The Avengers (1998) and Step Brothers (2008)

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Tv & Film, Film History

4.9 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Ah, The Avengers. The 1998 big screen adaptation of the much-loved TV series is a bit of an odd movie, but as Simon discusses in this episode, things weren't quite going to plan at studio level. Not that Warner Bros handled the film particularly well come release time - an infamously late decisiont to avoid a review screening soon backfired. In the case of Step Brothers, the third film together for Adam McKay and Will Ferrell is often cited as their best. Still, the hit comedy has a bit of a story to it - plus the pub quiz fact that McKay shot more footage for Step Brothers than Francis Ford Coppola shot for Apocalypse Now... Stories of both are told in this episode... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.3	Hello, this is Simon Brew. I'm the editor of Film Stories magazine and a very warm welcome
0:36.5	to the Film Stories podcast. In fact, a very warm welcome to the film stories podcast.
0:38.8	In fact, a very warm welcome back. This is the first episode since, well, I decided to take
0:44.3	a summer break in the hope that you'd still all be waiting for me when I got back.
0:48.9	That was a very silly thing to do.
0:52.5	Come with me.
0:54.6	And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
0:58.0	In movies. Movies that had stories.
1:00.8	That the story just sucks a man.
1:03.2	This is just the beginning.
1:05.8	We would be honored if you would join us.
1:12.7	Hello and a very warm welcome to film stories with Simon Brew.
1:17.4	I am Simon Brew as always. There's absolutely everything you need to know about me.
1:21.4	The aim of the podcast though is given away by the title. I'm here to talk of the stories of
1:24.9	films and I tend to talk about development stories, production stories, marketing stories, release stories, all the ingredients really that go towards making the films that we know and sometimes love, just that the films that we know and sometimes love.
1:37.1	The films I tend to cover on this podcast lean more towards the mainstream than anything else.
1:41.4	They're films I'm interested in or invested in to some degree.
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