Mike Flanagan

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q19668417: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to Ouija: Origin of Evil, which The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! credits them on.

Counted as director, the making department they hold the most credits in. The films the hosts said they directed, which the two lists below run through too: Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016); Doctor Sleep (2019); Absentia; Before I Wake; Fall of the House of Usher (TV); Gerald's Game; Hush; Midnight Mass; Oculus; Ouija: Origin of Evil; The Fall of the House of Usher; The Haunting of Hill House; The Midnight Club. Count them as writer (1 film) 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.

The Shining (1980): 6 lines

  1. lineage (sequel) · through Doctor Sleep (2019), which they directed: The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read). Doctor Sleep is the sequel to Kubrick's The Shining, which is the whole sell and the whole problem.
    “You're doing a sequel to The Shining.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:12:41 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (sequel) · through Doctor Sleep (2019), which they directed: The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read). Doctor Sleep is the sequel to The Shining.
    “Dr. Sleep, the sequel to, which I feel like is actually a better movie”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:58:43 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (homage) · through Doctor Sleep (2019), which they directed: The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read). Doctor Sleep has to pay some homage to Kubrick while following a novel whose author hates the film.
    “it has to thread paying some homage to Kubrick”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:14:53 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. lineage (lineage) · through Doctor Sleep (2019), which they directed: The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read). Doctor Sleep's script threads King's book and Kubrick's film, and addresses King's complaint about what Kubrick changed.
    “It addresses the conflict between Stephen King and what he didn't like about the Kubrick movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 0:46:49 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. lineage (lineage) · through Doctor Sleep (2019), which they directed: The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read). Doctor Sleep uses grown-up Danny and a new generation, Abra Stone.
    “Using a familiar figure from the original film in Danny, the grown up Danny”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:31:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. lineage (sequel) · through Doctor Sleep (2019), which they directed: The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read). Doctor Sleep is named as a continuation of The Shining, with the Stephen King thing.
    “There's also Doctor Sleep.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 2:48:12 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Stanley Kubrick: 2 lines

  1. unmapped (learned sustained tension) · them, directly: Stanley Kubrick ⇒ Mike Flanagan (the maker said so: a Flanagan quote the host reads from the research dossier). Flanagan, quoted from the hosts' dossier, says he learned sustaining tension over jump scares from Kubrick.
    “I'm much more interested in sustaining tension, which I learned from Mr. Stanley Cooper.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:13:41 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. craft (style borrowed) · them, directly: Stanley Kubrick ⇒ Mike Flanagan (the host's read). Flanagan replicates the Kubrick style in Doctor Sleep without it feeling like pastiche.
    “He replicates the Kubrick style incredibly well in that movie without it feeling like force pastiche.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:14:38 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Doctor Sleep (King's novel): 1 line

  1. lineage (adaptation) · through Doctor Sleep (2019), which they directed: Doctor Sleep (King's novel) ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read). The film is an adaptation of King's Doctor Sleep, a bestseller Warner Brothers optioned.
    “Warner Brothers, option the rights, put Akiva Goldsman on it.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:14:23 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Stephen King: 1 line

  1. lineage (adaptation) · through Gerald's Game, which they directed: Stephen King ⇒ Gerald's Game (the host's read). Gerald's Game is a King adaptation, which gave Flanagan a King connection before Doctor Sleep.
    “I guess Gerald's game is a king adaptation, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:12:29 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

The Shining (King's novel): 1 line

  1. unmapped (restored ending) · through Doctor Sleep (2019), which they directed: The Shining (King's novel) ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the maker said so: something the speaker read that Flanagan said (his pitch to King)). Flanagan pitched going back to the Overlook as a means to restore the burn-down ending of King's book, which won King over.
    “he said, I'm going to go back to the Overlook, but as means to an end to restore your ending.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:16:33 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Wendy Carlos: 1 line

