Panic Room (2002)

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The Rewatchables' awards

From ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey (2022-03-29):

Most rewatchable scene

pick The robbers show up.
“I just wrote down the robbers show up.”
Bill Simmons · 0:43:56
floated The opening walk-through of the house, which sets up the spatial layout.
“The robbers, can I just say, I do think that that intro scene when they walk through the house, though, is pretty critical to the movie to just giving you the spatial awareness of everything.”
unknown · 0:45:14
pick Meg finds out the robbers are in the house.
“Jody finds out they're in the house.”
Bill Simmons · 0:46:41
pick Meg goes for her phone while Whitaker talks in slow motion.
“Jody gets her phone.”
Bill Simmons · 0:51:15
pick Junior blurts out how much money is really in the safe.
“Leto screws up and says how much money is really in the safe is my next rewatch.”
Bill Simmons · 0:51:50
pick The switcheroo with the dad and Raul, a little Silence of the Lambs homage.
“So the switcheroo with the dad and Raul.”
unknown · 0:53:43
pick The ending, everything that happens.
“Last one is just the ending.”
unknown · 0:54:18
pick Running the propane gas into the panic room.
“huge one is running the gas into the panic room.”
Sean Fennessey · 0:54:24
pick The propane tank sequence: Junior banging on the wall, the argument over turning the tank off.
“I'm going to take the propane tanks.”
Chris Ryan · 0:56:31

Roger Ebert review · The hosts read Roger Ebert's review of the film.

pick Panic Room: Three stars; Ebert calls Fincher a visual virtuoso and Foster spellbinding.
“All right, Roger Ebert, 3 stars.”
Bill Simmons · 0:41:56

Casting what-ifs · Who was almost cast, or replaced, in the film.

pick Nicole Kidman as Meg Altman: Cast first, hurt her knee and was replaced by Jodie Foster.
“This usually doesn't happen, but Nicole Kidman was cast as the role in the role of Meg.”
Chris Ryan · 0:34:25
pick Angelina Jolie as Meg Altman: Mentioned in passing as someone considered for the part.
“It's like an Angelina Jolie part almost, which is interesting because I think they considered Angelina for this.”
Bill Simmons · 0:26:07
pick Hayden Panettiere as Sarah: Originally cast in the Kristen Stewart role and left the project.
“So Hayden Painted Tier was originally cast in the Kristen Stewart row and, um, left the project toward the end of 2000.”
Bill Simmons · 1:12:31
pick Maynard James Keenan as Raul: Offered Raul first; Bill calls it possibly the greatest casting what-if in the show's history.
“The role of Raul was originally offered to Maynard James Keenan.”
Bill Simmons · 1:13:08
pick Anthony Hopkins as Stephen Altman: Jodie owes him; she won him an Oscar.
“Have him played by Anthony Hopkins.”
Bill Simmons · 1:16:14
pick Michael Douglas as Stephen Altman: Foster was once attached to Douglas's film; doubts he would have taken the beating.
“I think Michael Douglas would have been a great cameo, Steven, especially I don't think he would have wanted the shit kicked out.”
unknown · 1:16:28
pick Ted Levine as Raul
“Ted Levine in the Dwight Yoakam part.”
Bill Simmons · 1:16:55
pick Wes Studi as Raul: Offered as a wild card while running through the cast of Heat.
“Here's my my wild card would be Wes Study.”
unknown · 1:17:38
pick Tom Sizemore as Raul: Named as the answer from the Heat cast.
“Sizemore, I think, is the answer.”
unknown · 1:17:57

Best That Guy (Joey Pants Award) · The best that-guy actor in a small part.

winner Paul Schulze as a cop at the door: Bill confuses whether he was on Oz or The Sopranos, which the hosts take as the sign of a winner.
“I had either father fell from the Sopranos, who I thought was the guy from us, or the realtor who was also on every soap opera, including General Hospital, and I think was feeding with Robert Scorpio at one.30 years ago.”
Bill Simmons · 1:14:39
nominee the realtor (soap opera actor) as the realtor: Put up alongside the cop.
“I had either father fell from the Sopranos, who I thought was the guy from us, or the realtor who was also on every soap opera, including General Hospital, and I think was feeding with Robert Scorpio at one.30 years ago.”
Bill Simmons · 1:14:39

Vincent Hanna Award · Best overacting.

winner Jared Leto as Junior
“Our guy Leto just dials it up.”
Bill Simmons · 1:15:00

Dion Waiters Award · Small role, big impact; the hosts debate who is eligible in a five-hander.

nominee Dwight Yoakam as Raul: Bill doubts he is eligible because he is in it a lot.
“DM waiters are where it's got to be Raul.”
Bill Simmons · 1:15:05
winner Jared Leto as Junior: Joking retroactive ruling; the hosts decide Raul or Junior can qualify.
“So retroactively, we'd like to announce Dion Waiters, Jared Leto.”
Bill Simmons · 1:15:50

Apex Mountain · Where a person or thing sits on the mountain for this film.

nominee David Fincher: Not an apex.
“Apex Mountain, Fincher?”
Bill Simmons · 1:22:55
nominee Jodie Foster as Meg Altman: Not an apex; her peak is Silence of the Lambs.
“Foster, no.”
Bill Simmons · 1:22:59
nominee Kristen Stewart as Sarah: Not an apex.
“Kristen Stewart, no.”
Bill Simmons · 1:23:01
nominee Diabetes in a movie: Not clearly the best use; Dog Day Afternoon floated as better.
“Diabetes in a movie?”
Bill Simmons · 1:23:19
nominee Forrest Whitaker: Not an apex.
“Forrest Whitaker?”
Bill Simmons · 1:24:22
winner The panic room itself: Apex because the whole movie is built around it.
“I mean, whole movie's built around a panic room.”
unknown · 1:24:24
nominee Girl power in a movie: Not apex, but in the discussion; the women underestimated, though Whitaker saved them.
“Girl power in a movie?”
Bill Simmons · 1:24:31
nominee Dwight Yoakam as Raul: Not an apex.
“Dwight Yoakam?”
Bill Simmons · 1:24:54
winner Propane explosions in movies: Judged pretty good.
“Movie propane explosions.”
Bill Simmons · 1:25:47

Aged best · What has held up best in the film.

