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Project Dillard
Part two of a two-part series.
The Pushkin Prize for Egregiously Deceptive Self-Promotion
This your invitation to the greatest award show no one鈥檚 heard of: the Pushkin Prizes
Welcome to Development Hell
The untold stories about Hollywood projects that never left the page.
Blink with Stephen Gaghan | Development Hell
A failed vampire love story, Leonardo DiCaprio鈥檚 Prius and an unexpected turn.
The Variable Man with Gary Goldman and Angus Fletcher | Development Hell
Why did Gary and Angus have so much trouble selling another Philip K. Dick adaptation?
Bubbles with Isaac Adamson | Development Hell
The story behind a biopic about a chimpanzee named Bubbles, sidekick to the King of Pop.
The Birthday Party with Charles Randolph | Development Hell
A masterclass on a screenwriter's many minefields.
I Am Superman with Patty Jenkins | Development Hell
Between her big hits, Patty Jenkins wrote an R-rated fairy tale, starring a dog.
Labour of Love with M. Night Shyamalan | Development Hell
In this episode, M. Night Shyamalan tells Malcolm about the script that haunts him.
Blue Seattle with Cameron Crowe | Development Hell
Cameron tells the story behind 鈥淏lue Seattle鈥 for the very first time.
In Triplicate
A mystery that begins with the half-baked idea of an obscure California bureaucrat.
Star Struck
A pop culture what-if experiment about the 1937 version of A Star is Born.
鈥淚 Was A Stranger and You Welcomed Me鈥
Do we underestimate the value of ordinary acts of kindness?
Outliers, Revisited
Revisionist History runs a mysterious experiment at the University of Pennsylvania.
Hitler's Olympics
Introducing... Hitler's Olympics
Hitler swept to power in the mid-1930s and set out to stage the most extravagant Olympics
Part 1: The Blue-Eyed Tornado
In the early 1930s, Hitler granted a rare interview to US journalist Dorothy Thompson.
Part 2: Pangloss, Polonius, Prufrock
Faced with a moral dilemma, America needed the wisdom of Solomon. But it got Sherrill.
Part 3: Mustache to Mustache
The wolf met with the chicken. Guess who won?
Part 4: Outcast in Olympia
The cheerleader for the American Olympic movement was a tycoon named Avery Brundage.
Part 5: The Amateur鈥檚 Hour
A German Jewish high-jumper is determined to get her shot at Olympic greatness.
Part 6: The Jiggle & the Giddy Up
What really happened at the long jump pit that day between Jesse Owens and Luz Long?
Hitler鈥檚 Olympics, Part 7: Long Jump, Tall Tale
The hidden life of one of America鈥檚 iconic sports heroes, Jesse Owens.
Hitler鈥檚 Olympics, Part 8: 鈥淰ater, It is to be Fayetteville鈥
The fight over the games provided Americans a chance to study Nazi Germany.
Hitler鈥檚 Olympics, Part 9: A Plague on Both Your Houses.
What is the right way to reconcile something pure with the messiness of the real world?
Saigon, 1965
In the 1960s the Pentagon set up a research project in an old villa in downtown Saigon.