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Pushkin. Hello,

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Hello listeners, Malcolm here to

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let you know that next week we're

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bringing you something completely Now.

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Many years ago, I had an adventure in Hollywood.

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Me and my friend Steve pitched a movie idea.

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The whole list of studio bosses and

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fancy offices all across Los Angeles.

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We waved our fingers in the air, We jumped up and

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down. Agents called us from their cars.

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We put them on speaker. There were offers,

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there were stars, was a deal, and

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then nothing happened.

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And I got my first lesson in Hollywood,

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which is that most things never happen. In

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fact, maybe the best things never happen.

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

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describe the purgatory where once

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promising scripts go to die development

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hell. And

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our idea here a vision's history, is

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to do a little mini series, half

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a dozen or so episodes where we tell

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development hell stories. Call

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up a screenwriter or a director and

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ask them to tell the story of the story

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that got away. And it turns out there

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are a ton of great stories

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about great stories that got away.

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You know what. The analogy, the best

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analogy to your world is if

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you work in the drug industry. Most

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people who are researchers for drug companies

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will spend their entire career working

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on drugs that will never make it to the market. It's

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the same thing. So it's like this weird thing whether these

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incredibly smart people who are doing all of

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this brilliant work and nothing

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they do will ever see

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the lot of day. I find that, Yeah,

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yeah, it's a little bit heartbreaking.

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Oh it's heartbreaking all right, and

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funny and weird and fascinating. It's

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a glimpse into the Hollywood that never happened.

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We're going to start with the story that got me going on this

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adventure, my

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wild ride around Los Angeles years ago

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with my friend Steve. I must say, the entire

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time we were with Leo, I was like so hopelessly

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starstruck. And from there, we're

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going to talk about a sci fi story with a twist

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that was a little too twisty for the movie business.

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He kicks down the door and he points his

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gun, and then the hacker turns around

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and it's a child. We've

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got an amazing biopic about the world's

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most famous chimpanzee,

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an utterly insane musical about

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Elvis as a cab driver, and

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so much more, not to mention an unhealthy

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amount of name dropping, celebrity

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gossip, and endless digressions.

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Oh my god. At one point during one of these interviews,

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I looked across at my producer Nina and

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realized she was crying. And

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then I realized I was crying.

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And guess what when you listen to that little bit,

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My guess is that you'll be crying

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too, unless you

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have a heart of stone. And if you have

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a heart of stone, maybe this podcast

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isn't for you. You

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can hear development Hell right here in

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this feed starting February twenty ninth,

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when we'll be dropping the first two episodes

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two for the price of one, then weekly

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after that, and as always,

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you can hear all of Revision's

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history add free by subscribing

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to pushkin Plus. So

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it's actually, it's actually an incredible

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story.