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I Am Superman with Patty Jenkins | Development Hell
Season 10 Episode 5
Between her big hits, “Monster” and “Wonder Woman”, Patty Jenkins wrote an R-rated fairy tale, starring a dog. She hoped that the dog would deliver such a great performance that the Academy would — f…
Published on 1 year, 8 months ago
Pushkin Hosts Celebrate World Happiness Day
Season 8 Episode 10
The Happiness Lab’s Dr. Laurie Santos brings together other Pushkin hosts to mark the International Day of Happiness. Revisionist History’s Malcolm Gladwell talks about the benefits of the misery of …
Published on 1 year, 8 months ago
The Birthday Party with Charles Randolph | Development Hell
Season 10 Episode 4
Before Charles Randolph won an Oscar for writing “The Big Short,” he adapted a memoir called “The Birthday Party”: the true story of a white man kidnapped by three young Black men. Is there a way to …
Published on 1 year, 9 months ago
Bubbles with Isaac Adamson | Development Hell
Season 10 Episode 3
This is the story behind a biopic about a chimpanzee named Bubbles, sidekick to the King of Pop. Malcolm talks with the writer, Isaac Adamson, about the project’s rise and fall. Netflix optioned the …
Published on 1 year, 9 months ago
Oscar Season with Talk Easy
Season 10
Development Hell will return on Thursday with an all-new episode about a chimpanzee. In the meantime, here's a Hollywood-related episode from our friends at Talk Easy. Host Sam Fragoso talks with the…
Published on 1 year, 9 months ago
The Variable Man with Gary Goldman and Angus Fletcher | Development Hell
Season 10 Episode 2
Gary Goldman was a writer on “Total Recall”, a Philip K. Dick adaptation directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Arnold Schwarzeneger. It was a big hit. So why do Gary and his writing partner, Angus …
Published on 1 year, 9 months ago
Blink with Stephen Gaghan | Development Hell
Season 10 Episode 1
It’s the mid-2000s, Malcolm and writer/producer Stephen Gaghan (“Traffic”, “Syriana”) are running around Hollywood pitching their scripted adaptation of Blink. This conversation starts with a failed …
Published on 1 year, 9 months ago
Welcome to Development Hell
Season 10
Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. On February 29th, Revisionist History is returning with Development Hell, a series of untold stories about Hollywood projects that never left the page. There's a …
Published on 1 year, 9 months ago
Revisionist History LIVE with Nate Berkus
Season 9 Episode 14
Malcolm Gladwell sits with interior design legend Nate Berkus in a live conversation covering everything from travel, to their moms, prestige TV, and finding the places that can cure us of melancholy…
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
The IT Revolution
Season 9 Episode 13
The digital revolution has been happening for a while now, but with 5G, it’s about to reach a whole new level. IT departments are about to rule the world. So in this paid partnership with T-Mobile fo…
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago