Serial: The Movie isn’t happening—for now
Serial. If you are on the Internet, you’ve probably heard of it, and unless you are a contrarian type who refuses to do things simply because they are popular—or you have a rare and medically unprecedented allergy to anything Ira Glass-related—you may very well have heard an episode or nine. Serial’s exceptional popularity (it set a record for the fastest podcast to reach five million downloads earlier this week) has naturally caught the attention of Hollywood producers, who have been courting agents for Serial’s parent podcast This American Life with offers to produce a movie version of the nonfiction crime drama.