Podcast | Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels (1998) and Alive (1993)

How Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels owes a debt to Tom Cruise, and why it took over a decade to bring Alive to the screen.

After a week off for Easter, the Film Stories podcast is back with more behind the scenes movie stories. It’s going all gangster this time too, with the tale of how Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels had to scale down from a very expensive film to a very cheap one. And the moment when Tom Cruise lent it a helping hand too.

Then it’s 1993’s Alive, telling a difficult true story on film, and as it turns out, a story that involved around 18 different scripts across a decade or so. The turning point? It might just have been a car bumper sticker!

Stories of both are told in this episode…