Blank Check — Patreon: Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free)

Published 2023-10-08; 2:53:05 by the feed.

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The extraction calls the show “Blank Check with Griffin & David (Patreon)” and the episode “Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free)”.

Hosts: Griffin Newman, David Sims, Ben Hosley. Guests: Eva Anderson.

Subject films: Panic Room (2002).

On the transcript: No speaker labels; many attributions are unknown. The transcript renders the Panic Room film-credit names poorly and the first 11 minutes are a long Studio 60 tangent.

Added from the extractor's memory, not said

Corrected spellings (Koepp, Khondji, Bauchau, Verbinski, Schulze, Panettiere, Stormare, Singer, Adamson, Ayer, McDowell) come from my memory of the real names; no facts were added beyond the speakers' attachments.
Anna and the King and The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys are my guesses at mangled titles.

Films that came up

Claims (44)

unmapped (template for): Panic Room → Flight Plan. A host says Panic Room set the template for what looked like Foster's next phase of adult thrillers.
“And I do think it's sort of set a template for what felt like, oh, this is Jody Foster's next phase that then went sort of died prematurely.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:01:44 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career comparison): Kristen Stewart → Jodie Foster. A host says Stewart is one of the few child stars to get a Jodie Foster type career.
“she's one of the few who has gotten to have a Jody Foster type career.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:23:10 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (response to): Fight Club → Panic Room. A host says Panic Room is a conscious response to Fight Club, which flopped and tried to be about everything.
“Yes. And I feel like it's a very conscious response to fight club.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:24:52 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (set the template for): Panic Room → Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. A host says Fincher's all-previs approach on this film created the pipeline for how blockbusters are made.
“But that disc 2 is so much about that he basically created the pipeline for how all fucking blockbusters are made on this movie.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:31:38 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Mel Brooks → Panic Room. The hosts pitch Mel Brooks directing a spoof called Panic Attack Room.
“Mel Brooks should have done that.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:32:26 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (storyboard artist): Peter Ramsey → Panic Room. The main storyboard artist on Panic Room later directed Rise of the Guardians and the first Spider-Verse.
“Oh, I think the main storyboard artist on this film was Peter Ramsey, who then goes on to direct Rise of the Guardians in the 1st Spider-Verse.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:32:55 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (novel adapted): James Ellroy → The Black Dahlia. Fincher circled the Black Dahlia, which is based on an Ellroy novel.
“And then Fincher starts circling the Black Dahlia, based on a James Roy novel, Elroy novel.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:38:33 · David Sims (0.70 sure it was them)
unmapped (replaced Fincher): The Black Dahlia → Brian De Palma. After studios balked at a miniseries, De Palma took over the project.
“Back then, studios balked at that kind of idea, and Brian de Palma takes over.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:39:11 · David Sims (0.70 sure it was them)
unmapped (replaced Fincher): The Mexican → Gore Verbinski. Fincher was linked to The Mexican after Reynolds, but Verbinski ended up making it.
“Gorvinski ends up making that movie.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:40:16 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (made by someone else): Catch Me If You Can → Steven Spielberg. Fincher was linked to Catch Me If You Can, which Spielberg made.
“which Spielberg makes.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:41:24 · David Sims (0.70 sure it was them)
unmapped (made by someone else): Confessions of a Dangerous Mind → George Clooney. Fincher was linked to Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, which Clooney eventually made.
“Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, which George Clooney eventually makes.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:41:26 · David Sims (0.70 sure it was them)
what-if (director hired instead): Spider-Man → Sam Raimi. Sony passed on Fincher and hired Raimi, in keeping with wanting a director with a take.
“you look at them ultimately hiring Raimi and really letting him go off.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:46:05 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (carried-over injury): Moulin Rouge! → Panic Room. Kidman's knee was injured on Moulin Rouge and not healed, and she reinjured it on Panic Room.
“The whole thing with her knee was that she had actually injured at making Milan Rouge and not known.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:50:06 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
career (unmade passion project): Jodie Foster → Flora Plum. Foster's passion project Flora Plum never got made after Russell Crowe hurt himself preparing.
“Jody Foster was supposed to make Flora Plum, which is one of her grand passion project movies that never got made.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:53:16 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if casting): Jodie Foster → The Game. Foster was supposed to be in The Game, in the part Sean Penn played.
“She was supposed to be in the game.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:53:33 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
people (earlier near-collaboration): Jodie Foster → Mank. Foster and Fincher had circled each other before, including about Mank.
“She had talked to him about mink, which is like already a thing.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:53:43 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (comparison (Fincher's words)): Nicole Kidman → Grace Kelly. Fincher compares Kidman to Grace Kelly, glamour and physicality, versus Foster, who is about her eyes.
“as Fincher puts it, you know, your, you know, Nicole Kidman, Grace Kelly.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:55:00 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
unmapped (turned down): Jodie Foster → Hannibal. Foster turned down $15 million to be in Hannibal, calling it gross, and was attacked in the press.
“Jody Foster had famously to turn down $15 million to be in Hannibal because she thought it was.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:59:13 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
unmapped (replaced Foster): Julianne Moore → Hannibal. Julianne Moore replaced Foster as Starling.
“I mean, Julie Moore replaces.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:59:44 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
people (led to casting): Sling Blade → Panic Room. A host says Yoakam was cast in Panic Room off of Sling Blade.
“That was kind of what he got cast off over.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 1:02:00 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (first choice for Raul): Maynard (James) Keenan → Panic Room. Maynard James Keenan was the first choice for Raul but was busy with A Perfect Circle.
