Tobey Maguire

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q165524: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as producer. The films the hosts said they produced, which the two lists below run through too: Brittany Runs a Marathon (2019); Babylon (2022). Count them as actor (6 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.

Singin' in the Rain (1952): 5 lines

craft (scene mirror) · through Babylon (2022), which they produced: Singin' in the Rain ⇒ Babylon (the host's read). Babylon's walk-on bar scene mirrors the flashback that opens Singin' in the Rain, where Don Lockwood gets a walk-on.
“Um, Don Lockwood gets a walk on part in a bar in that like in that flashback to start the movie.”
The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:48:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (homage) · through Babylon (2022), which they produced: Singin' in the Rain ⇒ Babylon (the host's read). A speaker calls the sound-stage scene a direct Singin' in the Rain homage, 'on steroids times a 1000'.
“Again, like a very, very direct homage.”
The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 1:13:47 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
theme (echo) · through Babylon (2022), which they produced: Singin' in the Rain ⇒ Babylon (the host's read). The silent-to-sound struggle scene in Babylon echoes Singin' in the Rain, down to the actress who cannot find the microphone.
“And that is a huge echo of singing in the rain.”
The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 1:14:54 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
craft (scene mirror) · through Babylon (2022), which they produced: Singin' in the Rain ⇒ Babylon (the host's read). A Babylon moment is said to echo Don and Kathy Selden from Singin' in the Rain.
“Also, echoes of Don and Kathy Selden.”
The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 1:44:09 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
lineage (homage) · through Babylon (2022), which they produced: Singin' in the Rain ⇒ Babylon (the host's read). The speaker says Babylon is deliberately built around Singin' in the Rain, with specific scenes mirrored on purpose.
“But it is so intentionally built around singing in the rain that I do think the mirroring of the specific scenes are intentional.”
The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 2:51:30 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

John Gilbert: 1 line

unmapped (real-life basis) · through Babylon (2022), which they produced: John Gilbert ⇒ Babylon (the host's read). Brad Pitt's character in Babylon is obviously based on John Gilbert.
“John Gilbert, who Brad Pitt's character in Babylon, is very obviously based on”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator with James Urbaniak · 2:09:22 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

La La Land (2016): 1 line

craft (score reuse) · through Babylon (2022), which they produced: La La Land ⇒ Babylon (the host's read). The Babylon score is said to reappropriate music from La La Land's dream ballet.
“This is like very much from the dream ballet of La Land, this music and the score.”
The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:57:59 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Mike Nichols: 1 line

lineage (influence) · through Brittany Runs a Marathon (2019), which they produced: Mike Nichols ⇒ Brittany Runs a Marathon (the maker said so: on the show, Colaizzo describing his own influences). Colaizzo studied theater-to-film directors Nichols, Kazan, May and Mamet.
“Well, like Mike Nichols did that, Ellie? Kazan, um, Elaine May, you know, works as a director, as a writer, and, and, you know, I could feel that David Mammoth, same thing.”
The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 1:01:08 · Paul Downs Colaizzo (0.90 sure it was them)

The Big Sick (2017): 1 line

industry (distribution model) · through Brittany Runs a Marathon (2019), which they produced: The Big Sick ⇒ Brittany Runs a Marathon (the maker said so: Colaizzo on why he chose Amazon). Colaizzo picked Amazon because The Big Sick had both a theatrical life and home accessibility.
“I wanted to be an Amazon. The reason I wanted to be at Amazon was because the big sick, because the way the big sick was handled.”
The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 1:21:29 · Paul Downs Colaizzo (0.90 sure it was them)

The Dancing Cavalier (film-within-Singin' in the Rain; heard also as 'link cavalier'): 1 line

craft (scene mirror) · through Babylon (2022), which they produced: The Dancing Cavalier (film-within-Singin' in the Rain; heard also as 'link cavalier') ⇒ Babylon (the host's read). The audience in Babylon's screening laughs at the same dialogue ('I love you') as in Singin' in the Rain's screening of The Dancing Cavalier.
“They're literally laughing at the exact same dialogue in the screening that they do of the link cavalier.”
The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 1:56:30 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021): 1 line

lineage (series lineage) · through Babylon (2022), which they produced: Zack Snyder's Justice League ⇒ Babylon (the maker said so: the hosts' own account of the show). The Snyder Cut watch-along, born of a lost bet, started the show's watch-along concept that led to this one.
“The Snyder, the Snyder Cut thing was a bet that we lost, that Sean was like, if that, that's how the watch along concept started.”
The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 3:06:12 · unknown (0.30 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

What was said about them, by kind

career (2)

career (career): Tobey Maguire → Pleasantville. Simmons says Ice Storm led to Pleasantville and to Maguire becoming a thing.
“But Toby, this led to Pleasantville and Toby becoming a thing.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:51:39 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
career (career): Tobey Maguire → Molly's Game. Maguire's wolf-in-sheep's-clothing persona, as Molly's Game illustrated, is read back onto his Ice Storm sad sack.
“I think that McGuire's whole thing at the time, as Molly's game sort of illustrated was being the wolf in sheep's clothing.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:30:58 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

people (3)

people (casting praise): Tobey Maguire → Babylon. Maguire is said to be so perfectly cast that he makes the surreal, absurd Los Angeles sequence work.
“I think Toby McGuire is so perfectly cast and so good in this that, it, it makes this surreal and the absurdity of this work for me.”
The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 2:25:03 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
people (producer): Brittany Runs a Marathon → Tobey Maguire. Tobey Maguire and Matt Plouffe's company bought the script off the log line and developed it for 2.5 years.
“it was really Toby McGuire and Matt Pluffet material.”
The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 1:03:09 · Paul Downs Colaizzo (0.90 sure it was them)
people (people): Tobey Maguire → This Boy's Life. Maguire already knew Leo from This Boy's Life, so they were in the same circle.
“he makes this boy's life with Leo in 93.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:31:15 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

fun, about Tobey Maguire: On set the day Sense and Sensibility got its Oscar nominations, Maguire's congratulations got a blank what?
“Tob McGuire said he went up to him on set that day, and said, congratulations, and he said, what?”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:21:42 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)