Tony Kushner

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q704433: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to The Fabelmans, which The 2022 Movie Draft credits them on.

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: Lincoln (2012); The Fabelmans (2022).

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.

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981): 2 lines

theme (theme) · through The Fabelmans (2022), which they wrote: The Fabelmans ⇒ Raiders of the Lost Ark (the host's read). Marion's monkey scenes mirror Spielberg's mother's relationship with the monkey shown in The Fabelmans.
“the relationship Marion has with the monkey, in that brief amount of screen time, feels so mirrored to his mother's relationship with the monkey”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 2:28:09 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
theme (theme) · through The Fabelmans (2022), which they wrote: The Fabelmans ⇒ Raiders of the Lost Ark (the host's read). Marion is partly Spielberg's mother, which keeps her from being an idealized tough-girl fantasy.
“it does feel like to some degree she's like his mom.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 2:28:40 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Writing (3) everyone in writing

co-writer, The Fabelmans (The Big Picture, The 2022 Movie Draft)
co-writer, The Fabelmans (The Big Picture, The Top Five Movies of 2022)
screenwriter, Lincoln (The Big Picture, Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57))

What was said about them, by kind

people (1)

people (collaboration): Tony Kushner → The Fabelmans. Amanda notes Spielberg wrote The Fabelmans with Tony Kushner, making it a deep but active collaboration.
“he wrote it with Tony Kushner.”
The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:40:27 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

None.