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Hello, Malcolm Globel here.

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 that known in Hollywood ever wants to hear,

the one that describes the purgatory, were 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,

add free, by subscribing to Pushkin Plus. I feel like we got to start with the archive intro.

Do you want to do it?

What the imagine? Imagine a place in our world where the known things go. A

quarter of time, bookshelves lined with old ballots, political campaign posters and television ads,

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