Pushkin.

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, 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. Life is a gift and you want to wake up and so you seek those situations where you feel awake. And hopefully

it's, you know, you seek situations where you're not hurting anybody and you're not hurting yourself and it's sustainable that being awake and finding those situations where you're awake

That was Willem to foe. I'm San Francisco. This is Talk Easy. Welcome to the show. Oh, Willem de Foe is one of those actors you see on screen and think, yeah, that guy was meant to do this.

Performing just makes sense.

The foe's face has this unique texture to it, a malleability. It can be menacing like in the Spider-Man

series or a Grand Budapest Hotel. It could be noble like in platoon or most recently in Sean Baker's The Florida Project.

Sometimes he literally will just play Jesus Christ in a Martin Scorsese movie.

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