John Cusack

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q106175: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to The Player, which 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris credits them on.

No film of theirs is counted: acting and studio count only when asked for, so what they drew on and who drew on them comes only from the lines with them at one end. Count them as actor (9 films) instead.

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

Acting (9) everyone in acting

actor, America's Sweethearts (Blank Check with Griffin & David, Planet of the Apes with Matt Singer)
actor (breakout), The Sure Thing (The Rewatchables, ‘Misery’ With Bill Simmons and Brian Koppelman)
actor (cameo), The Player (The Rewatchables, 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris)
actor (Lloyd Dobler), Say Anything... (The Rewatchables, ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan)
actor (Hoops McCann), One Crazy Summer (The Rewatchables, ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan)
actor, Better Off Dead (The Rewatchables, ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan)
actor (older Brian Wilson), Love and Mercy (The Big Picture, ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics)
lead (the hitman), Grosse Pointe Blank (Blank Check — Patreon, The Killer with Marie Bardi (Ad-Free))
actor, Runaway Jury (Blank Check — Patreon, In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free))

Other (2) everyone in other

actor (considered for Lance), Pulp Fiction (The Rewatchables, ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
backup for Ferris, Ferris Bueller's Day Off (The Rewatchables, ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan)

What was said about them, by kind

unmapped (1)

unmapped (archetype): John Cusack → One Crazy Summer. Hoops McCann is another great Cusack high schooler like Ferris.
“Hoops in in one Crazy Summer is kind of a great high school character”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:58:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

what-if (2)

what-if (what-if): Eric Stoltz → John Cusack. Lance was first imagined as Cusack or Oldman, with Stoltz a backup to the backup.
“So, Lance, he wanted John Cusack initially, or maybe Gary Oldman”
The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:42:22 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)
what-if (casting what-if / archetype): John Cusack → Say Anything.... Cusack was the backup for Ferris, and Lloyd Dobler is in the same vein as Ferris.
“I think Lloyd Dobbler is sort of in the same vein as Ferris.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:59:11 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

None.