In this episode of Film Stories with Simon Brew, a pair of 1990s summer blockbusters – one of which proved more problematic than the other.
Come 1990 and there were three competing Robin Hood projects on the way from Hollywood. But it was 1991’s Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves that won the race to the screen. It’d be fair to say it was not an easy journey to get there.
Off the back of making GoldenEye, Pierce Brosnan was looking for new projects – and he settled on a remake of The Thomas Crown Affair. Small problem though about trying to make a movie about a museum heist: museums don’t seem very keen to let you film on their premises…
—
Thank you for visiting! If you’d like to support our attempts to make a non-clickbaity movie website:
Follow Film Stories on Twitter here, and on Facebook here.
Buy our Film Stories and Film Junior print magazines here.
Become a Patron here.
Related Stories
- Podcast: The Insider (1999) and Layer Cake (2004)
In this episode of Film Stories with Simon Brew, a hugely risky studio movie, and a bit of a breakthrough role for Daniel Craig.
The Insider, from Michael Mann, was telling a story about a piece of modern history just years old when the movie was made. As such, there was a huge risk of litigation, [...]
- Podcast: Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) and T2 Trainspotting (2017)
After a longer than originally planned gap (due to a dodgy voice!), the Film Stories podcast returns from its summer snooze. And what better way to start than with not one T2, but a pair of them.
First up? Terminator 2: Judgment Day, a film that cost its makers $15m just for the rights to. That, [...]
- Podcast: I, Robot (2004) and For Love Of The Game (1999)
In this episode of Film Stories with Simon Brew, a massive hit sci-fi movie that came from smaller origins, and a baseball film that, well, hit problems.
The story of I, Robot the movie - in theory based on the work of Isaac Asimov - started with an indie script that was set effectively in one [...]
