Show Notes
A movie was rejected by Hollywood more than 40 times. A mechanical shark almost ended a 27-year-old director’s career. And one of the greatest films ever made premiered before it was even finished.
Connor Tomlinson and Carter Roy dig into the unbelievable stories behind Back to the Future, Jaws, and Apocalypse Now. Each movie came dangerously close to never making it to the big screen. But somehow, the disaster that nearly killed each one became part of what made it great.
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You watched Connor Tomlinson fall in love on Love on the Spectrum. Now he is here to make you fall in love with history. Every week on What the Fact, Connor and co-host Carter Roy pull three unbelievable true things from history and tell you the whole story behind each one. The facts that sound made up. The stories that got buried. The moments that changed everything.