The writer gets to thinking, “What is the deal? Is it real, is it true? What’s the story? How does this work?” And he starts trying to find the woman and he finds himself unspooling this whole system of zombie culture there. The woman’s name…I think it’s pronounced Nadat. This guy was living in Haiti, the actual writer, and he starts hearing about how there’s a zombie in town. Nobody talks about this story even though it was the best story of the year. “Into the Zombie Underworld” by Mischa Berlinski I have a list of several other articles that I think also would make great films on the big screen. I wrote a piece several years ago in Wired magazine about a CIA mission during the Iran hostage crisis which, miraculously, has been adapted into the feature film Argo. Here is his list of other must-read features that should get the big-screen treatment. But he’s best known for a Wired magazine piece called “Escape from Tehran: How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans from Iran.” That article inspired one of the year’s most celebrated movies, Argo. Journalist Josh Bearman has written for Harper’s, Rolling Stone and many other outlets you may have also heard his stories on This American Life.

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