Eyes Wide Shut (1999) and Maybe Baby (2000) The never-ending shoot, and Ben Elton's directorial debut

The plan was for Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman to spend around six months in the UK for the filming of Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut. Kubrick had been mulling the film for decades, and considering a couple of other projects, too. But the shoot of Eyes Wide Shut would ultimately be his final film - and it's end up in the Guinness Book of Records. For Ben Elton, he was keen to pursue making the film Maybe Baby, having enjoyed success with the same story in his novel Inconceivable. But his insistence on a particular piece of casting nearly derailed the whole project. Stories of both are told in this episode. Please do like and

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Eyes Wide Shut (1999) and Maybe Baby (2000) The never-ending shoot, and Ben Elton's directorial debut is an episode from Film Stories with Simon Brew by Simon Brew.

This episode is 76:41 long.

This episode was published on Feb 23, 2026.

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