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The ‘Only Murders in the Building’ Musical, Death Rattle, Is Basically Real · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. The latest season of
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Speaker 1: Selena Gomez has hit show Only Murders in the Building
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Speaker 1: features a musical called Death Rattle woven into its storyline,
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Speaker 1: a fiction one made just for the show, but with
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Speaker 1: very real music, written by the Tony and Oscar winning
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Speaker 1: songwriter duo Bench Pissec and Justin Paul, who were recruited
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Speaker 1: to give the songs their authenticity, and in turn, Bene
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Speaker 1: tells The Hollywood Reporter they were presented with a fully
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Speaker 1: realized musical concept to help inspire them, even though it
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Speaker 1: wouldn't be on TV. He says he got an entire
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Speaker 1: synopsis of what Death Rattle is, even though a lot
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Speaker 1: of that's not actually shown in the show. It was
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Speaker 1: completely thought out by the writers. However absurd it sounds
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Speaker 1: on paper, it really was a complete musical idea with
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Speaker 1: character development and all that. Viewers only see glimpses of
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Speaker 1: the story, but that's how thorough and beautifully attentive the
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Speaker 1: writers were to make sure we had a foundation that
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Speaker 1: really could serve us as we tried to parallel the stories.
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Speaker 1: The words of Bene Pisseck, Only Murders in the Building
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Speaker 1: is on Hulu that's direct from Hollywood,