The Forgotten Revolutionary Redux: Part 1
Imperfect Paradise
LAist Studios
4.5 • 535 Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Imperfect Paradise: The Forgotten Revolutionary, the 2022 podcast from LAist Studios, has been optioned by Participant and is simultaneously being developed as a scripted and documentary limited series.
Part 1:
Oscar Gomez was a star of the 1990s Chicano student movement and then, unexpectedly, he died. A rattling event in host Adolfo Guzman-Lopez’s life spurs him to investigate Oscar’s death.
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| 0:33.6 | Hey, this is in Perfect Paradise. |
| 0:36.0 | I'm Antonia Sidiqido. |
| 0:40.3 | Today, we are bringing you a very special redrop of the 2022 Imperfect Paradise series, The Forgotten Revolutionary, which was hosted by |
| 0:46.6 | Adolfo Guzman Lopez, who's here with me right now. Hello, Antonia. So Adolfo, we're |
| 0:52.0 | rebroadcasting this series because something really special has happened, |
| 0:56.2 | which is that participant, which is this really incredible studio that's made amazing movies like Spotlight and an Inconvenient Truth, has decided to option this series. |
| 1:07.2 | Adolfo, do you want to tell us a little bit more about that deal? |
| 1:10.3 | Yeah, absolutely. So Forgotten Revolutionary has been in our ears, but now it's going to be on the screen. |
| 1:17.0 | It's being simultaneously developed as a scripted and a documentary limited series, and I'm a consulting producer on it. |
| 1:24.3 | I am so excited to know who's going to play you. Some Oscar Isaac. |
| 1:30.0 | I will probably be out of the decision, so my ego and vanity will not have a role in picking |
| 1:37.5 | the actor. But how are you feeling about this to use overall? Oh, I think it's a great opportunity. |
| 2:00.3 | It's the opportunity to get Oscar Gomez's story out there, the story of a Mexican-American activist from the early 90s who died suddenly, unexpectedly, and whose future was dashed. And it's also a story about that 1990s Chicano student activist generation, the Prop 187 generation. |
| 2:07.9 | Yeah, one of the things that was so exciting for me about producing this series was that I'm a millennial and I feel like my generation, we learned a lot about the civil rights movement in the 60s, |
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