pick Forrest Whitaker as the good burglar
“Forrest Whitaker as the good burglar.”
Bill Simmons · 0:57:30
pick The opening title graphics: A big external look for a movie set inside.
“In other words, agent best, the graphics at the beginning are amazing.”
Bill Simmons · 1:03:34
pick How the diabetes was handled: Subtle, not overt.
“Diabetes situation we mentioned.”
Bill Simmons · 1:03:57
pick Kristen Stewart as Sarah: Told his wife she would be nominated someday.
“I remember I told my wife that Chris Stewart was going to get nominated for an Oscar someday.”
Bill Simmons · 1:04:14
pick I can't go to prison, man: Loves the line; another host later calls it the hackiest in the script.
“This is another one stage the best when somebody says, I can't go to prison, man.”
Bill Simmons · 1:04:35
pick Junior's death
“Well, I had that as the next wood stage the best.”
Chris Ryan · 1:05:49
pick Dwight Yoakam as Raul: Raul as the malevolent force and a great creation.
“Raul the bus driver is just a great creation.”
unknown · 1:09:35

Aged worst · What has held up worst in the film.

pick I can't go to prison, man: Called the hackiest moment from a script standpoint.
“because it is real the hackiest moment from a script standpoint”
unknown · 1:05:33
pick The propane gas sequence: Thinks she would have blown herself up.
“I just think she blows herself up.”
Bill Simmons · 1:09:47
pick Stephen Altman as the husband: Too over the top for a marriage not working out.
“Another one stage of words for me is the husband character in this movie?”
Bill Simmons · 1:09:50
pick The cops at the door: They should have forced their way in.
“And, um, the other one's age the worst is I just feel like the cops come in when, when, uh, the guy from Oz come dressed up as a police officer comes.”
Bill Simmons · 1:10:50

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a film they love.

pick The propane sequence is unrealistic
“I just think Jody blows up.”
Bill Simmons · 0:54:41
pick Meg never gets her phone while the burglars are downstairs
“I've seen this movie enough times now that Jody Foster's inability.”
Bill Simmons · 1:25:56
pick 911 puts her on hold
“What world does 911 put people on hold?”
Bill Simmons · 1:27:55
pick Hungover Meg rigs two phone lines together
“Jody, drunk divorced mom for the 1st 20 minutes of the movie within an hour is taking 2 phone lines and rigging them together and it's like, no, no, use the yellow line.”
Bill Simmons · 1:28:19
pick Meg's fast drunk recovery
“She went from 4 glasses of wine, NIQUA, whatever else happened, and can barely pee, to all of a sudden she's running, you know, 4040 yard dashes into a room, grabbing the phone, just looking spry.”
Sean Fennessey · 1:29:08
pick Whitaker breaks in wearing the security company jersey
“shows up to the house to break in, wearing the security company, kind of jersey.”
Sean Fennessey · 1:29:51
pick No quick escapes from the panic room
“Uh, I had mostly just like the, the lack of interest in like quick, quick escapes from the panic room and just doing like little bit of like chipping away, not looking for chunk plays, but just getting, just getting 3 yards in a cloud of dust.”
Chris Ryan · 1:30:51
pick No diabetes supplies stocked in the panic room: Offered as a hot take he forgot in the nitpicks.
“Maybe put some diabetes stuff in the panic room.”
Bill Simmons · 1:38:09

Netflix series remake · Could it be remade as a 10-episode Netflix show.

pick Home invasion Netflix show: Got excited briefly, then decided he would not watch it.
“I actually got excited about this for a split second, then decided, no”
Bill Simmons · 1:32:57
pick 10-episode show built on the characters: Junior played by Roman from Succession.
“I think it is a 10 episode Netflix show, but it's just that, um, Junior is Roman from Succession.”
unknown · 1:33:06
pick Anthology series called Panic Rooms: Ten different panic rooms, or one panic room across a century.
“The show would have to be called panic rooms, and it would be about 10 different panic rooms in 10 different situations”
unknown · 1:33:24

Unanswered questions · A question the hosts raise about the film.

pick Kristen Stewart as Sarah: Asks if this is her best performance; Sean prefers Adventureland, the hosts list others.
“Is this the best Kristen Stewart's ever been in a movie?”
Bill Simmons · 1:34:32

Memorabilia · A prop they would own from the film.

pick The bearer bonds
“I want the bear bonds.”
Chris Ryan · 1:36:48
pick The propane tank
“The propane tank?”
Sean Fennessey · 1:36:55
pick Raul's ski mask
“I'm going to go with the ski mask.”
Bill Simmons · 1:36:59

Who won the movie · Who won the movie.

nominee Jared Leto as Junior
“Leto.”
Bill Simmons · 1:37:05
winner David Fincher: Anyone else would make a forgettable version of this movie.
“Yeah, I mean, he's just, he makes this movie. 99 other people make this movie.”
unknown · 1:37:08

Who talked about it

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David Sims: 2 lines in Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free)
Griffin Newman: 1 line in Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free)
Unattributed: 39 lines, the speaker unknown or under 0.5 sure.

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Sean Fennessey: 1 line in 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular

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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.

Fight Club: 3 lines the host's read ×3

career (career): Fight Club ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). Panic Room read as a small antidote to the response to Fight Club.
“This seemed like a little bit of an antidote to that because what's panic room about.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:19:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Fargo: 1 line the host's read ×1

unmapped (model for the villains): Fargo ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). 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)

Jodie Foster: 1 line the host's read ×1

unmapped (led to): Jodie Foster ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). The Game casting fell through, and Panic Room happened because she still wanted to work with Fincher.
“Panic room ends up happening because of how badly she still wanted to work with Venture”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 0:56:56 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Rear Window: 1 line the maker said so ×1

lineage (lineage): Rear Window ⇒ Panic Room (the maker said so: Fincher's quotes the host reads). Fincher saw it as a cross between Rear Window and Straw Dogs.
“So Fitcher saw panic group as a cross between rear window and straw dogs.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:17:38 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

Sling Blade: 1 line the host's read ×1

people (led to casting): Sling Blade ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). 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)

Straw Dogs: 1 line the maker said so ×1

lineage (lineage): Straw Dogs ⇒ Panic Room (the maker said so: Fincher's quotes the host reads). Fincher saw it as a cross between Rear Window and Straw Dogs (Peckinpah).
“So Fitcher saw panic group as a cross between rear window and straw dogs.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:17:38 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

