WHAT WENT WRONG

By: Sad Boom Media
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  • What Went Wrong covers Hollywood’s most notoriously disastrous movie productions, digging into the behind-the-scenes insanity of everything from massive flops to record-breaking blockbusters. In each episode, hosts Lizzie Bassett and Chris Winterbauer dive into a new film to explore the mind-blowing (and sometimes numbing) reasons why making a movie is nearly impossible (especially a good one). Produced by David Boman.

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Episodes
  • Below The Line - Casting Director (Abbott Elementary, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
    Mar 10 2025

    Chris and Lizzie speak with the incredible, Emmy-winning Casting Director, Wendy O'Brien (Abbott Elementary, Dave, It's Always Sunny, Wyrm). Enjoy a conversation about how this role is different from what you might think, how it has changed in a post-Covid world, what it's like to work with Chris, and much more.

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    41 mins
  • Some Like It Hot
    Mar 3 2025

    Marilyn Monroe can’t remember her lines, Jack Lemmon can’t walk in heels, and Billy Wilder is slipping sleeping pills up his tuchus. ‘Some Like It Hot’ is a groundbreaking comedy that nearly broke writer/director Billy Wilder. Join Chris and Lizzie as they break down Billy Wilder’s struggles with Marilyn, and Marilyn’s relationships with her overbearing husband and acting coach, and find out why Tony Curtis allegedly called her Hitler.

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    1 hr and 34 mins
  • Malcolm X
    Feb 17 2025

    Three decades of development hell, a dozen drafts and one very embattled director. This week, Chris and Lizzie explore the tumultuous journey of Malcolm X, Spike Lee’s unusual path to the directing chair, and how the public battle over the civil rights leader’s story nearly eclipsed the story itself.

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    1 hr and 36 mins

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Very Insightful

Great to hear the stories behind some of my favorite movies. A must for any cinemaphile.

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great

really good podcast and super fun. love the hosts! looking forward to new episodes and enjoying the old ones.

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Thoroughly Researched and Pleasantly Presented

This podcast was an accidental discovery. What a wonderful accident it's proven to be. Lizzie and Chris are knowledgeable, passionate, and bring both whimsy and humanity to stories one would never think could be so engrossing. Many episodes on the... less enjoyable films are almost miraculously made interesting. That's a testament to the hosts' abilities. This one is already great and with such fertile ground in subject matter, the quality is evergreen.

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