Top Gun: Maverick (2022) and Greatest Days (2023)

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Film History, Tv & Film

4.9 • 813 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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It's a pair of summer movies in this episode of Film Stories, both of which were affected by the pandemic, one of which would fare a lot better than the other. The journey to 2022's Top Gun: Maverick was over a decade long, a sequel that stopped and started more than once. Tom Cruise eventually agreed to make the film though, with filming underway in 2018: yet circumstances would mean it'd be many years before audiences could clap their eyes on it. The idea of doing a movie based around the music of Take That looked to be a strong one, and Greatest Days was all set to film in 2020. Yet when the movie had to put the brakes on, it took away most of the lead cast too - and it'd all have to be put back together two years' later. Even then, the weather gods were not with it... --- Film Stories print magazines can be found at store.filmstories.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.9	Hello.
0:35.9	This is Simon Brew. I'm the editor of Film Stories magazine
0:42.3	and a very warm welcome
0:45.3	to the Film Stories podcast.
0:50.3	Come with me.
0:53.3	And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
0:57.4	And movies.
0:58.5	Movies that had stories.
1:00.2	That the story just sucks a man.
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1:12.1	Hello and a very warm welcome to Film Stories with Simon Brew.
1:16.9	I am Simon Brew, as always. There's absolutely everything you need to know about me.
1:21.2	The aim of the podcast though, well, I'm here to talk off the stories of films and I tend to talk about development
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