The Silence of the Lambs: 1 line the host's read ×1

lineage (lineage): The Silence of the Lambs ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). The switcheroo with the dad and Raoul is a little Silence of the Lambs homage.
“A little silence of lambs homage.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:53:47 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Thief: 1 line the host's read ×1

craft (craft): Thief ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). Fincher may have watched Thief before Panic Room.
“Fincher does panic room and he probably saw Thief like 2 weeks before he started filming”
The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:40:36 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

Flight Plan: 1 line the host's read ×1

unmapped (template for): Panic Room ⇒ Flight Plan (the host's read). 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)

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: 1 line the host's read ×1

unmapped (set the template for): Panic Room ⇒ Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (the host's read). 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)

Connected to

Fight Club: 6 lines contrast ×2 career ×1 craft ×1 unmapped ×1 people ×1

career (career): Panic Room → Fight Club. Panic Room read as a small antidote to the response to Fight Club.
“This seemed like a little bit of an antidote to that because what's panic room about.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:19:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Heat: 3 lines industry ×1 theme ×1 what-if ×1

theme (theme): Panic Room → Heat. Bearer bonds and heist logic: Bill pitches a Michael Mann movie where robbers reveal the take by mistake.
“We have to have a thing where the robbers mistakenly reveal how much they were actually getting versus...”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:52:29 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)

Zodiac: 3 lines contrast ×1 career ×1 craft ×1

contrast (contrast): Zodiac → Panic Room. Zodiac is deep (obsession, meaning through someone else's experience) where Panic Room is a well-made B movie.
“It's one of those things where like zodiac is deep.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:22:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Andrew Kevin Walker: 2 lines unmapped ×1 people ×1

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)

Contact: 2 lines career ×1 verdict ×1

verdict (verdict): Contact → Panic Room. Bill's take in 1997: Contact was disappointing and Foster and McConaughey had no chemistry.
“Matthew McConey and Jody Foster had no chemistry at all.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:27:06 · Bill Simmons (0.75 sure it was them)

Home Alone: 2 lines industry ×1 theme ×1

industry (industry): Panic Room → Home Alone. Fincher worried Home Alone would overshadow his film.
“He was concerned that Home Alone would overshadow it, but he's pretty traumatized after this movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:17:44 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

Nicole Kidman: 2 lines what-if ×1 career ×1

what-if (what-if): Nicole Kidman → Panic Room. Kidman was cast as Meg, then injured her knee (aggravated from Moulin Rouge) and was replaced by Foster.
“Nicole Kidman was cast as the role in the role of Meg.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:34:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them)

Sling Blade: 2 lines people ×2

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)

The Game: 2 lines contrast ×2

contrast (contrast): The Game → Panic Room. Fincher called Panic Room the experiment in keeping the audience in perfect lockstep, unlike The Game.
“that's my experiment making a movie where you're in perfect lockstep.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 0:44:43 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

The Godfather: 2 lines industry ×1 theme ×1

theme (theme): Panic Room → The Godfather. Rooting for a morally complicated figure (Whitaker) recalls No Country and The Godfather.
“is it really that far afield from like no country for old men or the godfather”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:21:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)

Angelina Jolie: 1 line what-if ×1

what-if (what-if): Panic Room → Angelina Jolie. The part is an attractive-badass Angelina Jolie type; Jolie was reportedly considered.
“It's like an Angelina Jolie part almost, which is interesting because I think they considered Angelina for this.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:26:07 · Bill Simmons (0.65 sure it was them)

Anthony Hopkins: 1 line what-if ×1

what-if (what-if): Panic Room → Anthony Hopkins. Bill would cast Hopkins as the ex-husband; Jodie owes him, she won him an Oscar.
“Have him played by Anthony Hopkins.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:16:14 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)

Arthur Max: 1 line craft ×1

craft (craft): Arthur Max → Panic Room. Max's production design team built the four-story brownstone set in 15 weeks for $6 million.
“Arthur Max, production design team, took 15 weeks, $6000000 on Raleigh Studios, and lovely Hollywood.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:19:24 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

Bird Box: 1 line programming ×1

programming (programming): Panic Room → Bird Box. Home-invasion and people-in-peril movies are what Netflix feeds viewers; Panic Room is the well-done version.
“But I think this is the really well-done version of it.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:29:37 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)

Charles Bronson: 1 line lineage ×1

lineage (lineage): Panic Room → Charles Bronson. A regular person put in danger who has to knuckle up, like a Charles Bronson movie.
“This is kind of like a Charles Bronson movie in a way”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:30:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Darius Khondji: 1 line people ×1

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)

Die Hard: 1 line theme ×1

theme (theme): Panic Room → Die Hard. Bearer bonds as plot device: not since Die Hard has there been 25 minutes on bearer bonds.
“Not since Die Hard have we spent 25 minutes on bear bonds.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:58:14 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Dog Day Afternoon: 1 line theme ×1

theme (theme): Panic Room → Dog Day Afternoon. Diabetes as a better plot device: the manager in Dog Day Afternoon.
“Oh, dog to afternoon.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:23:44 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

Don't Breathe: 1 line lineage ×1

lineage (lineage): Panic Room → Don't Breathe. Home-invasion variants take senses away from the victim.
“What was don't breathe?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:51:03 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Fargo: 1 line unmapped ×1

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)

Flight Plan: 1 line unmapped ×1

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)

Forest Whitaker: 1 line unmapped ×1

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)

Gone Girl: 1 line craft ×1

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)

Halloween: 1 line contrast ×1

contrast (contrast): Panic Room → Halloween. Michael Myers energy joke: Foster gets up fresh after falling down two flights of stairs.
“So Michael Myers energy going on there.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:29:35 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

Henry Rollins: 1 line what-if ×1

what-if (what-if): Panic Room → Henry Rollins. Because Heat keeps coming up, Rollins would have been good as an enforcer.
“This would have been a good role for Rollins.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:14:20 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

