Director M. Night Shyamalan: A Talk from 'Development Hell'

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Society & Culture, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

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🗓️ 31 March 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Today we're sharing two special conversations, featuring our friends at Revisionist History.

First, Malcolm Gladwell joins Sam to discuss "Development Hell," a new series about the untold stories of Hollywood that never left the page (2:00).

Then, we turn to Gladwell's recent sit-down with director M. Night Shyamalan (25:00). Before Shyamalan became a household name for his mind bending thrillers like “The Sixth Sense” and “Signs”, he was just a young screenwriter in love. And during those blissful early years of marriage he wrote a love story. The screenplay for “Labor of Love” sold right away, and over the next 30 years or so there would be numerous attempts to make it into a movie. There was a major studio, there were A-list directors, Shyamalan even found his perfect star. In this episode, M. Night Shyamalan reveals the script that haunts him.

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0:41.4	What guilt Alice? This year, there's no love. In Mother's instinct, I killed Alice.
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0:45.2	Something's broken inside of me.
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0:48.2	She manipulates people.
0:49.4	And you don't even see it.
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