The Great Escape (1963) and Rocky III (1982)

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Film History, Tv & Film

4.9 • 813 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

For the latest episode of the Film Stories podcast, a war movie, a boxing movie, and a few problems in the making of both. 1963's The Great Escape was a film that director John Sturges couldn't initially get off the ground, and he needed his success with The Magnificent Seven to make it happen. When it did? It wasn't the easiest of productions, with a lot of chopped down trees, and a star who wasn't happy with his part in the film. Sylvester Stallone wasn't initially chomping at the bit to make Rocky III meanwhile, but when he opted to make the movie, his script would reflect the difficulties he was facing himself at the time. Then there was the small matter of finding the actor to play his opponent: Clubber Lang... --- Find Simon on Twitter and Bluesky at @simonbrew, and the podcast can be found at @filmstories Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.7	T's and C's apply. Hello. This is Simon Brue
0:37.8	This is the film stories podcast
0:47.3	Come with me
0:49.4	And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes
0:53.2	And movies.
0:54.9	Movies that had stories.
0:56.6	That the story just sucks a man.
0:59.1	This is just the beginning.
1:01.6	We would be honored if you would join us.
1:08.5	Hello and a very warm welcome to film stories with Simon Brew. I am Simon Brew as always. There's
1:14.5	absolutely everything you need to know about me. The aim of the podcast though, well, it's given away
1:18.8	in the title. I'm here to talk off the stories of films and I tend to talk about development stories,
1:23.7	production stories, marketing stories, release stories, the behind the scenes bits and bobs really that go towards making the films that we know and sometimes love, just that the
1:31.3	films that we know and sometimes love. Now the films I tend to cover on this podcast lean more
1:36.3	towards the mainstream than anything else. They're films I'm interested in or invested in to some
1:40.9	degree. I try really hard not to do snark. I try really hard not to punch them.
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