Howard Shore: 1 line people ×1

people (composer): Howard Shore → Panic Room. A speaker loves the Panic Room score by Shore.
“I love the Howard Shore panic room score.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 2:25:06 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Jodie Foster: 1 line unmapped ×1

unmapped (led to): Jodie Foster → Panic Room. The Game casting fell through, and Panic Room happened because she still wanted to work with Fincher.
“Panic room ends up happening because of how badly she still wanted to work with Venture”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 0:56:56 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Joe Eszterhas: 1 line industry ×1

industry (industry): Panic Room → Joe Eszterhas. A record script sale, like Eszterhas's and Shane Black's, which Bill wants a Movie-Reference site for.
“didn't Joe Esterhouse have that once for basic instinct and him and Shane Black.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:39:27 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)

John Woo: 1 line craft ×1

craft (craft): Panic Room → John Woo. The syringes thrown into the panic room is like a John Woo moment.
“it's almost like a, uh, like a John Wu movie or something.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:30:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Kiss the Girls: 1 line theme ×1

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)

Leighton Meester: 1 line contrast ×1

contrast (contrast): Panic Room → Leighton Meester. Without Foster and Fincher it's the movie on Netflix once a month with Leighton Meester.
“But there's a version of this movie that is on Netflix once a month.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:17:19 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)

Lifeboat: 1 line lineage ×1

lineage (lineage): Panic Room → Lifeboat. One-location construction recalls the Hitchcock single-setting movies.
“So it has shades of rope or lifeboat, those movies that Hitchcock made.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:16:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)

Max von Sydow: 1 line theme ×1

theme (theme): Panic Room → Max von Sydow. Whitaker as the good burglar echoes Max von Sydow as the good Nazi in the Victory episode.
“We talked in the victory podcast about Max Van Saido as the good Nazi.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:57:33 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them)

Maynard (James) Keenan: 1 line unmapped ×1

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)

Mel Brooks: 1 line what-if ×1

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)

Michael Douglas: 1 line what-if ×1

what-if (what-if): Panic Room → Michael Douglas. Michael Douglas would have been a great cameo as Steven, though he wouldn't have agreed to the beating.
“I think Michael Douglas would have been a great cameo”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:16:28 · Chris Ryan (0.45 sure it was them)

Moulin Rouge!: 1 line unmapped ×1

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)

Nancy Meyers: 1 line what-if ×1

what-if (what-if): Panic Room → Nancy Meyers. Panic Room is a drama of domesticity, a house that turns on you, suited to Meyers.
“a house and a room that turns against you, she would be engaging with a lot of the core themes”
The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:13:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

No Country for Old Men: 1 line theme ×1

theme (theme): Panic Room → No Country for Old Men. Rooting for a morally complicated figure (Whitaker) recalls No Country and The Godfather.
“is it really that far afield from like no country for old men or the godfather”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:21:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)

North by Northwest: 1 line contrast ×1

contrast (contrast): Panic Room → North by Northwest. North by Northwest is the big cross-country picture; Fight Club plays that role for Fincher before Panic Room shrinks things down.
“It's very similar to Fight Club in that way.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:16:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)

Peter Ramsey: 1 line unmapped ×1

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)

Phone Booth: 1 line people ×1

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)

Psycho: 1 line lineage ×1

lineage (lineage): Panic Room → Psycho. Panic Room is to Fight Club as Psycho is to North by Northwest: a small, single-location B movie after a big sprawling one.
“But really it's like, it's Hitchcock doing Psycho right after North by Northwest.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:16:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)

Rear Window: 1 line lineage ×1

lineage (lineage): Panic Room → Rear Window. Fincher saw it as a cross between Rear Window and Straw Dogs.
“So Fitcher saw panic group as a cross between rear window and straw dogs.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:17:38 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

Roger Ebert: 1 line verdict ×1

verdict (verdict): Panic Room → Roger Ebert. Ebert gave Panic Room 3 stars and called Fincher a visual virtuoso and Foster spellbinding.
“All right, Roger Ebert, 3 stars.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:41:56 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)

Rope: 1 line lineage ×1

lineage (lineage): Panic Room → Rope. One-location construction recalls the Hitchcock single-setting movies.
“So it has shades of rope or lifeboat, those movies that Hitchcock made.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:16:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)

Sandra Bullock: 1 line what-if ×1

what-if (what-if): Panic Room → Sandra Bullock. Ten actresses could have played the part; Sandra Bullock easily.
“Like Sandra Bullock easily could have been in this movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:29:09 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

See for Me (transcribed 'C for Me'): 1 line lineage ×1

lineage (lineage): Panic Room → See for Me (transcribed 'C for Me'). A new home-invasion movie in the same vein, with a blind cat sitter who robs houses.
“It's very much in the same vein as panic room”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:50:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)

Seven: 1 line contrast ×1

contrast (contrast): Panic Room → Seven. Se7en and Fight Club hide twists from the audience; Panic Room is real time with no withheld information.
“Like 7 and Fight Club, there are these huge twists at the center of these movies that are withheld from the audience.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:42:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)

Sony: 1 line industry ×1

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)

Spider-Man: 1 line industry ×1

industry (industry): Panic Room → Spider-Man. 2002 box office: Panic Room made $96M domestically in a year when things changed, a Spider-Man year.
“but also the year when things change, because this is a Spider-Man year.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:40:25 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: 1 line unmapped ×1

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)

Steel Magnolias: 1 line theme ×1

theme (theme): Panic Room → Steel Magnolias. Apex Mountain for diabetes in a movie: Steel Magnolias came up and was not enough.
“wasn't wasn't Julia Roberts in Steel Magnolias diabetic?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:23:32 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

Straw Dogs: 1 line lineage ×1

lineage (lineage): Panic Room → Straw Dogs. Fincher saw it as a cross between Rear Window and Straw Dogs (Peckinpah).
“So Fitcher saw panic group as a cross between rear window and straw dogs.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:17:38 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

Succession: 1 line programming ×1

programming (programming): Panic Room → Succession. As a ten-episode Netflix show, Junior would be Roman from Succession.
“but it's just that, um, Junior is Roman from Succession.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:33:06 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Ted Levine: 1 line what-if ×1

what-if (what-if): Panic Room → Ted Levine. Ted Levine in the Yoakam part.
“Ted Levine in the Dwight Yoakam part.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:16:55 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)

