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Film Stories with Simon Brew

Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) and Final Destination (2000)

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Tv & Film, Film History

4.9767 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In the latest episode of Film Stories with Simon Brew, a huge animated challenge, and a film that started off planned as an X-Files episode The Nightmare Before Christmas required a new facility, and a director too when Tim Burton's commitment to Batman Returns got in the way.  As for Final Destination? The hit franchise-starter's journey began with a teenager's idea for an Elm Street sequel. Stories of both are discussed in this episode. Find Simon on Twitter at @simonbrew, and the podcast can be found at @filmstoriespod. You can find the Film Stories website here. 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.

0:01.9

I'm the editor of Film Stories magazine, and a very warm welcome to the Film Stories podcast.

0:07.1

Come with me.

0:09.6

And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.

0:12.6

And movies.

0:13.8

Movies that had stories.

0:15.4

That the story just sucks a man.

0:17.9

This is just the beginning.

0:20.5

They're all the stories stories we would be honored

0:23.2

if you would join us

0:25.0

hello and a very warm welcome to film stories with simon brew i am simon brew as always

0:32.4

that's all you need to know about me in that one sentence the podcast though

0:35.7

well we're here as the title suggests to talk

0:37.8

off the stories of films, those coincidences, the behind the scene stories, the development

0:42.3

stories, marketing stories, those tales that go to make the films that we know and sometimes

0:47.3

love just that, the films that we know and sometimes love. The films I tend to pick for the

0:52.8

podcast, if you're here for the first time,

0:58.5

welcome. If you're not, welcome, welcome, anyway. They tend to have a mainstream leaning. They tend to be films that I have some degree of investment or interest in. I don't do snark. So if you're

1:03.6

looking for that, this isn't the podcast for you. But if you're still here and I've not put you off, that's enough waffle and preamble from me.

1:11.3

I'm going to play you a clip from the first of the two films I'm going to talk about in this episode of film stories,

1:16.0

and I'll pick up the story, the other side of this.

1:20.0

What is this?

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