Pushkin.

Hello, Malcolm Globel 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

Pergatory, where 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 and as always you can listen to

all of Revision's History ad free by subscribing to Pushkin Plus.

I'm Dr. Laurie Santos. I'm Tim Harford and this is another crossover episode of my

podcast The Happiness Lab and my podcast cautionary tales.

Laurie last time I took the lead I told you a story about the tensions between everyone taking a vacation

at the same time and an idea from Stalin's Soviet Union, where it was decreed that workers had to stagger their days off no matter what that meant

for missing leisure time with their friends and families. So this time it's the return match, as it were.

So what cautionary tale of happiness have you got in store for me?

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