The Batman (transcribed 'Black Cat'): 1 line contrast ×1

contrast (contrast): Panic Room → The Batman (transcribed 'Black Cat'). Bill thought it was really bad, Chris thought it was good.
“I'd like to stand by the fact that when the movie was over, when Chris and I saw it together, I was like, that was really bad”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:53:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)

The Bone Collector: 1 line theme ×1

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)

The Brave One: 1 line unmapped ×1

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)

The Color of Money: 1 line unmapped ×1

unmapped (directorial constraint): The Color of Money → Panic Room. Both directors were handed a confined, mundane space and responded with showy camera flourishes.
“it reminds me a little of panic room with Fincher.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:19:18 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: 1 line career ×1

career (career): Panic Room → The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. After Panic Room, Fincher's films from Zodiac on are less about gotchas and more about ideas.
“Benjamin Button, all of these movies are less about like, boom, gotcha, and more about thinking about the ideas at the center of the movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:43:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: 1 line career ×1

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)

The Killer: 1 line lineage ×1

lineage (genre-riff contrast): Panic Room → The Killer. Panic Room was loaded with everything; The Killer strips a genre down.
“even when he's making something like panic room that's a bit of a genre riff”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer with Marie Bardi (Ad-Free) · 0:17:31 · unknown (host) (0.30 sure it was them)

The Mist: 1 line craft ×1

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)

The Shining: 1 line contrast ×1

contrast (contrast): Panic Room → The Shining. Also a single-house movie, but The Shining's characters at least get to run through a maze.
“They probably had the same kind of problem on the shining. That's all in one house, but at least they get out.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:18:21 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)

The Silence of the Lambs: 1 line lineage ×1

lineage (lineage): Panic Room → The Silence of the Lambs. The switcheroo with the dad and Raoul is a little Silence of the Lambs homage.
“A little silence of lambs homage.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:53:47 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

The Social Network: 1 line programming ×1

programming (programming): Panic Room → The Social Network. Fincher movies are rewatchable and date-movie friendly, with the exception of Se7en; Social Network is the perfect date movie.
“Like social network, perfect date movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:40:17 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)

Thief: 1 line craft ×1

craft (craft): Thief → Panic Room. Fincher may have watched Thief before Panic Room.
“Fincher does panic room and he probably saw Thief like 2 weeks before he started filming”
The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:40:36 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Where it came up

passing in The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag!, first at 1:13:24, 1 time
passing in The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan, first at 1:13:47, 1 time
subject in The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey, first at 0:02:16, 76 times
compared in The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey, first at 0:19:18, 2 times
compared in The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan, first at 0:40:36, 1 time
passing in The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’, first at 1:11:32, 1 time
subject in The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular, first at 1:13:20, 1 time
compared in Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer with Marie Bardi (Ad-Free), first at 0:17:31, 7 times
compared in Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network (Ad-Free), first at 0:06:05, 1 time
passing in Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free), first at 0:52:13, 1 time
passing in Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free), first at 0:36:39, 3 times
subject in Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free), first at 0:01:01, 70 times
passing in Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free), first at 0:06:40, 11 times
compared in Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free), first at 0:35:13, 4 times
compared in Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free), first at 2:41:28, 1 time
passing in Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free), first at 0:12:05, 2 times
passing in Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free), first at 0:26:34, 3 times
passing in Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free), first at 0:16:05, 1 time

What was said about it, by kind

career (6)

career (career): Panic Room → Fight Club. Panic Room read as a small antidote to the response to Fight Club.
“This seemed like a little bit of an antidote to that because what's panic room about.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:19:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
career (career): Panic Room → Zodiac. Five years between Panic Room and Zodiac; the effect on Fincher shows in how he tells stories afterward.
“5 years went by between panic room and zodiac.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:22:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
career (career): Panic Room → Contact. Foster came into Panic Room off a dry run that included Contact, which Bill calls awful.
“contact, which is an awful movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:26:29 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
career (career): Panic Room → The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. After Panic Room, Fincher's films from Zodiac on are less about gotchas and more about ideas.
“Benjamin Button, all of these movies are less about like, boom, gotcha, and more about thinking about the ideas at the center of the movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:43:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 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)
career (career): Nicole Kidman → Panic Room. Kidman dropped out of Panic Room a week or two before shooting, as she did with other projects.
“Like she's supposed to do panic room and drops out like a week or 2 before.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:26:34 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)

contrast (11)

contrast (contrast): Panic Room → Fight Club. Fincher assumed a one-location film would be easier than Fight Club's 400 scenes in 100 locations; it was harder.
“He does Fight Club and it's an insane movie to make, I think he said, Fight Club at 400 scenes in 100 locations.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:15:25 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Panic Room → North by Northwest. North by Northwest is the big cross-country picture; Fight Club plays that role for Fincher before Panic Room shrinks things down.
“It's very similar to Fight Club in that way.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:16:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Panic Room → Leighton Meester. Without Foster and Fincher it's the movie on Netflix once a month with Leighton Meester.
“But there's a version of this movie that is on Netflix once a month.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:17:19 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Panic Room → The Shining. Also a single-house movie, but The Shining's characters at least get to run through a maze.
“They probably had the same kind of problem on the shining. That's all in one house, but at least they get out.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:18:21 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Zodiac → Panic Room. Zodiac is deep (obsession, meaning through someone else's experience) where Panic Room is a well-made B movie.
“It's one of those things where like zodiac is deep.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:22:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Panic Room → Seven. Se7en and Fight Club hide twists from the audience; Panic Room is real time with no withheld information.
“Like 7 and Fight Club, there are these huge twists at the center of these movies that are withheld from the audience.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:42:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Panic Room → Fight Club. Panic Room is one of the first Fincher films where the audience is with the characters the whole time.
“And panic room is this real-time experience.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:42:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Panic Room → The Batman (transcribed 'Black Cat'). Bill thought it was really bad, Chris thought it was good.
“I'd like to stand by the fact that when the movie was over, when Chris and I saw it together, I was like, that was really bad”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:53:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Panic Room → Halloween. Michael Myers energy joke: Foster gets up fresh after falling down two flights of stairs.
“So Michael Myers energy going on there.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:29:35 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
contrast (budget contrast): Panic Room → The Game. Panic Room cost 48 million five years later, against The Game's 70 million.
“it is wild that 5 years later, panic room costs 48.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 0:35:16 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): The Game → Panic Room. Fincher called Panic Room the experiment in keeping the audience in perfect lockstep, unlike The Game.
“that's my experiment making a movie where you're in perfect lockstep.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 0:44:43 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

