The Flash (2023) and 24: The Movie (unmade so far)

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Tv & Film, Film History

4.9 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Two films looooong in the making in this episode of Film Stories: one's been made at the time of recording, one hasn't. Talk first surfaced of The Flash movie back in the 1980s, but it wasn't until 2023 that a film was finally released. By then, an under-fire Warner Bros was hoping for great things from the film, and confidence appeared to be high: but there were problems, and no shortage of them. The idea of taking the smash-hit TV show 24 and turning it into a movie seemed fairly logical, and the production budget was going to be on the modest side. Yet delay after delay hit the project - but not before an audacious Die Hard spin-off had been proposed... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello. Yes. Yes, this is Simon Brew. Yeah, I'm the editor of Film Stories magazine. The Film Stories podcast, yeah, this is it. And a very warm welcome.
0:16.4	Come with me. And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
0:21.6	And movies.
0:22.6	Movies that had stories.
0:24.6	That the story just sucks a man.
0:26.6	This is just the beginning.
0:28.6	We would be honored if you would join us.
0:36.6	Hello and a very warm welcome to film stories with Simon Brew.
0:41.0	I am Simon Brew as always.
0:42.4	That's absolutely everything you need to know about me.
0:45.2	The aim of the podcast though, well, it's given away in the title.
0:47.4	I'm here to talk of the stories of films and I tend to talk about production stories, marketing stories, release stories, development stories.
0:53.5	All the ingredients really that go towards making the films that we know and sometimes love,
0:57.8	just that the films that we know and sometimes love.
1:01.3	The films that I tend to cover on this podcast lean more towards the mainstream than anything
1:05.5	else, are films I'm interested in or invested in to some degree.
1:08.9	I try really hard not to do snark. I try really hard to not punch
1:12.6	down. This podcast is a celebration of cinema and a real appreciation that it's incredibly hard to get a
1:18.3	film off the ground. In each episode of the podcast, I cover two different productions, in this case,
1:24.0	one that's got made and one that to date has not. So let's just crack on with those.
1:28.5	I'm going to set it up with a trailer, well, a clip from the trailer of the first of the movies I'm going to talk about.
1:34.1	I'll come to the story, and it's a long story, the other side of this.
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