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Podcast: Film Stories with Simon Brew
Episode: Inception (2010) and Sightseers (2012)
Description: Ah-ha! Two of the most acclaimed British directors of the 2010s take centre stage in this episode, albeit with very, very different films.Christopher Nolan originally envisaged his dreamy heist movie Inception as a low budget feature. But just after he'd made Insomnia, he got 80 pages into what he felt the film should be and hit a stumbling block. Two Batman movies and The Prestige later and he finally began to crack it - and things built from there.It was a lengthy journey too to bring the dark British comedy Sightseers to...