craft (7)

craft (craft): Panic Room → John Woo. The syringes thrown into the panic room is like a John Woo moment.
“it's almost like a, uh, like a John Wu movie or something.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:30:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Arthur Max → Panic Room. Max's production design team built the four-story brownstone set in 15 weeks for $6 million.
“Arthur Max, production design team, took 15 weeks, $6000000 on Raleigh Studios, and lovely Hollywood.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:19:24 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Panic Room → Fight Club. The inside-the-house camera moves Fincher started in Fight Club are fully developed in Panic Room.
“And there's a lot of like stuff that he had started to do a little bit with Fight Club is like really like fleshed out in panic room”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:20:53 · Chris Ryan (0.45 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Thief → Panic Room. Fincher may have watched Thief before Panic Room.
“Fincher does panic room and he probably saw Thief like 2 weeks before he started filming”
The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:40:36 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
craft (camera as character): Panic Room → Zodiac. The opening dolly shot is the Panic Room kind of thing: a camera moving with a mind of its own.
“it is that panic room kind of thing as well, of just like the camera kind of perfectly moving”
Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free) · 1:14:21 · unknown (0.40 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)

industry (6)

industry (industry): Heat → Panic Room. Bearer bonds in Heat and Panic Room are anachronisms because the 1982 tax act made them rare.
“But when we get to heat and panic room, no fucking way, basically.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:13:24 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Panic Room → The Godfather. The Academy's anniversary shoehorning (Godfather 50th, Pulp Fiction 28th) was awkward; Pacino and De Niro barely spoke.
“The weird thing was, like, you have Pacino and De Niro out there, and they don't talk.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:03:39 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Panic Room → Home Alone. Fincher worried Home Alone would overshadow his film.
“He was concerned that Home Alone would overshadow it, but he's pretty traumatized after this movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:17:44 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Panic Room → Joe Eszterhas. A record script sale, like Eszterhas's and Shane Black's, which Bill wants a Movie-Reference site for.
“didn't Joe Esterhouse have that once for basic instinct and him and Shane Black.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:39:27 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Panic Room → Spider-Man. 2002 box office: Panic Room made $96M domestically in a year when things changed, a Spider-Man year.
“but also the year when things change, because this is a Spider-Man year.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:40:25 · Bill Simmons (0.60 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.”
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lineage (10)

lineage (lineage): Panic Room → Rope. One-location construction recalls the Hitchcock single-setting movies.
“So it has shades of rope or lifeboat, those movies that Hitchcock made.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:16:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Panic Room → Lifeboat. One-location construction recalls the Hitchcock single-setting movies.
“So it has shades of rope or lifeboat, those movies that Hitchcock made.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:16:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Panic Room → Psycho. Panic Room is to Fight Club as Psycho is to North by Northwest: a small, single-location B movie after a big sprawling one.
“But really it's like, it's Hitchcock doing Psycho right after North by Northwest.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:16:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Panic Room → Rear Window. Fincher saw it as a cross between Rear Window and Straw Dogs.
“So Fitcher saw panic group as a cross between rear window and straw dogs.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:17:38 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Panic Room → Straw Dogs. Fincher saw it as a cross between Rear Window and Straw Dogs (Peckinpah).
“So Fitcher saw panic group as a cross between rear window and straw dogs.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:17:38 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Panic Room → Charles Bronson. A regular person put in danger who has to knuckle up, like a Charles Bronson movie.
“This is kind of like a Charles Bronson movie in a way”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:30:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Panic Room → See for Me (transcribed 'C for Me'). A new home-invasion movie in the same vein, with a blind cat sitter who robs houses.
“It's very much in the same vein as panic room”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:50:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Panic Room → Don't Breathe. Home-invasion variants take senses away from the victim.
“What was don't breathe?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:51:03 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Panic Room → The Silence of the Lambs. The switcheroo with the dad and Raoul is a little Silence of the Lambs homage.
“A little silence of lambs homage.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:53:47 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (genre-riff contrast): Panic Room → The Killer. Panic Room was loaded with everything; The Killer strips a genre down.
“even when he's making something like panic room that's a bit of a genre riff”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer with Marie Bardi (Ad-Free) · 0:17:31 · unknown (host) (0.30 sure it was them)

people (7)

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)
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)
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 (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)
people (composer): Howard Shore → Panic Room. A speaker loves the Panic Room score by Shore.
“I love the Howard Shore panic room score.”
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programming (3)

programming (programming): Panic Room → Bird Box. Home-invasion and people-in-peril movies are what Netflix feeds viewers; Panic Room is the well-done version.
“But I think this is the really well-done version of it.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:29:37 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Panic Room → The Social Network. Fincher movies are rewatchable and date-movie friendly, with the exception of Se7en; Social Network is the perfect date movie.
“Like social network, perfect date movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:40:17 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Panic Room → Succession. As a ten-episode Netflix show, Junior would be Roman from Succession.
“but it's just that, um, Junior is Roman from Succession.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:33:06 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

theme (10)

theme (theme): Panic Room → No Country for Old Men. Rooting for a morally complicated figure (Whitaker) recalls No Country and The Godfather.
“is it really that far afield from like no country for old men or the godfather”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:21:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Panic Room → The Godfather. Rooting for a morally complicated figure (Whitaker) recalls No Country and The Godfather.
“is it really that far afield from like no country for old men or the godfather”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:21:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Panic Room → Heat. Bearer bonds and heist logic: Bill pitches a Michael Mann movie where robbers reveal the take by mistake.
“We have to have a thing where the robbers mistakenly reveal how much they were actually getting versus...”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:52:29 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Panic Room → Max von Sydow. Whitaker as the good burglar echoes Max von Sydow as the good Nazi in the Victory episode.
“We talked in the victory podcast about Max Van Saido as the good Nazi.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:57:33 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Panic Room → Die Hard. Bearer bonds as plot device: not since Die Hard has there been 25 minutes on bearer bonds.
“Not since Die Hard have we spent 25 minutes on bear bonds.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:58:14 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Panic Room → Steel Magnolias. Apex Mountain for diabetes in a movie: Steel Magnolias came up and was not enough.
“wasn't wasn't Julia Roberts in Steel Magnolias diabetic?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:23:32 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Panic Room → Dog Day Afternoon. Diabetes as a better plot device: the manager in Dog Day Afternoon.
“Oh, dog to afternoon.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:23:44 · Chris Ryan (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)
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.”
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unmapped (12)

