Sneakers (1992) and Romeo + Juliet (1996)
An ensemble crime caper over a decade in the making, and a Shakespeare adaptation that broke the mould...
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Show Notes
In the new episode of Film Stories with Simon Brew, an ensemble film with a reluctant director, and a Shakespeare take that made its studio nervous.
Sneakers took years to simply write - and then when it came to finding a director, the man who took the job on had suggested John Badham first.
Romeo + Juliet meanwhile needed Leonardo DiCaprio to fly himself to Australia just to keep the studio interested - and then the shoot itself was rocked by a kidnapping.
Stories of both are told in this episode.
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