Imagine being the most famous man on the planet at 24, only to be entirely written off by the industry before you hit 35.
Hollywood is notoriously ruthless, a machine built to chew up teen idols and spit them into obscurity.
By the late 1980s, the man who had once defined American pop culture couldn't even get a call back from major studios.
But what followed wasn't a quiet fade into obscurity—it was a miraculous, blood-spattered, twisting comeback that rewrote the rules of fame.
This is the story of John Travolta, the ultimate survivor of the Hollywood meat grinder.