Venom (2018) and Sliver (1993)

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Film History, Tv & Film

4.9 • 813 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Film Stories with Simon Brew, a hit Spider-Man spin-off, and the film that tried to capitalise on the success of Basic Instinct. The first talk of a Venom movie came about in the late 1990s. But eventually, Sony would start developing the film as part of its Spider-Man rights package. The problem? It kept rebooting Spider-Man, and that kept resetting its Venom plans. Big things were expected of 1993's erotic thriller Sliver, meanwhile. But a hugely ambitious final act was originally shot involving a volcano, that nearly led to the death of two people. And, well, let's just say that on set, not everyone was getting along... Find Simon on Twitter at @simonbrew, and the podcast can be found at @filmstories Support this podcast: www.patreon.com/simonbrew. Find our print magazines 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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0:00.0	Hello, this is Simon Brew.
0:02.5	I'm the editor of Film Stories magazine and a very warm welcome to the Film Stories podcast.
0:07.9	Now, I've been entering this podcast into a couple of awards over the last few weeks
0:12.6	and I've just got a consultant here where I can just quiz him on what my chances are winning are.
0:18.0	What do you reckon?
0:19.9	Pretty much zero.
0:21.6	Smashing.
0:22.6	Come with me.
0:24.6	And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
0:28.6	In movies, movies that had stories.
0:31.6	That the story just sucks a man.
0:33.6	This is just the beginning.
0:35.6	There are stories. We would be honored if you would join us.
0:43.6	Hello and a very warm welcome to film stories with Simon Brew.
0:47.7	I am Simon Brew.
0:48.6	As always, that's absolutely everything you need to know about me.
0:51.4	The aim of the podcast though is given away by the title.
0:53.5	I'm here to talk of the stories of films and I tend to talk about me. The aim of the podcast though is given away by the title. I'm here to talk
0:54.3	of the stories of films and I tend to talk about development stories, production stories, marketing
0:59.1	stories, release stories, all those ingredients really that go towards making the films that we know
1:03.8	and sometimes love. Just that, the films that we know and sometimes love. Now the films I do tend
1:09.1	to cover on this podcast, they lean more towards the
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