The Prestige (2006), plus Dan Trachtenberg on Predator: Badlands and more

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Tv & Film, Film History

4.9 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Christopher Nolan, for a brief moment in time, was set to make The Prestige just ahead of directing Batman Begins. But circumstances meant that by the time the window of time was right, the Batman reboot was already a hit. Nolan thus jumped into a movie that was modestly costed, and didn't involve having to travel the world to shoot. The author of the original book The Prestige? Well, he sounds like a guy with notes...! Then! Ryan Lambie had a long conversation with Predator: Badlands, Predator: Killer Of Killers and Prey writer/director Dan Trachtenberg. He talks about his new film, and bit of Weyland Yutani too... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Simon Brew.
0:02.6	I'm the editor of Film Stories magazine and a very warm welcome to the Film Stories podcast.
0:08.3	Come with me.
0:10.5	And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
0:13.8	And movies.
0:15.0	Movies that had stories.
0:16.6	That the story just sucks a man.
0:19.1	This is just the beginning.
0:21.6	We would be honoured if you would join us.
0:28.5	Hello and a very warm welcome to Film Stories with Simon Brew.
0:32.7	I am Simon Brew.
0:34.0	As always says, absolutely everything you need to know about me.
0:37.1	The aim of the podcast,
0:38.0	it's given away by the title, really. I'm here to talk off the stories of films and I tend
0:41.9	to talk about marketing stories, production stories, release stories, distribution stories,
0:46.5	all the ingredients really that go towards making the films that we know and sometimes love,
0:50.6	just that the films that we know and sometimes love. The films I tend to cover
0:55.3	on the podcast, they lead more towards the mainstream than anything else. They're films I'm
0:58.8	interested in or invested in to some degree. I try not to do snark. I try not to punch down. This
1:04.5	podcast is a celebration of cinema and a real appreciation that somehow, somehow, films managed to
1:10.8	get made.
1:12.4	Film Stories is also a very proud part of the Film Stories Podcast Network,
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