unmapped (directorial constraint): The Color of Money → Panic Room. Both directors were handed a confined, mundane space and responded with showy camera flourishes.
“it reminds me a little of panic room with Fincher.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:19:18 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
unmapped (name joke): Andrew Kevin Walker → Panic Room. The cops in Panic Room were all named after Walker.
“One the cops were all named after him.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer with Marie Bardi (Ad-Free) · 0:46:06 · unknown (host) (0.30 sure it was them)
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)
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)
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 (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)
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)
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)
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)
unmapped (led to): Jodie Foster → Panic Room. The Game casting fell through, and Panic Room happened because she still wanted to work with Fincher.
“Panic room ends up happening because of how badly she still wanted to work with Venture”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 0:56:56 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

verdict (2)

verdict (verdict): Contact → Panic Room. Bill's take in 1997: Contact was disappointing and Foster and McConaughey had no chemistry.
“Matthew McConey and Jody Foster had no chemistry at all.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:27:06 · Bill Simmons (0.75 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Panic Room → Roger Ebert. Ebert gave Panic Room 3 stars and called Fincher a visual virtuoso and Foster spellbinding.
“All right, Roger Ebert, 3 stars.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:41:56 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)

what-if (10)

what-if (what-if): Panic Room → Angelina Jolie. The part is an attractive-badass Angelina Jolie type; Jolie was reportedly considered.
“It's like an Angelina Jolie part almost, which is interesting because I think they considered Angelina for this.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:26:07 · Bill Simmons (0.65 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Panic Room → Sandra Bullock. Ten actresses could have played the part; Sandra Bullock easily.
“Like Sandra Bullock easily could have been in this movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:29:09 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Nicole Kidman → Panic Room. Kidman was cast as Meg, then injured her knee (aggravated from Moulin Rouge) and was replaced by Foster.
“Nicole Kidman was cast as the role in the role of Meg.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:34:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Panic Room → Henry Rollins. Because Heat keeps coming up, Rollins would have been good as an enforcer.
“This would have been a good role for Rollins.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:14:20 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Panic Room → Anthony Hopkins. Bill would cast Hopkins as the ex-husband; Jodie owes him, she won him an Oscar.
“Have him played by Anthony Hopkins.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:16:14 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Panic Room → Michael Douglas. Michael Douglas would have been a great cameo as Steven, though he wouldn't have agreed to the beating.
“I think Michael Douglas would have been a great cameo”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:16:28 · Chris Ryan (0.45 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Panic Room → Ted Levine. Ted Levine in the Yoakam part.
“Ted Levine in the Dwight Yoakam part.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:16:55 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Panic Room → Heat. They run through the cast of Heat for Raoul: Pacino, De Niro, Rollins, Sizemore, Val Kilmer, Wes Studi, Voight; Sizemore is the answer.
“Let's just run through the entire cast of heat and decide who could play Raul.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:17:16 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Panic Room → Nancy Meyers. Panic Room is a drama of domesticity, a house that turns on you, suited to Meyers.
“a house and a room that turns against you, she would be engaging with a lot of the core themes”
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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)

Fun items about it

fun, about Panic Room: Nicole Kidman was first cast as Meg, hurt her knee, and Foster replaced her on a week's notice because her Flora Plum shut down; then Foster got pregnant and production stopped again, which is why it took two years.
“So this is why this thing takes 2 years.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:37:24 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Panic Room: Script by David Koepp sold for $4 million, a record; budget $48 million, worldwide gross $197 million.
“And it sold for 4 million.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:39:17 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Panic Room: Bill reads Roger Ebert's three-star review (Fincher a visual virtuoso, Foster spellbinding) and asks why not 3.5; the Ebert running gag.
“Why not 3.5, Rog?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:42:18 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Panic Room: Most rewatchable scene candidates: robbers show up, Jody finds out they're in the house, Jody gets her phone (slow-mo), Leto screws up the safe talk, the switcheroo, the propane-tank sequence.
“Jody gets her phone.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:51:15 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Panic Room: The slow-mo phone scene: Whitaker talks in slow motion so you can't hear him but see the words mouthed while Foster searches the covers.
“You see the words being mouthed, which is amazing.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:51:38 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Panic Room: Propane scene: Sean argues she should blow up in a closed room and the dive backward is unrealistic; Chris takes the propane scene as his pick anyway.
“I think everyone dies in the panic room the moment she lights the flame.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:54:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Panic Room: Bearer bonds explainer: bill Googles it; bonds are owned by whoever holds them, so they're 'the original Bitcoin' and a lazy heist-movie staple.
“So they're like the original Bitcoin.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:00:12 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Panic Room: Kristen Stewart grew more than three inches during shooting, towering over Foster; Bill wants a database of child actors who grew mid-production.
“Kristen Stewart grew more than 3 inches during the filming.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:18:03 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Panic Room: Fincher took 103 takes for the medical bags sliding across the floor outside the panic room, and it was worth it.
“Yeah, I can't even imagine.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:19:01 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Panic Room: The house is 38 West 94th Street, but the brownstone set took 15 weeks and $6 million at Raleigh Studios.
“The house is located at 38 West 94th Street in New York City.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:19:11 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Panic Room: Darius Khondji started as cinematographer and quit or was fired six weeks in; Conrad Hall took over.
“Darius Kanji started out as the cinematographer of this movie and quit and or was fired 6 weeks into it.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:20:28 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Panic Room: Memorabilia: Chris and Sean pick the bearer bonds and the ski mask; the Blu-ray finally arrived on the 20th anniversary and Sean has the Superbit DVD.
“As of this week, it's on Blu-ray.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:21:51 · Chris Ryan (0.45 sure it was them)
fun, about Panic Room: Apex Mountain: Panic Room itself is the only nominee; the propane explosion and diabetes get discussed and not crowned.
“Movies called Panic room.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:24:27 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Panic Room: Sean's nitpick: Foster never just opens the panic room door and grabs the phone when all three burglars are downstairs, and the movie would be over in 40 minutes.
“Just open the panic room, walk 5 feet and call the fucking police and the movie's over.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:27:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Panic Room: Craig asks about SOS flashlight signaling; leads to Kitty Genovese and the bystander effect and the Halloween neighbor who won't help Jamie Lee.
“Craig has a question for nitpicks.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:31:07 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Panic Room: Who won the movie: Fincher. 99 other directors make this movie and it's totally forgettable.
“Got to be Fincher.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:37:07 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
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 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 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 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 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 Panic Room: The three-disc Panic Room DVD is called the most comprehensive special-feature package for any movie ever, and the movie is not on Blu-ray.
“peak DVD Fincher being like every single 2nd of this will be documented.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:12:22 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

As said on the shows, not checked against the real credits.

