X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) and Scent Of A Woman (1992)

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Tv & Film, Film History

4.9 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

2016 was a turning point in the world of the X-Men movies. After the big success of 2014's X-Men: Days Of Future Past, 20th Century Fox spent big on X-Men: Apocalypse, and big things were expected of it. On the other hand, it had taken a gamble with a different X-Men-related project, Deadpool. Things would not go the way that the studio had originally expected. The story of Scent Of A Woman meanwhile is wrapped up in the push for Al Pacino to finally get an Oscar, after several unsuccessful nominations. Not bad, for a film that originally had Jack Nicholson in line for the lead role... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.3	Hello, this is Simon Brew. I'm the editor of Film Stories magazine and a very warm welcome to the
0:37.3	film stories podcast. I'm really delighted
0:40.2	to say that I'm about to meet Al Pacino for the first time as well. Hello Al, how are you?
0:46.9	Uh-oh, we got a moron here, is that it? Roll the titles.
0:52.0	Come with me.
0:56.9	And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
0:58.3	And movies.
1:00.1	Movies that had stories.
1:02.5	That the story just sucks a man.
1:03.6	This is just the beginning.
1:09.9	We would be honored if you would join us.
1:16.7	Hello and a very warm welcome to film stories with Simon Brew.
1:20.9	I am Simon Brew. As always, that's absolutely everything you need to know about me.
1:23.5	The aim of the podcast, though, is given away by the title.
1:32.1	I'm here to talk of the stories of films and I tend to talk about production stories, development stories, marketing stories, release stories, all those ingredients really that go towards making the films that we know and sometimes love, just that the films that we
1:36.4	know and sometimes love. The films I tend to cover on this podcast lean more towards the
1:41.3	mainstream than anything else. They're films I'm interested in or
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