Todd Phillips

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q362824: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to Old School, which ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey credits them on.

Counted as director. The films the hosts said they directed, which the two lists below run through too: Frat House (1998); Road Trip (2000); Old School (2003); The Hangover (2009); Due Date (2010); Joker (2019); (unnamed clown film); Bittersweet Motel; Hated. Count them as writer (1 film), actor (1 film), producer (2 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.

Animal House (1978): 2 lines

lineage (genre lineage) · through Old School (2003), which they directed: Animal House ⇒ Old School (the host's read). Animal House started the habit of a winnable conflict set-piece that comedies copied for ten years, and Old School revived it.
“I think Animal House started it and then the next 10 years of comedy is ripped off”
The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:34:48 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (genre lineage) · through Old School (2003), which they directed: Animal House ⇒ Old School (the host's read). Old School is the latest in a frat-movie cycle that returns every 10 to 15 years, starting with Animal House.
“It is in keeping with the kind of every 10 to 15 years frat movie that we now get.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:05:23 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

Ivan Reitman: 2 lines

lineage (filmmaker lineage) · through Old School (2003), which they directed: Ivan Reitman ⇒ Old School (the host's read). Phillips and Armstrong's movie owes a lot to Ivan Reitman's 80s comedies; it is their son.
“it owes a lot to the Ivan Reitman comedies of the 80s.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:05:45 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (mentor-style lineage) · them, directly: Ivan Reitman ⇒ Todd Phillips (the host's read). Phillips' skill of picking people at the right time is something Bill says he learned from Reitman.
“clearly he learned that from Ivan Reitman, who was amazing at that in the 70s, 80s, and 90s.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:07:28 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Back to School (1986): 1 line

craft (shared structural flaw) · through Old School (2003), which they directed: Back to School ⇒ Old School (the host's read). The late competition-element plot is a flaw borrowed from Back to School and also seen in Stripes' war.
“when it starts to become too much like back to school, you know, where there's like a competition element to it.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:34:32 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Frat House (1998): 1 line, within their own work

lineage (creator precursor) · through Old School (2003), which they directed: Frat House ⇒ Old School (the host's read). Phillips' frat documentary is a template for the movie.
“Frat House, which is this really interesting kind of template for the movie that we're going to talk about.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:09:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Martin Scorsese: 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through Joker (2019), which they directed: Martin Scorsese ⇒ Joker (the host's read). Miles imagines Joker as a Scorsese pastiche that may not work.
“it's like a Scorsese Pestiche that just kind of doesn't work”
The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:10:08 · Miles Surrey (0.85 sure it was them)

Road Trip (2000): 1 line, within their own work

people (same director groundwork) · through Old School (2003), which they directed: Road Trip ⇒ Old School (the host's read). Road Trip, Phillips' first narrative film, laid groundwork for the R-rated run; it is set at an upstate New York college like Old School.
“Todd Phillips's 1st movie. First narrative movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:09:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)

There's Something About Mary (1998): 1 line

unmapped (groundwork) · through Old School (2003), which they directed: There's Something About Mary ⇒ Old School (the host's read). Farrelly brothers hits like Mary laid the ground for Road Trip and the R-rated wave.
“All of those kind of laid the ground for, uh, road trip.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:08:55 · Sean Fennessey (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.

Old School (2003): 2 lines, within their own work

lineage (creator precursor) · through Frat House (1998), which they directed: Frat House ⇒ Old School (the host's read). Phillips' frat documentary is a template for the movie.
“Frat House, which is this really interesting kind of template for the movie that we're going to talk about.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:09:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
people (same director groundwork) · through Road Trip (2000), which they directed: Road Trip ⇒ Old School (the host's read). Road Trip, Phillips' first narrative film, laid groundwork for the R-rated run; it is set at an upstate New York college like Old School.
“Todd Phillips's 1st movie. First narrative movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:09:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)

Life of the Party (2018): 1 line

unmapped (borrowed from) · through Old School (2003), which they directed: Old School ⇒ Life of the Party (the host's read). Melissa McCarthy's Life of the Party is basically a solo Old School, down to the closing pop-star performance.
“That is basically like a solo old school about how she goes back to school.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:28:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

What was said about them, by kind

career (1)

career (career obsession): Todd Phillips → Project X. Phillips' recurring subject is how young men, and later aging men, mess up, running from Frat House through Project X to The Hangover.
“he has an obsession with young, how young men fuck up”
The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:10:17 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

industry (1)

industry (industry): Todd Phillips → Hulk Hogan. Fennessey cites the news of a Todd Phillips and Chris Hemsworth Hogan biopic as evidence movies and wrestling are in the air.
“Todd Phillips and Chris Hemsworth are going to be making a movie about the life of Hulk Hogan, movies and wrestling just seem to be in the air.”
The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:02:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

lineage (mentor-style lineage): Todd Phillips → Ivan Reitman. Phillips' skill of picking people at the right time is something Bill says he learned from Reitman.
“clearly he learned that from Ivan Reitman, who was amazing at that in the 70s, 80s, and 90s.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:07:28 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

people (2)

people (director-experiment): Due Date → Todd Phillips. Phillips, fresh off The Hangover, wanted to test how far he could push Downey's prickliness and still be liked.
“I want to try to experiment with how far I can push Danny Jr. in a film and still have audiences like him.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 0:25:09 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
people (people): Joker → Todd Phillips. Todd Phillips is a threat for Best Director.
“I think we got to look out for Todd Phillips.”
The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:51:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them)

unmapped (2)

unmapped (producing partnership): Todd Phillips → Bradley Cooper. Phillips and Bradley Cooper are producing partners, so Phillips could be on stage if A Star Is Born wins.
“he and Bradley Cooper are producing partners.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:06:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
unmapped (hometown): Todd Phillips → Sean Fennessey. Sean and Todd Phillips are both from Long Island's North Shore.
“the person who is also from the North Shore from my hometown is Todd Phillips, director of old school.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:09:33 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

fun, about Todd Phillips: Phillips' first student documentary Hated, about punk singer GG Allin, got him an HBO internship; he helped develop Taxicab Confessions there, then made Frat House, later accused of staging scenes.
“It got him an internship at HBO.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:09:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Todd Phillips: Who Won the Movie: Todd Phillips, who is arguably bigger than Apatow, is directing Joker, and might be on stage for A Star Is Born; he picks people at the right time.
“he definitely picks people at the right time.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:07:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)