Joan Didion

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q267691: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as writer, the making department they hold the most credits in. The films the hosts said they wrote, which the two lists below run through too: The Last Thing He Wanted.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

No line says they, or a film of theirs, drew on anything.

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

No line says anything drew on them or a film of theirs.

What the speakers said they did

Writing (1) everyone in writing

novelist (source), The Last Thing He Wanted (The Big Picture, The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview)

Other (3) everyone in other

Griffin's aunt, n/a (The Rewatchables, ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey)
once attached screenwriter (with John Gregory Dunne), The Secret History (unmade) (The Big Picture, 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular)
author of The Year of Magical Thinking (Blank Check — Patreon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free))

What was said about them, by kind

lineage (1)

lineage (line origin): Joan Didion → The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. A line in the film was something Roth's mother said in the hospital, tied by the speaker to Didion's Year of Magical Thinking.
“Joan Didian's book, the year of magical thinking.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:43:40 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

unmapped (family): Griffin Dunn → Joan Didion. Griffin is the nephew of John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion and helps shepherd Didion's legacy.
“his and uncle were, um, John Gregory Dunn and Joan Didier.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:17:37 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

what-if (what-if): Joan Didion → Gwyneth Paltrow. The Secret History was once to be scripted by Didion and Dunne and later developed by Gwyneth Paltrow and her brother.
“there was a script by Joan Didian and John Gregory Dunn”
The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:42:22 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

None.