“But the 1st choice was Maynard, James Keenan.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 1:02:06 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (offered to direct): Forest Whitaker → Panic Room. Whitaker was offered the Panic Room script to direct before Fincher came on.
“Do you know, at one point, he was offered this script to direct earlier before Fentrick came on?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 1:10:30 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
people (same year, shared actor): Panic Room → Phone Booth. Whitaker is also very good in Phone Booth, released the same year.
“This is the same year as Phone Booth Panic Run.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 1:11:08 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
people (shared lead actor): Panic Room → Fight Club. Fincher put Jared Leto through physical abuse in both Fight Club and Panic Room.
“Because in the fight club as well, he gets a shipping down.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 1:15:03 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (aspiration): Jared Leto → Fargo. A host wonders if Leto is trying to be Buscemi in Fargo.
“oh, is he, is he going full Bushemi and Fargo?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 1:16:04 · Eva Anderson (0.50 sure it was them)
craft (shared structure): Panic Room → The Mist. A host compares the stuck-until-it-resolves dread of Panic Room to The Mist.
“It's like, it's like, it's like the mist.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 1:28:32 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
craft (visual comparison): Panic Room → Gone Girl. A host says Panic Room's antiseptic, fluorescent look anticipates Gone Girl.
“Like, not eight, but like, it looks like Gone Girl.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 1:30:27 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
people (cinematographer who left): Darius Khondji → Panic Room. Khondji was hired as DP, then was off the movie early; the speakers disagree about whether he quit or was fired.
“Sorry, just Doris Kanji was hired as the DP on this movie.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 1:32:07 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
people (prior collaborator): Darius Khondji → David Fincher. Fincher had worked with Khondji before, and Khondji never works with him again.
“who Fincher had worked with.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 1:32:13 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (son of): Conrad W. Hall → Conrad Hall. The Panic Room DP is the son of the legendary cinematographer Conrad Hall.
“Yep, the son of Conrad. Legendary Conrad H. Hall, cinematographer who had just passed away.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 1:32:46 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (camera operator): Conrad W. Hall → Seven. The replacement DP had been a camera operator on Seven and Fight Club.
“He been a camera operator on uh 7 in Fight Club.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 1:33:04 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (camera operator): Conrad W. Hall → Fight Club. The replacement DP had been a camera operator on Seven and Fight Club.
“He been a camera operator on uh 7 in Fight Club.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 1:33:04 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (tonal comparison): Panic Room → Home Alone. The back-and-forth between burglars and the family is compared to Home Alone.
“it's like Fincher doing Home Alone, right?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 1:40:31 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
people (recurring collaborator): Dwight Yoakam → Vince Vaughn. Yoakam becomes Vince Vaughn's guy who pops up in his movies.
“Dwight Yoakam becomes like his guy, who always has pop-up in the movies.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 2:06:40 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
people (shared actor and type): Sling Blade → Panic Room. In both films Yoakam plays a realistic sadist, which is why he works.
“I feel like in both this and Slingblade, the thing that works is that Yokum is playing a realistic sadist.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 2:11:03 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
people (cameo): Andrew Kevin Walker → Panic Room. The writer of Seven plays the sleepy neighbor who closes his blinds.
“Andrew Kevin Walker, the writer of seven, plays the sleepy neighbor.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 2:13:46 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (screenwriter): Andrew Kevin Walker → Seven. Walker is named as the writer of Seven.
“Andrew Kevin Walker, the writer of seven, plays the sleepy neighbor.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 2:13:46 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (screenwriter): Andrew Kevin Walker → The Killer. A host says Walker wrote the new Killer, and others note the graphic novel is a cool thing to adapt.
“He wrote the killer.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 2:14:04 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (model for the villains): Fargo → Panic Room. A host feels Panic Room's funny villain and scary villain pair uses the Buscemi and Stormare model from Fargo.
“But I'm realizing how much wisely it does feel like they're sort of using the model of Bushemi and Stoneman.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 2:20:45 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career phase contrast): Panic Room → The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. A host says Fincher's later airport-paperback thrillers deepen the text where Panic Room is mostly craft.
“And I think later when he gets to what I'd call his airport paperback thriller phase, right?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 2:31:28 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (midpoint between): Panic Room → The Brave One. Flight Plan is fluffy and The Brave One is too rooted in reality, and Panic Room is the midpoint.
“And Brave one is too rooted in reality and this is sort of the midpoint between...”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 2:32:26 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
industry (marketing dispute): Sony → Panic Room. Fincher was angry that Sony marketed the film on his name as a prestige movie.
“Fincher was really mad at how Sony marketed the movie.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 2:33:55 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (intended audience comparison): Panic Room → Kiss the Girls. Fincher says Panic Room is for people who go to see Kiss the Girls and The Bone Collector, a popcorn movie.
“this is movies made for people who went, go to see like kiss the girls and the bone collector.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 2:34:09 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (intended audience comparison): Panic Room → The Bone Collector. Fincher says Panic Room is for people who go to see Kiss the Girls and The Bone Collector, a popcorn movie.
“this is movies made for people who went, go to see like kiss the girls and the bone collector.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 2:34:09 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items (24)

