Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) and Timecop (1994)

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Film History, Tv & Film

4.9 • 813 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Film Stories with Simon Brew, two hit films come under the microscope - but one of them nearly fell apart days before filming was due to begin. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles would become for a long time the most successful independent film of all time in terms of box office returns. Yet none of the major studio would commit to the film, and it'd take a late deal to save the movie. Timecop had a much clearer path the big screen, and this was Jean-Claude Van Damme trying to emulate the success of Arnold Schwarzenegger and cross over into the mainstream. Just don't ask him about the plans for a sequel... 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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0:30.5	Hello.
0:32.0	This is Simon Brew.
0:33.8	I'm the editor of Film Stories magazine.
0:35.8	And a very warm welcome to the film stories podcast.
0:41.0	Come with me.
0:43.6	And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
0:46.6	In movies.
0:47.8	Movies that had stories.
0:49.5	That the story just sucks them in.
0:51.9	This is just the beginning.
0:54.5	We would be honored. We would be honoured if you would join us.
1:01.4	Hello and a very warm welcome to film stories with Simon Brew.
1:05.5	I am Simon Brew.
1:06.4	As always, that's everything you need to know about me.
1:08.7	The aim of the podcast, though, well, the title gives it away. I'm here to talk of the stories of films and I tend to talk about development stories,
1:15.4	marketing stories, release stories, production, stories, financing stories in this case, all those ingredients
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