How did The Movies That Made Us end up on Netflix?

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The docuseries that uses humor to tell the behind-the-scenes stories of iconic movies is from producer/director Brian Volk-Weiss, a former manager of comedians who is a big fan of documentaries. "So we did this show called The Toys That Made Us, which is exactly what The Movies That Made Us is, except about toys," he says. "After season one came out, Netflix asked me to come in and talk about the future. It’s kind of funny, we conservatively spent at least 100, but it could have been 125 hours, making a sales tape and a deck, probably an 80 or 90-page deck about The Games That Made Us. And we worked on it for about five or six weeks. All hands on deck. Then, I don’t even remember what made me do this, but like literally the day before the meeting, I asked our art department to photoshop Frank Sinatra’s head on the famous picture of Bruce Willis standing in front of the Nakatomi Plaza building from the Die Hard poster because I knew that Die Hard was actually a sequel to a Frank Sinatra movie. So I went to the Netflix meeting and 80% of the meeting was about The Games That Made Us and then the exec in the room was like, 'Hey, what’s in the tube?' I took the poster out of the tube and, as always, proving that God has a sense of humor, the thing we spend 100-plus hours on did not move forward at that time—The Movies That Made Us did."