Shane Black

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q726126: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as writer. The films the hosts said they wrote, which the two lists below run through too: Lethal Weapon (1987); The Last Boy Scout (1991); Last Action Hero (1993); The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996); Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005); Iron Man 3 (2013); Lethal Weapon (films). Count them as director (3 films), actor (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.

Iron Man (2008): 2 lines

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Iron Man 3 (2013), which they wrote: Iron Man ⇒ Iron Man 3 (the host's read). The Iron Man trilogy is closed into a circle by the flashback to the party and Becca Hall and Pierce.
    “as individualistic as this movie is, it actually like... It's bringing the 1st 2 complete.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:18:57 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. theme (theme) · through Iron Man 3 (2013), which they wrote: Iron Man ⇒ Iron Man 3 (the host's read). Iron Man 3 later parodies the Osama-type Mandarin expectation that Iron Man originally planned (Ten Rings leader, no magic).
    “And then Iron Man 3 wisely parodies that expectation.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 1:25:03 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

The Avengers (2012): 2 lines

  1. theme (theme) · through Iron Man 3 (2013), which they wrote: The Avengers ⇒ Iron Man 3 (the host's read). Stark's arc across three Iron Man films peaks in Iron Man 3, and Avengers lays the track for its PTSD.
    “Iron Man 3 is all him being unable to cope with the psychological like trauma of this.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 2:07:49 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage) · through Iron Man 3 (2013), which they wrote: The Avengers ⇒ Iron Man 3 (the host's read). Iron Man 3 works as a quasi-sequel to The Avengers because it deals with Tony's trauma of the portal and aliens.
    “Except it's it is a sort of quasi sequel to the Avengers in that it's dealing with the fact that he got sucked into a portal into space for a 2nd there.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:15:43 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Fu Manchu (character): 1 line

  1. theme (theme) · through Iron Man 3 (2013), which they wrote: Fu Manchu (character) ⇒ Iron Man 3 (the host's read). The Mandarin is a Fu Manchu stereotype that Marvel could not play straight, so Kingsley's false-flag twist threads the needle.
    “Because the Mandarin is Fu Manchu.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 1:06:17 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Iron Man 2 (2010): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Iron Man 3 (2013), which they wrote: Iron Man 2 ⇒ Iron Man 3 (the host's read). Iron Man 2's failure forced something new, giving Shane Black room to make a better third film.
    “But also, that is why the 3rd one is good because the 2nd one was such a mistake that they were like, we don't know.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:20:47 · Griffin or David (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

Writing (10) everyone in writing

Directing (8) everyone in directing

Acting (1) everyone in acting

What was said about them, by kind

career (5)

  1. career (career): Shane Black → Iron Man 3. Shane Black (cameo here) directed Iron Man 3, which cut Chris.
    “Director of Fireman 3, who later cut me from his film.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · As Good as It Gets with Chris Gethard · 1:36:26 · Chris Gethard (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Shane Black → Last Action Hero. Black's Last Action Hero is called the downfall that followed his boy-genius era.
    “He wrote Last Boys Guy, who wrote Last Action Hero, which is sort of his downfall.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:11:31 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Shane Black → Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Black came back from the Last Action Hero/Long Kiss Goodnight flops with a small personal film using two stars on the downslope.
    “It was like the biggest spec script sale of all time, and then it flops, and he kind of goes under until Kiss, kiss, bang, bang, which is like now he's making smaller personal film with 2 movie stars who are on the downslope, like he got them cheap.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:11:45 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Robert Downey Jr. → Shane Black. Downey is described as pulling Black up after Kiss Kiss Bang Bang failed and sent Black back to drink; Black says he got sober for this movie.
    “Shane Black was like, I got sober for this movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:12:29 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  5. career (career): Shane Black → The Predator. Iron Man 3's success gave Black the chance to bring Predator back.
    “And then that probably gave Shane, the opportunity to bring a predator back.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:20:56 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): Shane Black → Lethal Weapon. Black wrote Lethal Weapon, and the movie's last act turns Rhodey and Stark into a Lethal Weapon-style buddy cop pair.
    “You get this last this last act where suddenly like roadie and Stark become like a buddy cop team.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 1:43:23 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

industry (2)

  1. industry (industry): Shane Black → Joe Eszterhas. Black and Eszterhas were in an arms race for the biggest spec-script sales.
    “and he and Ersterhaus, who we've covered, who did show girls in basic instinct, were in this like arms race to see who could sell more scripts for higher amounts of money”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:11:05 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. industry (industry): Kevin Feige → Shane Black. Feige's stated aim in hiring Black was to restore Tony Stark-in-the-cave stakes after Iron Man 2 made him invincible.
    “We wanted to get back to that feeling of Tony Stark in the cave with the scratch.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:13:12 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

people (3)

  1. people (writer): Shane Black → Lethal Weapon (films). Black wrote Lethal Weapon, one of Silver's biggest hits.
    “Lethal weapon, although...”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 0:19:42 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Robert Downey Jr. → Shane Black. Downey, who worked with Black on Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, was the obvious route to getting Black the Marvel job.
    “But he was an obvious choice to work with Robert Downey Jr.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:09:22 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. people (people): Shane Black → Mel Gibson. Black says the only way he does Iron Man 4 is if Mel Gibson directs, because Gibson stuck his neck out for Downey.
    “The only way he'll do Iron Man 4 is if Marvel lets Mel Gibson right directly.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:16:49 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

theme (1)

  1. theme (theme): Shane Black → Tony Stark. Black's near-collapse through fame, addiction and sobriety maps onto Tony Stark's arc, as man and as comics character.
    “There's a real clear map between Shane Black and Tony Stark, both as the Robert Dine Jr. character and as the comic book character, who almost succumbs to like his own vices.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:12:40 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

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