The Frighteners (1996) and The Green Mile (1999)

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Tv & Film, Film History

4.9 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In the latest episode of Film Stories with Simon Brew, two 90s movies, that faced very different challenges. The Frighteners wasn't originally envisaged as a film. Wasn't envisaged as a summer movie. And wasn't envisaged as a film that followed an Oscar-nominated breakthrough movie. Yet, in each case, it was. The Green Mile, meanwhile, was a film that hit a sizeable casting roadblock - until Bruce Willis picked up the phone. Stories of both are discussed in this episode. Find Simon on Twitter at @simonbrew, and the podcast can be found at @filmstoriespod. You can find the Film Stories website here. Support our work at 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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0:00.0	Hello, my name is Simon Brew.
0:01.8	I'm the editor of Film Stories magazine, and a very warm welcome to the Film Stories podcast.
0:07.4	Come with me.
0:09.6	And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
0:12.9	And movies.
0:14.0	Movies that had stories.
0:15.7	That the story just sucks a man.
0:18.2	This is just the beginning.
0:20.7	There are stories. We would be honoured if you would join us.
0:27.6	Hello and a very warm welcome to film stories with Simon Brew. I am Simon Brew. As always,
0:32.5	that's everything you need to know about me. The aim of the podcast, I'm here as the title suggests,
0:36.7	to talk of the stories of films.
0:38.8	And what I tend to delve into on this podcast are production stories, development stories,
0:42.6	behind the scenes stuff, the things that go to make. The films that we know and sometimes love,
0:46.8	just that, those films that we know and sometimes love. If you're new to the podcast,
0:51.0	welcome, if you're returning welcome, I tend to focus on mainstream films that I have some degree of interest and investment in.
0:58.7	I don't do snark.
1:00.0	I'm just here to talk about stories and really the difficulty that even on the smallest of movies in rolling the metaphorical boulder up the hill to get a film made.
1:10.3	The two films I'm going to talk about in this particular episode,
1:13.4	well, I'm just going to get cracking with them, actually.
1:15.4	I'm going to play you a clip from the first.
1:16.9	I'll come to the story, the other side of this.
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