The New Mutants (2020) and Bowfinger (1999)

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Tv & Film, Film History

4.9 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In the new episode of Film Stories with Simon Brew, a film finally released nearly three years after filming, and a comedy that was a comeback of sorts for Steve Martin The New Mutants was caught up in reshoots talks, a company takeover, and a rumour that the whole film was going to scrapped and started again. Bowfinger was an easier shoot, although it was a film that came about in Steve Martin's head some 15 years before it was made. Stories of both are told in this episode. Find Simon on Twitter at @simonbrew, and the podcast can be found at @filmstoriespod. 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, this is Simon Brew.
0:01.8	I'm editor of Film Stories magazine and a very warm welcome to the Film Stories podcast.
0:07.0	Come with me.
0:09.2	And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
0:12.4	And movies.
0:13.6	Movies that have stories.
0:15.3	That the story just sucks a man.
0:17.7	This is just the beginning.
0:20.3	We would be honored if you would join us.
0:27.1	Hello and a very warm welcome to Film Stories with Simon Brew.
0:30.5	I am Simon Brew. That's all you need to know about me.
0:33.4	The aim of the podcast is as the title gives it away.
0:36.1	I'm here to talk of the stories of films.
0:38.6	It's all behind the scene stuff, really. I tend to talk about development stories, release stories, production stories, marketing stories, financing stories.
0:45.6	Stories of comic book movies that are caught in the middle of major corporate takeovers, just your everyday kind of stuff, really.
0:54.0	The films I tend to
0:55.1	choose to this podcast, well, they tend to have a mainstream leading. They're films I'm interested
0:59.1	in to some degree as well. I've got little interest in punching down. I'm not got a massive
1:03.9	interest in Snark either. I just think it's a huge achievement to get a film made. And this
1:09.1	podcast, really, if anything anything is a celebration of that.
1:11.9	I talk about two films every episode and already I've pre-ampled way too much so let's crack
1:17.3	on. I'm going to play you a clip from the first of the two films and I'll crack on with the
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