bear,
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0:27.1	Hello, this is Simon Brew.
0:29.7	I'm the editor of Film Stories magazine.
0:32.0	And usually in this spot, I just do a very brief introduction to the podcast.
0:37.0	However, for once, I found a bit of money in the budget, just to bring Tom Hanks in to give us a few motivational words.
0:45.0	How do we sift truth from belief?
0:49.2	How do we write our own histories personally or culturally?
0:52.5	And thereby define ourselves.
0:56.2	How do we penetrate years centuries of historical distortion to find original truth tonight this will be our quest you're not
1:06.8	wrong tom you know wrong come with me and I show you how deep the rabbit hole
1:13.4	goes and movies movies that had the stories that the story just sucks a man this is just the
1:20.2	beginning we would be honored if if you would join us.
1:33.2	Hello and a very warm welcome to Film Stories with Simon Brew.
1:36.9	I am Simon Brew, as always, that's all you need to know about me.
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