fun, about Panic Room: The new New York studio the show records in turned out to be a built panic room, windowless and fortress-like.
“And we found out this was, in fact, intended to be a panic room.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:19:40 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Panic Room: The 3-disc special edition has two discs of nothing but pre- and post-production material, a film school in a box.
“There is a notorious 3 disc special edition of this film that sort of peaked DVD special features where there are 2 discs of nothing but special features.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:31:10 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Panic Room: Fincher previs'd everything and handed the crew exact shots, which worked but arguably broke his brain; he takes five years off afterward.
“And that was his whole thought was, I can just make this whole movie in advance, and then everyone just knows what to do.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:34:04 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Nicole Kidman: If Fincher had shut the film down after Kidman's injury, the insurance would have paid out a profit.
“They basically, I mean, the numbers I saw, there was some sort of calculation of like, if they had shut the movie down and just never started filming again, they would have made $3000000 off the insurance.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:51:42 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Jodie Foster: Foster had nine days to prep, then told Fincher five weeks in that she was pregnant.
“And then she starts making the movie 5 weeks into the shoot, she sits down with David Hinchon. She's like, I'm pregnant.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:59:49 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Panic Room: They shot around the pregnancy in oversized sweaters, finished the film to screen it for the studio, then reshot after the baby.
“They basically like finished the movie in order to screen the movie for them to then get the money to go back and reshoot the stuff after she'd had the kid.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 1:00:41 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Panic Room: Maynard James Keenan of Tool was the first choice for Raul but was busy with A Perfect Circle.
“But the 1st choice was Maynard, James Keenan.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 1:02:06 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Forest Whitaker: Test audiences felt too sympathetic toward Whitaker, so they cut in alternate takes of him looking less bummed out.
“What I, maybe my interpretation of this was wrong, that they used alternate takes for the rest of the film to make him less sympathetic up until that point.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 1:05:30 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Forest Whitaker: Eva was Whitaker's driver for two weeks on a pre-movie turn-off-your-phone commercial in 2006, and the sponsor killed its political speech overnight.
“But, um, so, but I was his driver and his, like, kind of chaperoned for 2 weeks.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 1:07:37 · Eva Anderson (0.90 sure it was them)
fun, about Jared Leto: Eva got a gift from Leto in character as Adam Neumann.
“He sent me a gift as Adam Newman.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 1:13:43 · Eva Anderson (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Jared Leto: Fincher on casting Leto: the gold teeth did not convince him, but the corn rows did.
“He went away, came back with corn rose in his hair. And I thought, oh my god, this speaks to so much to him being like a wannabe hard guy.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 1:14:46 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Jared Leto: For Chapter 27 Leto reportedly melted Ben and Jerry's in a microwave and chugged it, developed gout, and nobody wanted to see the movie.
“this multiple times, but he literally would buy pints of Ben and Jerry's, put them in the microwave, melt them and chug them.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 1:20:36 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Darius Khondji: The previs was built for Kidman, who is close to 6 feet; Foster is 5'3, so the crew built a riser called the Nicole box.
“They ended up building a box that was the exact height difference between the 2 of them that I think they called the Nicole box that just made Jody Foster Nicole size.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 1:34:09 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Jodie Foster: Why Foster works for this role: she never projects less than total competence.
“Foster never projects anything less than 100% competency and certainty.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 1:37:51 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Panic Room: The makeup team behind the broken-collarbone effect traces to a Fincher memory of watching a hurt person's collarbone move as they spoke.
“Was talking to someone whose collarbone had just been broken, was with them in the immediate aftermath of that, and that when they were talking on the syllables, he could see their colorbone moving up and down.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 1:56:33 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Panic Room: The prosthetics shop behind it went extreme to become Fincher's default guys.
“they so badly want to be in his good graces that they were just like, we're going to do everything so extreme so that we become his default guys.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 1:57:10 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Panic Room: The movie skips the dull insulin-reminder setup scene; the diabetes is just there and pays off later.
“The movie never has the really boring scene of like, don't forget to take your insulin.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 1:57:48 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Kristen Stewart: Fincher said he would get Stewart up to Foster's level through lots of takes.
“We're going to get her up to Jody Foster's level by doing lots of takes.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 1:59:38 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about The Minus Man: Its trailer is a couple walking out of the movie discussing the ending, then a drowned swimmer, with no footage from the film.
“The minus man has a trailer that is a couple walking out of seeing the minus man going, so what did you think of the ending?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 2:05:29 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Cry Macho: David describes it as a movie whose only tension is whether Clint will make it through a scene without a nap.
“Is Will Clint be able to make it through without taking a nap?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 2:08:25 · Ben Hosley (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Panic Room: In the opening titles, you can see the next credit floating in the distance, including Jodie Foster's name five blocks away.
“You can see the corner of Jody Foster's name 5 blocks away.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 2:10:42 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Andrew Kevin Walker: The writer of Seven plays the sleepy neighbor who closes his blinds on the Morse code signal.
“Andrew Kevin Walker, the writer of seven, plays the sleepy neighbor.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 2:13:46 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Panic Room: Sony wanted a PG-13 cut; Fincher had final cut and refused.
“Sony wanted to make it a PG-13 movie and Fincher had final cut and refused.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 2:33:33 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Taxi (TV series): The Taxi theme was a sad instrumental written for episode two after the first, more upbeat theme.
“And then in episode two, there was a sad scene and they asked him to write an instrumental track for that.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 2:43:08 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Who's talking

