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Welcome to Development Hell

The untold stories about Hollywood projects that never left the page.

• 3 mins

Blink with Stephen Gaghan | Development Hell

A failed vampire love story, Leonardo DiCaprio鈥檚 Prius and an unexpected turn.

• 42 mins

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?

• 40 mins

Bubbles with Isaac Adamson | Development Hell

The story behind a biopic about a chimpanzee named Bubbles, sidekick to the King of Pop.

• 45 mins

The Birthday Party with Charles Randolph | Development Hell

A masterclass on a screenwriter's many minefields.

• 45 mins

I Am Superman with Patty Jenkins | Development Hell

Between her big hits, Patty Jenkins wrote an R-rated fairy tale, starring a dog.

• 40 mins

Labour of Love with M. Night Shyamalan | Development Hell

In this episode, M. Night Shyamalan tells Malcolm about the script that haunts him.

• 35 mins

Blue Seattle with Cameron Crowe | Development Hell

Cameron tells the story behind 鈥淏lue Seattle鈥� for the very first time.

• 49 mins

In Triplicate

A mystery that begins with the half-baked idea of an obscure California bureaucrat.

• 34 mins

Star Struck

A pop culture what-if experiment about the 1937 version of A Star is Born.

• 35 mins

鈥淚 Was A Stranger and You Welcomed Me鈥�

Do we underestimate the value of ordinary acts of kindness?

• 33 mins

Outliers, Revisited

Revisionist History runs a mysterious experiment at the University of Pennsylvania.

• 35 mins

Hitler's Olympics

Introducing... Hitler's Olympics

Hitler swept to power in the mid-1930s and set out to stage the most extravagant Olympics

• 4 mins

Hitler's Olympics

Part 1: The Blue-Eyed Tornado

In the early 1930s, Hitler granted a rare interview to US journalist Dorothy Thompson.

• 36 mins

Hitler's Olympics

Part 2: Pangloss, Polonius, Prufrock

Faced with a moral dilemma, America needed the wisdom of Solomon. But it got Sherrill.

• 32 mins

Hitler's Olympics

Part 3: Mustache to Mustache

The wolf met with the chicken. Guess who won?

• 35 mins

Hitler's Olympics

Part 4: Outcast in Olympia

The cheerleader for the American Olympic movement was a tycoon named Avery Brundage.

• 41 mins

Hitler's Olympics

Part 5: The Amateur鈥檚 Hour

A German Jewish high-jumper is determined to get her shot at Olympic greatness.

• 37 mins

Hitler's Olympics

Part 6: The Jiggle & the Giddy Up

What really happened at the long jump pit that day between Jesse Owens and Luz Long?

• 38 mins

Hitler's Olympics

Hitler鈥檚 Olympics, Part 7: Long Jump, Tall Tale

The hidden life of one of America鈥檚 iconic sports heroes, Jesse Owens.

• 44 mins

Hitler's Olympics

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.

• 34 mins

Hitler's Olympics

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?

• 45 mins

Saigon, 1965

In the 1960s the Pentagon set up a research project in an old villa in downtown Saigon.

• 41 mins