Joel Silver

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q539718: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to Die Hard 2, which ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey credits them on.

Counted as producer, the making department they hold the most credits in. The films the hosts said they produced, which the two lists below run through too: Predator (1987); Die Hard 2 (1990); The Hudsucker Proxy (1994); The Matrix (1999); Gothika (2003); Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005); Sherlock Holmes (2009); Die Hard (films).

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.

58 Minutes (1987): 1 line

  1. lineage (source material) · through Die Hard 2 (1990), which they produced: 58 Minutes ⇒ Die Hard 2 (the host's read). The screenplay was adapted from Walter Wager's 1987 novel with a similar plot.
    “Screenplay was adapted from Walter Wagers.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:19:50 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)

Manuel Noriega: 1 line

  1. lineage (real-world inspiration) · through Die Hard 2 (1990), which they produced: Manuel Noriega ⇒ Die Hard 2 (the maker said so: the screenwriter admitted it). The writer admitted the script grabbed smoke from Iran-Contra and Manuel Noriega.
    “there's definitely some Iran Contra, kind of, they're just grabbing smoke from that whole scandal and shoehorning into this with Manuel Noriega in real life.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:20:16 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Prey (2022): 2 lines

  1. programming (programming) · through Predator (1987), which they produced: Predator ⇒ Prey (the host's read). She is watching Predator as homework before the prequel Prey.
    “I'm doing my homework before watching Prey, the predator prequel”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:16:31 · Sarah Marshall (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. industry (franchise) · through Predator (1987), which they produced: Predator ⇒ Prey (the host's read). Prey is chronologically a prequel but accepted as part of the franchise.
    “Prey is chronologically a prequel.”
    The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 1:13:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Positive K: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Die Hard 2 (1990), which they produced: Die Hard 2 ⇒ Positive K (the host's read). Positive K's song 'I Got a Man' samples a line from Die Hard 2, so the song now brings the movie to mind.
    “And then that line got sampled on, I got a man, the positive K song. So now every time you hear that song, you hear that line from that movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:43:06 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Matrix (1999), which they produced: The Matrix ⇒ Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (the host's read). Sean breaks the staging down into influences: Bruce Lee, The Matrix, and Phantom of the Paradise.
    “It's one part Bruce Lee, one part the Matrix, one part Phantom of the Paradise.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:03:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Producing (8) everyone in producing

What was said about them, by kind

people (2)

  1. people (producer): Joel Silver → Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Silver produced Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, written by his Lethal Weapon writer Shane Black, which became Downey's leading-man calling card.
    “which was produced by Joel Silver, one of by Shane Black, who wrote some of Joel Silver's biggest hits.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 0:19:37 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. people (producer): Die Hard 2 → Joel Silver. Simmons loves that Joel Silver chose to run Val Verde back.
    “I love that Joel Silver was like, let's just run fucking Valverde back.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:59:13 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

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