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Revisionist History

Blink with Stephen Gaghan | Development Hell

Revisionist History

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, History

4.861.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 February 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

It’s the mid-2000s, Malcolm and writer/producer Stephen Gaghan (“Traffic”, “Syriana”) are running around Hollywood pitching their scripted adaptation of Blink. This conversation starts with a failed vampire love story, takes a ride in Leonardo DiCaprio’s Prius, before making an unexpectedly heartbreaking turn that leads Stephen to walk away from the project forever.

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Many years ago, I wrote a book called Blink. It was about snap judgments and first

1:17.6

impressions. It was my second book. My interactions with Hollywood were to that point

1:22.3

limited.

1:23.0

I think someone once option something I'd written for the New Yorker

1:26.0

and I'd taken the meeting or two, but nothing came of it.

1:29.0

But there, one day, I got a call from Steve Gagen.

1:33.2

If you're a movie buff, you've heard the name.

1:37.9

He just won the Oscar for writing Traffic, which was an amazing movie about the drug trade directed by Stephen Sauterberg

1:45.0

starring Michael Douglas and Benecio del Toro and Don Cheetle and a million

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