Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
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Wikidata Q1330737, film, IMDb tt0086491, TMDB 15301: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only film by that title; 2 more episodes agree.
What a model would be handed about it, for corpus:ask.
Who talked about it
The Big Picture
Came from
What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.
No line says it drew on another film or person.
Led to
What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.
No line says another film or person drew on it.
Connected to
John Landis: 1 line unmapped ×1
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unmapped (set tragedy):
Twilight Zone: The Movie → John Landis.
A helicopter stunt killed Vic Morrow and two children; Landis was prosecuted and acquitted.
“A helicopter crashed during a stunt and Vic Morrow, Jennifer Jason Lee's father, was killed along with 2 children during the making of this movie”
The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:53:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
Where it came up
- passing in Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Last Temptation of Christ with Jamelle Bouie, first at 2:23:26, 1 time
- passing in Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri, first at 2:51:49, 1 time
- anecdote in The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture, first at 0:53:11, 2 times
- passing in Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior with David Lowery (Ad-Free), first at 2:09:34, 1 time
What was said about it, by kind
unmapped (1)
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unmapped (set tragedy):
Twilight Zone: The Movie → John Landis.
A helicopter stunt killed Vic Morrow and two children; Landis was prosecuted and acquitted.
“A helicopter crashed during a stunt and Vic Morrow, Jennifer Jason Lee's father, was killed along with 2 children during the making of this movie”
The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:53:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
Fun items about it
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fun, about
Twilight Zone: The Movie:
An episode of the Shudder series Cursed covers the 1982 set death of Vic Morrow and two children in a helicopter stunt; Landis was acquitted.
“A helicopter crashed during a stunt and Vic Morrow, Jennifer Jason Lee's father, was killed along with 2 children during the making of this movie”
The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:53:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
Who the speakers said made it
As said on the shows, not checked against the real credits.
- John Landis: filmmaker prosecuted and acquitted over the accident (The Big Picture, Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture)
- Vic Morrow: actor killed in the helicopter stunt (The Big Picture, Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture)
- Jennifer Jason Lee: Vic Morrow's daughter (mentioned as identifier) (The Big Picture, Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture)