Hello, Malcolm Glabel here. A little while back, I became obsessed with stories that fell apart.

Specifically, Hollywood projects that fell apart and why they did. So I started calling up everyone I knew in Hollywood

and asked them to pitch me their favorite idea,

the one that broke their heart because it never got made.

These stories were so good and we decided to turn them into a series on revisionist history.

We're calling it development hell the dreaded phrase known in Hollywood ever wants to hear

the one that describes

the purgatory were once promising scripts go to die.

There's going to be name dropping, celebrity gossip, endless digressions, a story that was way

too shocking for the studios, one that was told from the point of view of an exotic pet.

And about the wild ride we went on trying to adapt my book, Blink, I can't wait to share it all with you.

Listen wherever you get your podcasts. Can't wait to share it all with you.

Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

And as always, you can listen to all of

Revision's History, ad free, by subscribing to Pushkin Plus. This is the final episode of a

Pushkin.

This is the final episode of a three-part series. You can appreciate it on a standalone basis,

but if you've not heard episodes one and two, you might prefer to listen to them first.

And please be aware that this episode of cautionary tales contains some upsetting descriptions

of a concentration camp in Nazi Germany. As the men from the US Third Armored Division approached the prison camp at Nordhausen in Central Germany,

they knew that something terrible awaited them.

They could smell it, rotting flesh. They could hear it. A strange groaning, rising and falling, but nothing could truly have prepared them

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