The Incredible Hulk (2008) and Life (2017)

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Film History, Tv & Film

4.9 • 813 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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In this episode of Film Stories, a little bit of a Marvel misfire, and a film that was pitched by the owner of the company that made it. When Marvel first for into making films, it secured over $500m via a major loan to fund its plans. It was felt that a Hulk movie, The Incredible Hulk, was needed quickly to help pay things off. That and Iron Man thus went into production at the same time - and one would go a lot, lot smoother than the other. Life meanwhile is an often-overlooked sci-fi hit from 2017. Not only is it a good film, though, but it came together very, very quickly. And for writers Paul Wernick and Rhett Rheese, they were given a one line idea and around a month to work out just what the resultant film would be. Plus: the shadow of the not-dissimilar Alien: Covenant was on the horizon... --- Film Stories print magazines can be found at store.filmstories.co.uk --- 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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0:30.5	Hello, this is Simon Brew.
0:32.9	I'm the editor of Film Stories magazine and a very warm welcome to the nice safe calm film stories podcast
0:41.5	come with me and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. And movies.
0:54.6	Movies that had stories.
0:56.3	That the story just sucks a man.
0:58.7	This is just the beginning.
1:01.3	We would be honored if you would join us.
1:08.0	Hello and a very warm welcome to film stories with Simon Brew.
1:12.8	I am Simon Brew as always as absolutely everything you need to know about me.
1:17.0	The aim of the podcast though, well, it's given away in the title really.
1:19.7	I'm here to talk off the stories of films and I tend to talk about development stories, production stories, marketing stories, release stories,
1:26.6	all those ingredients really
1:27.9	that go towards making the films that we know and sometimes love, just that the films that we know
1:32.8	and sometimes love. The films I tend to cover on this podcast lean more towards the mainstream than
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