Pushkin.

I've had such a exceptionally curated.

I've had such an exceptionally curated career.

Every movie I've ever written since 18 has been greenlit to be made into a movie.

You've seen everything I've written, you know,

except for this one that we're gonna talk about.

So it's an interesting... Always a twist.

Yeah.

Welcome back to Development Hell,

our mini series about the lost scripts of Hollywood.

Today I'm talking with M Knight-Shamalan, one of the best known filmmakers of the past generation,

suspense, thrillers, the supernatural, psycho-drama, you know whose movies, I'm sure.

Unbreakable, The Six Cents, Split, Glass, something like 15 films in the last 30 years,

which collectively have gross billions of dollars.

M-night Shalom's stories have haunted a lot of people over the years.

This episode is about the story that haunted M Knight-Shamel.

We've talked a lot so far in a series about movies that never got made because there was something wrong with the story or because someone on the outside had a problem with the script.

This episode is about none of those things.

There is nothing at all wrong with the story Shamalan has never told.

And maybe that's why he never told it. There was a the first real script that I felt kind of lightning bolt inspiration that came to me. I was 22 and I just been married just got married and I wrote a kind of a love story and it's called labor of love and I was writing it and I wrote it

I almost can remember everywhere I wrote it because it was such a special experience of writing by that time that was my

third feature that I'd written. I had made a movie already in India.

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