Steven Soderbergh: director consulted by Fincher on camera plan (The Rewatchables, ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
Sony: studio (paid $4 million for the script, marketed it) (Blank Check — Patreon, Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free))
Roger Ebert: critic, 3 stars (The Rewatchables, ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
David Fincher: director (The Rewatchables, ‘The Color of Money’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
David Fincher: director (The Big Picture, 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular)
David Fincher: director (The Rewatchables, ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
David Fincher: director (The Rewatchables, ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan)
David Fincher: director (Blank Check — Patreon, Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free))
David Fincher: director (Blank Check — Patreon, Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free))
David Fincher: director (Blank Check — Patreon, Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free))
David Fincher: director (Blank Check — Patreon, Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free))
David Fincher: director (Blank Check — Patreon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free))
David Fincher: director (Blank Check — Patreon, The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free))
David Fincher: director (Blank Check — Patreon, The Killer with Marie Bardi (Ad-Free))
David Fincher: director (Blank Check — Patreon, The Social Network (Ad-Free))
David Fincher: director (Blank Check — Patreon, Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free))
Andrew Kevin Walker: actor (neighbor) (The Rewatchables, ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
Andrew Kevin Walker: the sleepy neighbor (cameo) (Blank Check — Patreon, Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free))
Andrew Kevin Walker: cameo ('in that movie as a joke') (Blank Check — Patreon, The Killer with Marie Bardi (Ad-Free))
Nancy Meyers: hypothetical director (The Big Picture, 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular)
David Koepp: writer (The Rewatchables, ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
David Koepp: writer (toured a brownstone with a panic room) (Blank Check — Patreon, Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free))
Nicole Kidman: actor (originally cast as Meg; injured) (The Rewatchables, ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
Nicole Kidman: actor (dropped out) (Blank Check — Patreon, In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free))
Nicole Kidman: originally cast lead (Meg), injured her knee 19 days in, replaced (Blank Check — Patreon, Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free))
Nicole Kidman: voice of the new wife on the phone (Blank Check — Patreon, Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free))
Howard Shore: composer (Blank Check — Patreon, Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free))
Forest Whitaker: actor (Burnham) (The Rewatchables, ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
Forest Whitaker: lead (Burnham, the panic room installer) (Blank Check — Patreon, Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free))
Forest Whitaker: offered the script to direct before Fincher came on (Blank Check — Patreon, Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free))
Jodie Foster: actor (Meg Altman) (The Rewatchables, ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
Jodie Foster: lead (Meg Altman) (Blank Check — Patreon, Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free))
Jodie Foster: star (Blank Check — Patreon, The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free))
Anthony Hopkins: what-if Stephen Altman (The Rewatchables, ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
Val Kilmer: what-if Raoul (Heat cast) (The Rewatchables, ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
Jared Leto: actor (Junior) (The Rewatchables, ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
Jared Leto: cast (Blank Check — Patreon, Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free))
Jared Leto: Junior (Blank Check — Patreon, Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free))
Jon Voight: what-if Raoul (The Rewatchables, ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
Angelina Jolie: casting what-if / considered (The Rewatchables, ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
Leighton Meester: joke substitute for Foster in a Netflix version (The Rewatchables, ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
Mel Brooks: what-if: should have done a spoof, played Raul (Blank Check — Patreon, Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free))
Kristen Stewart: actor (The Big Picture, The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’)
Kristen Stewart: actor (Sarah) (The Rewatchables, ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
Kristen Stewart: Sarah (daughter) (Blank Check — Patreon, Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free))
Darius Khondji: cinematographer (quit or fired six weeks in) (The Rewatchables, ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
Darius Khondji: DP, left early (quit or fired) (Blank Check — Patreon, Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free))
Dwight Yoakam: actor (Raoul) (The Rewatchables, ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
Dwight Yoakam: Raul (Blank Check — Patreon, Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free))
Conrad Hall: cinematographer (replaced Darius Khondji) (The Rewatchables, ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
Arthur Max: production designer (The Rewatchables, ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
Hayden Panettiere: actor (originally cast as Sarah) (The Rewatchables, ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
Hayden Panettiere: originally announced as the daughter (Blank Check — Patreon, Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free))
Maynard: first-choice casting what-if for Raoul (The Rewatchables, ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
Ted Levine: what-if Raoul (The Rewatchables, ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
Henry Rollins: what-if Raoul (The Rewatchables, ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
Tom Sizemore: what-if Raoul (Heat cast) (The Rewatchables, ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
Wes Studi: what-if Raoul (The Rewatchables, ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
Clint Howard: joke what-if (The Rewatchables, ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
Paul Schulze: actor (cop) per Bill's group (The Rewatchables, ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
Paul Schulze: the cop who comes to the door (Blank Check — Patreon, Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free))
Mel Rodriguez: actor (cop) (The Rewatchables, ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
Mel Rodriguez: the other cop (Blank Check — Patreon, Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free))
Maynard (James) Keenan: first choice for Raul, busy with A Perfect Circle (Blank Check — Patreon, Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free))
Patrick Bauchau: the dad (Stephen) (Blank Check — Patreon, Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free))
Ann Magnuson: real estate agent (Blank Check — Patreon, Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free))
Ian Buchanan: real estate agent (Blank Check — Patreon, Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free))
Conrad W. Hall: DP (Blank Check — Patreon, Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free))
Peter Ramsey: main storyboard artist (Blank Check — Patreon, Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free))
ADI: makeup effects team, last thing they did with Fincher (Blank Check — Patreon, Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free))
Gavin Polone: producer (a Polone production in the credits) (Blank Check — Patreon, Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free))