Doug Liman

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q349339: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

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: Road House (1989); Swingers (1996); Go (1999); The Bourne Identity (2002); Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005); Jumper (2008); Fair Game (2010); Edge of Tomorrow (2014); American Made (2017); The Wall (2017); Chaos Walking (2021); Locked Down (2021); The Instigators (2024). Count them as cinematographer (3 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.

After Hours (1985): 1 line

  1. lineage (influence) · through Go (1999), which they directed: After Hours ⇒ Go (the host's read). Go is late-90s After Hours with weird cameos.
    “they should have paid royalties to Sworses.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:31:36 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Groundhog Day (1993): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Edge of Tomorrow (2014), which they directed: Groundhog Day ⇒ Edge of Tomorrow (the host's read). The pitch is Groundhog Day as sci-fi action, and it keeps the loop while adding war stakes.
    “Doug Lyman is doing like an sci-fi action movie groundhog day with Tom Cruise”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:11:26 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Reservoir Dogs (1992): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Swingers (1996), which they directed: Reservoir Dogs ⇒ Swingers (the host's read). Swingers openly ripped off the opening credit strut and joked about everyone copying Tarantino.
    “The opening credit sequence is really fun to watch after swingers blatantly ripped it off”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:50:17 · Bill Simmons (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.

Top Gun: Maverick (2022): 1 line

  1. career (career) · through Edge of Tomorrow (2014), which they directed: Edge of Tomorrow ⇒ Top Gun: Maverick (the host's read). Edge cracked a new era of Cruise; Ethan Hunt and Maverick run on what he learned here.
    “That Maverick is really running on a lot of this.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:03:24 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Directing (20) everyone in directing

Photography (3) everyone in photography

What was said about them, by kind

career (5)

  1. career (career): Doug Liman → Swingers. Swingers and the OC pilot are the zeitgeist hits that earned Liman the benefit of the doubt.
    “swingers like launched a 1000 ships, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:44:50 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Doug Liman → The Bourne Identity. Bourne launched a lucrative franchise even though Liman did not make the sequels, which kept studios circling back to him.
    “Bourne identity launched like an incredibly lucrative franchise.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:44:54 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Doug Liman → Chaos Walking. After Edge, Liman never got another good one; Chaos Walking went through reshoots and recasting and came out years late.
    “chaos walking is going back for its 4th round of reshoots and recastings”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:54:29 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Doug Liman → American Made. American Made is the good, messy one Liman made right after Edge.
    “American made, which is good.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:55:22 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. career (career): Doug Liman → Edge of Tomorrow. Doug Liman's career is baffling: Go, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Bourne, Jumper, Edge of Tomorrow.
    “His career is insane.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:45:45 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

craft (3)

  1. craft (craft): Doug Liman → Jumper. Liman's tactile, cable-pulled approach on Jumper's teleports prefigures the practical exosuits in Edge, a classic Liman obsession that here paid off.
    “You're like classic Lyman mistake, except they solve it”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:02:53 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): Doug Liman → Dion Beebe. Liman often shoots his own films, but Dion Beebe shot Edge of Tomorrow.
    “He's shot a couple of his films, but no, Dion B. shot this.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:36:59 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
  3. craft (craft): Doug Liman → Swingers. Liman shot Fair Game, Swingers and Go himself.
    “He did shoot fair game and he shot swingers in go.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:37:05 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (people): Tom Cruise → Doug Liman. Cruise and Liman, McQuarrie and Kosinski became Cruise's guys: directors he can collaborate with rather than be pushed back by.
    “Cruz did Kacinski, Lyman and Macquarie became just his guys.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:23:45 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

verdict (2)

  1. verdict (verdict): Doug Liman → Road House. Road House is a Liman film the speaker despised.
    “Roadhouse, which I really despised.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:55:34 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (verdict): Doug Liman → The Instigators. The Instigators feels anonymous with none of the Liman crazy.
    “where is the Lyman crazy?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:55:50 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

what-if (2)

  1. what-if (what-if): Doug Liman → Tom Cruise. Liman and Cruise announced a film shot in space; it was canceled because Cruise didn't want to owe Trump a favor.
    “the space movie is finally like officially fucking canceled”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:37:47 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. what-if (what-if): Doug Liman → Tom Hardy. Liman was working with Hardy on a Mount Everest movie and training to climb.
    “Doug Lyman was working with Tom Hardy on a Mount Everest movie”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:38:21 · Ben Hosley (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Doug Liman: Hosts call the Liman method 'Limania': chaos production that sometimes comes out masterful, compared to a watchmaker tied upside-down in a crashing plane.
    “tied up a washmaker by his feet”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:53:54 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Doug Liman: Liman's agent told him 'you don't always have to be the bad guy'; he has a bedside-manner reputation, tolerated while the movies hit.
    “you don't always have to be the bad guy.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:54:44 · Ben Hosley (0.50 sure it was them)