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Hello, Hello, listeners.

Malcolm here to let you know that Hello, welcome,

Malcolm here to let you know that next week

we're bringing you something completely know.

Many years ago, I had an adventure in Hollywood.

Me and my friend Steve pitched a movie idea to a whole list of studio bosses and fancy offices all across Los Angeles. We waved our fingers in the air, we jumped up and down.

Agents called us from their cars, we put them on speaker.

There were offers, there were stars, it was a deal.

And then nothing happened. And I got my first lesson in Hollywood, which is that most things never happen.

In fact, maybe the best things never happen.

There's a phrase they use out in Los Angeles to

describe the purgatory where once promising scripts go to die. Development hell.

And our idea here at Vision's History is to do a little mini-series, half a dozen or so

episodes where we tell Development Hell stories. Call up a screenwriter or a director and ask them to tell

the story of the story that got away and it turns out there are a ton of great

stories about great stories that got away.

You know what the analogy, the best analogy to your world is,

if you work in the drug industry,

most people who are researchers for drug companies will spend their entire career working on drugs that will never make it to the market.

It's the same thing. So it's like this weird thing with it, these incredibly smart people who are doing all of this brilliant work

and nothing they do will ever see the lead of day.

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