Joe Johnston

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q352948: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to Captain America: The First Avenger, which Captain America: The First Avenger credits them on.

Counted as director, the making department they hold the most credits in. The films the hosts said they directed, which the two lists below run through too: The Rocketeer (1991); Jurassic Park III (2001); The Wolfman (2010); Captain America: The First Avenger (2011). Count them as craft (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.

Aliens (1986): 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), which they directed: Aliens ⇒ Captain America: The First Avenger (the host's read). The frozen-find cold open structurally echoes the discovery sequence that opens Aliens.
    “this is also actually very similar to is the opening of aliens.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:10:43 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Iron Man 2 (2010): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), which they directed: Iron Man 2 ⇒ Captain America: The First Avenger (the host's read). The Stark Expo of the 1940s is the origin of the Expo seen in Iron Man 2, now as the full World's Fair version.
    “Like what we see in Iron Man 2, but now it's like the full like 40s World Fair version.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:19:47 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Truth: Red, White & Black (comic): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), which they directed: Truth: Red, White & Black (comic) ⇒ Captain America: The First Avenger (the host's read). The one-off serum process loosely connects to the Truth miniseries retcon about earlier black experimentees.
    “Truth is a book that essentially theorizes that there was like a Tuskegee airman.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:47:45 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

Black Panther (2018): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), which they directed: Captain America: The First Avenger ⇒ Black Panther (the host's read). Vibranium, the shield metal, leads to Wakanda; adamantium is the X-Men analogue the MCU couldn't use.
    “So instead they use vibranium as their super metal.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:27:32 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), which they directed: Captain America: The First Avenger ⇒ Captain America: The Winter Soldier (the host's read). Zola surviving and joining the other side is the seed for Winter Soldier.
    “Because you need Zola to join the other side.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:34:27 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Captain Marvel (2019): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), which they directed: Captain America: The First Avenger ⇒ Captain Marvel (the host's read). The film goes back to the Steve Rogers style of origin story.
    “here's how Steve Rogers became a super soldier style of storytelling.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:03:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

Chris Pratt: 1 line

  1. industry (industry) · through Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), which they directed: Captain America: The First Avenger ⇒ Chris Pratt (the host's read). The beefcake shot of Pratt echoes Chris Evans out of the tank, and Marvel now puts one in every trailer.
    “It's Chris Evans coming out of the tank, Captain America.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 0:37:48 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Directing (5) everyone in directing

Craft (1) everyone in craft

What was said about them, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career): Joe Johnston → The Wolfman. Cap was a comeback for Johnston after the calamity of The Wolfman.
    “This was a real, like, comeback for Joe Johnson, because this was after the calamity of Wolfman.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:50:27 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): Joe Johnston → Captain America: The First Avenger. Johnston is a Disney guy, so the 40s-to-60s retro-futurism (flying car, Expo) suits him.
    “Johnston is such a Disney guy.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:21:29 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (people): Joe Johnston → The Iron Giant. The hosts list Johnston's earlier work in passing: the Boba Fett design and, they seem to mean, The Iron Giant (not actually his; the transcript is muddled).
    “Designed Boba Fett.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:14:05 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

verdict (1)

  1. verdict (verdict): Captain America: The First Avenger → Joe Johnston. Great film but a generic final act, a shame since Johnston suits the material.
    “Which is genuinely too bad because Joe Johnson is so suited to it.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 1:49:19 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  1. what-if (what-if): Joe Johnston → Louis Leterrier. Leterrier wanted to direct Cap and Marvel brushed him off.
    “Did you know that Louis Letierrier was like, I want to direct this movie and Marvel was like, ha, ha, ha.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 2:04:38 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

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