Hello, this is Simon Brew. I'm the editor of Film Stories magazine and a very warm welcome to a special episode of the Film Stories podcast.

Come with me.

And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.

And movies. Movies that have stories.

The story just sucks a man. This is just the beginning.

There are stories. We would be honored if you would join us.

Hello and a very warm welcome to film stories with Simon Brew.

I am Simon Brew.

That's absolutely everything you need to know about me.

The aim of this podcast, if you're new to it,

welcome, welcome if you're not new to it as well, is to talk as the story suggests of the stories

of films. So I tend to talk about production stories, behind the scenes stories, development stories,

release stories, marketing stories, really anything that goes to contribute to make films that we

know and sometimes love, just that the films that we know and sometimes love.

Now, this is one of my occasional special episodes of the film stories podcast where I get to talk

to a filmmaker about their movie and the story behind their movie and how it came to be.

I'm delighted to say that in this episode, I'm joined by Bill Condon, who most recently and primarily

what we talk about, has made 2019's The Good Liar. Previously, he's made the likes of gods and

monsters. He's made the recent Disney Beauty and the Beast, made Mr. Holmes. He did the latter

Twilight films. And as I'm going to touch on, he also wrote

FX2, a 90 sequel I'm really quite fond of. Just to set the scene for The Good Liar, this one is directed

by Condon. It starts in its lead role, Dame Helen, lead roles, Dame Helen Mirren and Sir Ian

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