Griffin Newman (host): Obsessive movie nerd who tracked every upcoming film as a 13-year-old and has a soft spot for Kristen Stewart. Loves craft and box office lore, recoils from suspense that stresses him out.
David Sims (host): Fincher fan from a 16-year-old Empire-reading start in England; loves Clint Eastwood late-career oddities and reads the dossier. Thinks Panic Room is deeper than a B-programmer.
Ben Hosley (host): Producer in the room; Tool fan in high school, squeamish about the seizure scenes, and dismissive of razor scooters.
Eva Anderson (guest): TV writer and Doughboys regular; USC film school grad who loves Kristen Stewart and Clint Eastwood stories and tells production anecdotes. Likes thrillers with precision acting.

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Names the transcriber got wrong

Black Jack / back check = Blank Check
Jody Foster = Jodie Foster (spelling variant)
David Kepp = David Koepp
Doris Kanji / Darius Kanji = Darius Khondji
Patrick Picow = Patrick Bauchau (guess from context: the dad)
Paul Scholes / Paul Schulz = Paul Schulze
in magnet = Magnuson (Ann Magnuson, the real estate agent)
Forrest Whitaker / Whitter / Fentrick = Forest Whitaker / Fincher
Gorvinski = Gore Verbinski
Brian Singer = Bryan Singer
Andrew Robinson = Andrew Adamson; Trek = Shrek
Ultra Boys = The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (guess from the year and Foster)
N and the king = Anna and the King (guess)
Dulori = unclear Cirque du Soleil IMAX film title
Dwight Jokiman / Yokum = Dwight Yoakam
Hayden Pantier = Hayden Panettiere
Hinchon / Finisher = Fincher
Kelamutz = Kellan Lutz
Bushemi / Stoneman = Buscemi / Stormare
Liv Ulman = Liv Ullmann; Manny Moretti = Nanni Moretti
Dino DeLorentis = Dino De Laurentiis
Charlie McDonald = Charlie McDowell
mink = Mank

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