  1. craft (score reused) · through Doctor Sleep (2019), which they directed: Wendy Carlos ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read). Doctor Sleep uses the Wendy Carlos Shining score and holds off on it for a long time.
    “Even just the way they use the Wendy Carlos score and hold off on it for a long time.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:16:19 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

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

Directing (18) everyone in directing

Writing (2) everyone in writing

What was said about them, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career): Mike Flanagan → Doctor Sleep. Flanagan has Doctor Sleep, the Shining sequel, coming.
    “who has Dr. Sleet, the shining sequel coming later”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:07:43 · unknown (Alexander or Karaszewski) (0.40 sure it was them)

craft (1)

  1. craft (style borrowed): Stanley Kubrick → Mike Flanagan. Flanagan replicates the Kubrick style in Doctor Sleep without it feeling like pastiche.
    “He replicates the Kubrick style incredibly well in that movie without it feeling like force pastiche.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:14:38 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (lineage): Mike Flanagan → Guillermo del Toro. Flanagan is to horror what del Toro is to fantasy.
    “like the way that Guillermo del Toro is related to fantasy”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:08:12 · unknown (Alexander or Karaszewski) (0.40 sure it was them)

people (3)

  1. people (people): Doctor Sleep → Mike Flanagan. Mike Flanagan directed Doctor Sleep, a stylistic step forward from Kubrick.
    “Mike Flanagan's sequel adaptation of Stephen King's The Shining.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:31:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Ouija: Origin of Evil → Mike Flanagan. Origin of Evil is Flanagan's Ouija sequel, and a good one.
    “Ouija Origin of Evil, which is Flanagan's Ouija Equal. Good movie.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:34:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  3. people (regular collaborator): Mike Flanagan → Henry Thomas. Henry Thomas is one of Flanagan's stable actors.
    “one of my Flanagan's favorite, like, stable actors.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:19:03 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

programming (1)

  1. programming (recommendation): Mike Flanagan → Ouija: Origin of Evil. The second Ouija film, directed by Flanagan, is really good, as is the Daley-Goldstein D&D film.
    “I mean, I do think the 2nd Mike Flanagan Ouija movie is really good.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 1:35:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

theme (1)

  1. theme (King-like author character): Mike Flanagan → The Haunting of Hill House. Hill House has a character who becomes a paperback author very similar to King.
    “one of the characters becomes like a, like, an author of, like, paperback, like, novels very similar to King.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:13:04 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)

unmapped (4)

  1. unmapped (proof of concept): Mike Flanagan → Stephen King. Flanagan wrote the bar scene before the script and gave it to King as a sample of how he would thread the needle.
    “He wrote that before he wrote the script and gave that to King”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:17:01 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (no CGI Nicholson): Mike Flanagan → Doctor Sleep. Flanagan reportedly considered a CGI Jack Nicholson and chose four new actors instead.
    “do we make like a CGI Jack Nicholson?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:18:13 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (worked together before): Mike Flanagan → Jacob Tremblay. Flanagan had directed Tremblay before in Before I Wake.
    “You know, he's worked with Tremblay before, because Tremblay isn't before I wake.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:00:59 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. unmapped (learned sustained tension): Stanley Kubrick → Mike Flanagan. Flanagan, quoted from the hosts' dossier, says he learned sustaining tension over jump scares from Kubrick.
    “I'm much more interested in sustaining tension, which I learned from Mr. Stanley Cooper.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:13:41 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Mike Flanagan: Flanagan, now near A-list, is seen as Stephen King's Kevin Feige: The Stand, Dark Tower and Carrie.
    “Stephen King needs a Kevin Feige”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:32:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Mike Flanagan: Flanagan wrote the bar scene before the script and sent it to King as proof of concept; a host jokes he slipped a $20 in the pages.
    “He slipped a crisp 20 into those pages.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:17:16 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Mike Flanagan: Flanagan says he hates jump scares and learned to sustain tension from Kubrick.
    “I hate jump scares.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:13:28 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)