![]() Like, how could we have grown up in America and never heard about this story?” We started doing some research, and sure enough, everything he had told us actually did happen - so we jumped in. Mac and I just kind of looked at each other, like, “There’s no way this is true. ![]() He said he had this never-before-seen collection of 300 hours of archive footage on what he described as “the most bizarre story that ever happened in the history of Oregon.” He gave us a quick 30-second elevator pitch and told us about this guru and his followers who built this $100 million utopian city, and that they took over the local town and then bused in thousands of homeless people and armed themselves with assault rifles and then tried to take over the county and ended up poisoning 750 people. The head film archivist at the Oregon Historical Society asked Mac and I what we were doing for our next project. How did the idea for the show come about?ĬHAPMAN WAY We spent a lot of time in the archives up in Oregon when we were doing The Battered Bastards of Baseball. The Way brothers spoke with THR about the genesis of the series, the one former cult member they couldn’t get to talk and how they feel about a potential fictionalized retelling of the wild, wild story.
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