Speaker 1: Pushkin. Hello, Hello listeners, Malcolm here to let you know
Speaker 1: that next week we're bringing you something completely Now. Many
Speaker 1: years ago, I had an adventure in Hollywood. Me and
Speaker 1: my friend Steve pitched a movie idea. The whole list
Speaker 1: of studio bosses and fancy offices all across Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: We waved our fingers in the air, We jumped up
Speaker 1: and down. Agents called us from their cars. We put
Speaker 1: them on speaker. There were offers, there were stars, was
Speaker 1: a deal, and then nothing happened. And I got my
Speaker 1: first lesson in Hollywood, which is that most things never happen.
Speaker 1: In fact, maybe the best things never happen. There's a
Speaker 1: phrase they use out in Los Angeles to describe the
Speaker 1: purgatory where once promising scripts go to die development hell.
Speaker 1: And our idea here a vision's history, is to do
Speaker 1: a little mini series, half a dozen or so episodes
Speaker 1: where we tell development hell stories. Call up a screenwriter
Speaker 1: or a director and ask them to tell the story
Speaker 1: of the story that got away. And it turns out
Speaker 1: there are a ton of great stories about great stories
Speaker 1: that got away. You know what. The analogy, the best
Speaker 1: analogy to your world is if you work in the
Speaker 1: drug industry. Most people who are researchers for drug companies
Speaker 1: will spend their entire career working on drugs that will
Speaker 1: never make it to the market. It's the same thing.
Speaker 1: So it's like this weird thing whether these incredibly smart
Speaker 1: people who are doing all of this brilliant work and
Speaker 1: nothing they do will ever see the lot of day.
Speaker 1: I find that, Yeah, it's a little bit heartbreaking. Oh
Speaker 1: it's heartbreaking all right, and funny and weird and fascinating.
Speaker 1: It's a glimpse into the Hollywood that never happened. We're
Speaker 1: going to start with the story that got me going
Speaker 1: on this adventure, my wild ride around Los Angeles years
Speaker 1: ago with my friend Steve. I must say, the entire
Speaker 1: time we were with Leo, I was like so hopelessly starstruck.
Speaker 1: And from there, we're going to talk about a sci
Speaker 1: fi story with a twist that was a little too
Speaker 1: twisty for the movie business. He kicks down the door
Speaker 1: and he points his gun, and then the hacker turns
Speaker 1: around and it's a child. We've got an amazing biopic
Speaker 1: about the world's most famous chimpanzee, an utterly insane musical
Speaker 1: about Elvis as a cab driver, and so much more,
Speaker 1: not to mention an unhealthy amount of name dropping, celebrity gossip,
Speaker 1: and endless digressions. Oh my god. At one point during
Speaker 1: one of these interviews, I looked across at my producer
Speaker 1: Nina and realized she was crying. And then I realized
Speaker 1: I was crying. And guess what when you listen to
Speaker 1: that little bit, My guess is that you'll be crying too,
Speaker 1: unless you have a heart of stone. And if you
Speaker 1: have a heart of stone, maybe this podcast isn't for you.
Speaker 1: You can hear development hell right here in this feed
Speaker 1: starting February twenty ninth, when we'll be dropping the first
Speaker 1: two episodes two for the price of one, then weekly
Speaker 1: after that, and as always, you can hear all of
Speaker 1: Revision's history add free by subscribing to pushkin Plus. So
Speaker 1: it's actually, it's actually an incredible story.