Oscar-nominated filmmaker Heidi Ewing (Jesus Camp, Detropia) joins Amy and Avi to open the drawer on How to Tame a Fox — her shelved script about two Soviet biologists who secretly tried to domesticate wild foxes in Siberia while Stalin was busy persecuting anyone who liked science.

Based on the true story of Lyudmila Trut and Dmitri Belyaev, this is a Cold War thriller disguised as an animal story — or an animal story disguised as a Cold War thriller, depending on how you feel about foxes that eventually sing.

Heidi wrote a full pilot during COVID, had a dream cast (Daniel Day-Lewis, Cate Blanchett, Joaquin Phoenix), and then Putin invaded Ukraine and tanked the mood for celebrating Russian scientists. Timing is everything.

We fed the script into our AI pipeline, generated a new pitch deck and trailer, and let our AI executive Finn weigh in. Heidi's verdict: still a f***ing good idea. We agree.

Some projects don't die. They just wait.

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Every unmade film deserves a score. Here's how ours got one. From the backlot of the show, musician Joe McGinty takes us behind the scenes on how he composed the theme music for Films Not Made! From groovy Conn Electric Band drum beats, to Moog boogie bass lines, to ARP arpeggios, Musonics Vanilla melody, and more.

Have listen and enjoy!

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When Christopher Nolan options the same Oppenheimer biography you've been developing for a decade, is it a tragedy or just really, really bad timing?

Writer-director Robert Edwards joins Amy and Avi to discuss his adaptation of "American Prometheus," the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer that he optioned in 2006—long before Christopher Nolan made it a billion-dollar blockbuster.

The episode captures both the heartbreak of near-misses in Hollywood and the strange consolation of being crushed by one of the greatest filmmakers alive.

We discuss what it means to have “your” film made by someone else, the ethics and anxiety around AI in filmmaking, and why Edwards’ take—an “atomic noir” focused on Oppenheimer’s 1954 security hearing—might still have life as OTHERHEIMER.

Robert Edwards — Writer/Director (Land of the Blind, When I Live My Life Over Again)
The King's Necktie "My One-Way Rivalry with Christopher Nolan": https://thekingsnecktie.substack.com/p/my-one-way-rivalry-with-christopher
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0250315/

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