In this episode of Film Stories with Simon Brew, a franchise-starting hit, and a modest thriller with an impressive roster of personnel.
The success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is now written large into movie history – but it’s often forgotten just what a risk the first Iron Man movie was. And also, that it was arguably Marvel’s most tight-fisted production too.
Pacific Heights was more modest, but did attract a legendary director, and in Michael Keaton, a man who’d just brought Batman to the big screen. Yet there were, as it turns out, behind the scenes problems on this one…
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