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Jun 2021
54m 19s

RoboCop 2 (1990) and Drop Dead Gorgeous ...

Simon Brew
About this episode

In the new episode of Film Stories with Simon Brew, two films with very different levels of studio expectation.

Much was resting on RoboCop 2 being a huge success, but it didn't bode well when it got its final director just days before filming began. And the studio was very hands on.

Drop Dead Gorgeous was a much lower-budget project, with a writer and director who didn't really click. Plus, its studio had a little panic about it very late in the day.

Stories of both are told in this episode.

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