Bill Paxton

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q110374: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to Twister, which 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion 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 (19 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.

Twisters (2024): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · them, directly: Bill Paxton ⇒ Twisters (the host's read). Powell calls Twisters a seminal movie of his Texas upbringing and honors Paxton from the original.
    “Bill Paxton was such a, you know, he's a Texas film hall of fame guy”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ With Bill Simmons, Glen Powell, and Chris Ryan · 0:09:36 · Glen Powell (0.90 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (32) everyone in acting

Other (1) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (12)

  1. career (career): Bill Paxton → Aliens. Paxton is funny even in serious movies like Aliens (game over, man).
    “And then even in serious movies like aliens, when he's just like, you know, game over, man”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:22:05 · Bill Simmons (0.45 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Bill Paxton → Weird Science. Bill first knew Paxton as Chet in Weird Science, then he became a classic.
    “I knew Bill Paxton initially is Chet and weird science.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:13:27 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Bill Paxton → Trespass. Trespass, with Ice-T and Ice Cube, is cited as a high-concept treasure-hunt movie that feels important and is probably on Tubi.
    “kind of a high concept movie for the era.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:14:03 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Bill Paxton → True Lies. In the 90s Paxton had important non-lead roles in True Lies, Tombstone and Apollo 13 before finally leading Twister.
    “And then Twister, he finally gets the lead.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:15:22 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. career (career): Bill Paxton → Titanic. Paxton's run of key supporting roles culminates with the Twister lead and then Titanic.
    “And then that all culminates in Titanic.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:15:29 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. career (career): Bill Paxton → Sam Neill. Like Sam Neill, Paxton did not become a star because the audience remembers the spectacle (storms, dinosaurs), not the lead.
    “So the star of this movie is are the tornadoes.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:17:04 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  7. career (career): Bill Paxton → Kevin Bacon. Paxton belongs to the Kevin Bacon, Bill Pullman, Kiefer Sutherland tier; the third guy in the cocktail with Tom Hanks in Apollo 13.
    “Apollo 13 tanks.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:21:03 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
  8. career (career): Bill Paxton → Aliens. Paxton and Biehn were supposed to be the stars of Aliens in any other world.
    “Paxton and Bean are supposed to, like, in any other world, be the stars of aliens”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:53:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  9. career (career): Bill Paxton → Training Day (TV series). Paxton went from Edge to the CBS Training Day series, which he died during.
    “He goes from this to the, um, uh, training day TV show and then he dies.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:14:53 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  10. career (career): Bill Paxton → Nightcrawler. Paxton is in Nightcrawler and is really good in it.
    “Really good in that.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:16:15 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  11. career (career): Bill Paxton → Big Love (TV series). Big Love was his apex moment on a prestige show, with Emmy nominations.
    “he finally got his sort of apex moment on his prestige show.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:16:48 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  12. career (career): Bill Paxton → Million Dollar Arm. Paxton ruled the box office one last time in Million Dollar Arm.
    “Bill Paxton.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:45:02 · Ben Hosley (0.40 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (lineage): Twisters → Bill Paxton. Powell calls Twisters a seminal movie of his Texas upbringing and honors Paxton from the original.
    “Bill Paxton was such a, you know, he's a Texas film hall of fame guy”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ With Bill Simmons, Glen Powell, and Chris Ryan · 0:09:36 · Glen Powell (0.90 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (falling out): John Hughes → Bill Paxton. Paxton turned down the garage attendant role as too small and was never offered work by Hughes again.
    “he offered him the role of the garage attendant, Ferris, and Paxton turned it down.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:00:37 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

theme (1)

  1. theme (theme): Bill Paxton → Tom Cruise. Paxton, who worked every position in the Corman system, shares Cruise's 'isn't this great, we're making movies' reputation.
    “he had the Tom Cruise thing of like, isn't this great?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:17:27 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

what-if (4)

  1. what-if (what-if): Bill Paxton → George Clooney. Chris argues Paxton could have led Out of Sight instead of Clooney; Van counters that Paxton lacks the movie-star magnetism for the trunk scene with J.Lo.
    “I think he could have been the lead guy and out of sight instead of Clooney and out of sight.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:19:37 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. what-if (what-if): Bill Paxton → Brian Cranston. Paxton is the type who needs a late-career role made for him, like a bad guy on Ozark.
    “He's also the kind of guy to me that catches a role that's made for him late in his career.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:21:10 · Van Lathan (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. what-if (what-if): Bill Paxton → Tom Hanks. Hanks read for Bill, passed, and suggested Paxton; Hanks even had wardrobe ready, so Paxton got the role via a big star.
    “Tom Hanks read for the part of Bill.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:16:53 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. what-if (what-if): Bill Paxton → Aliens. A proposed category: actors reprising a different character from their own filmography; Paxton just doing Hudson from Aliens and screaming Cows.
    “Bill Paxton from Aliens?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:40:53 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Bill Paxton: Chet is in only three scenes, takes an hour off, and yet is the best Weird Science.
    “but I think the best weird science is when he's on screen.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:42:18 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Bill Paxton: Paxton showed up in the party scene in sunglasses and a trench coat just to be around the set; cast calls him the nicest person.
    “Apparently he dresses up in his sunglasses in a trench coat, trench coat, and he's in the party scene.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:21:36 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Bill Paxton: Storm chasers in the spotter network spelled out his initials when he died in 2017 to honor him.
    “they spelt out his initials when he passed away in 2017 to honor him.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:58:39 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Bill Paxton: Paxton's monologue is an 'all the mustard' performance; on first watch it seems too much, but on repeat it becomes an anchor because of its fixed rhythms.
    “it's an all the mustard performance”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:01:07 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Bill Paxton: Science Hill, Kentucky, where Paxton says he's from: nobody knows why it's called that, and Wikipedia cites Edge of Tomorrow.
    “It does cite Edge of Tomorrow though.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:01:58 · Ben Hosley (0.40 sure it was them)