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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. Yeah, we're terrified. When you look at your numbers and you go like we don't have enough money to pay for all this stuff we need.

That's a terrifying feeling. But her and I had been together through college where

we had zero dollars or five dollars or whatever for a week and we knew we could do it. It was like we'll just

make some changes and we'll figure this out. She was very good at like

scheduling stuff and saving money and here's how we're going to do this and like

which is for me to see her calm was like okay cool we're gonna be all right and

so then it was just like okay well, well, what do we need?

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