The Fisher King (1991) and The Grey (2011)

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Tv & Film, Film History

4.9 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Two movies here where audiences went in expecting one thing, and might just have got another. 1991's The Fisher King though for a time was going to be a Disney movie, before the studio decided it was too dark. Directors such as Steven Spielberg and James Cameron were mentioned, before Terry Gilliam - coming off the back of a commercial flop - decided to break all three of his conditions for taking on a film. Director Joe Carnahan meanwhile was coming off his big studio movie - The A-Team - when he decided he wanted to pivot to something smaller. He chose The Grey, a film he developed, and which would be sold off the back of imagery of Liam Neeson getting ready to punch a wolf. That, though, wasn't the full picture... Stories of both are told in this episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.1	Hello, this is Simon Brew. I'm the editor of Film Stories magazine and a very warm welcome
0:36.1	to the Film Stories podcast. We'll get started
0:39.0	just as as as soon as I let this animal in.
0:45.2	Come with me. And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
0:50.6	And movies. Movies that had stories.
0:53.3	That the story just sucks a man.
0:56.0	This is just the beginning.
0:58.6	We would be honored if you would join us.
1:05.4	Hello and a very warm welcome to Film Stories with Simon Brew.
1:10.2	I am Simon Brew. always. That's absolutely
1:12.0	everything you need to know about me. The aim of the podcast though is given away by the title.
1:16.4	I'm here to talk of the stories of films and I tend to talk about development stories,
1:20.4	production stories, marketing stories, release stories, all the ingredients really that go towards
1:25.0	making the films that we know and sometimes love, just that the films that we know and sometimes love,
1:30.4	just that the films that we know and sometimes love.
1:35.1	The films I tend to cover on this podcast, they leave more towards the mainstream than anything.
1:37.9	They're films I'm interested in or invested in to some degree.
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