Henry Thomas

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q506198: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, which Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri credits them on.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982); Gangs of New York (2002); Doctor Sleep (2019).

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 acted in: 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 acted in: 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 acted in: 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 acted in: 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 acted in: 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 acted in: 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)

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977): 1 line

  1. theme (theme) · through E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), which they acted in: Close Encounters of the Third Kind ⇒ E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (the host's read). Close Encounters sets a template for science fiction and for stories about families and divorce.
    “It sets a different kind of template for science fiction storytelling, for stories about families, for stories about obsession, for stories about divorce”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:19:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

Doctor Sleep (King's novel): 1 line

  1. lineage (adaptation) · through Doctor Sleep (2019), which they acted in: 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)

The Shining (King's novel): 1 line

  1. unmapped (restored ending) · through Doctor Sleep (2019), which they acted in: 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 acted in: 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.

Starman (1984): 1 line

  1. industry (studio rivalry / shadow) · through E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), which they acted in: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial ⇒ Starman (the host's read). Columbia chose Starman over Night Skies, which Universal turned into E.T., so Starman carried the stigma of the one that got away and then looked like a ripoff.
    “Uh, so they let go of night skies and let Universal acquire and turnaround.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Starman with Katey Rich · 0:24:25 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Stranger Things: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), which they acted in: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial ⇒ Stranger Things (the host's read). E.T. has been so imitated, in films and TV like Stranger Things, that the original feels less rewarding.
    “so many people have like basically based entire film franchises or television shows Stranger Things off of that”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:33:46 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (4) everyone in acting

What was said about them, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career parallel): Christian Bale → Henry Thomas. Both were kid actors Spielberg discovered who had to escape that shadow before being safe as adult actors.
    “Christian Bale had a bit of a parallel Henry Thomas arc where for a while it was like he can't come out from the shadow of him being a kid that Spielberg discovered”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 1:12:23 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. 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)

Fun items about them

None.