In the latest Film Stories podcast, the behind the scenes tales of Outbreak and Predestination, and their battles to get to the screen.
An article published back in 1992 would spark a bidding war in Hollywood. Nothing unusual there. That article would lead to Ridley Scott, Jodie Foster and Robert Redford signing up for a big, expensive movie – a movie that never got made. And it never got made because of 1995’s Outbreak.
Three movies meanwhile had failed to come together in a row for filmmakers the Spierig brothers after they scored a hit with Daybreakers. But they had a project in mind, based on a Robert A Heinlein (Starship Troopers) short story. It’d lead to Predestination – but there was the small matter of starting work without securing the rights to the story…
The stories of both are told in this episode…
