John Badham

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q547485: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to WarGames, which Starman with Katey Rich 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: Saturday Night Fever (1977); Dracula (Badham) (1979); Blue Thunder (1983); WarGames (1983).

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.

Nik Cohn: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Saturday Night Fever (1977), which they directed: Nik Cohn ⇒ Saturday Night Fever (the host's read). The film comes from a 1976 New York magazine article, later admitted to be mostly fabricated.
    “this article written by Nick Cohen”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:17:23 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

Staying Alive (1983): 2 lines

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Saturday Night Fever (1977), which they directed: Saturday Night Fever ⇒ Staying Alive (the host's read). The sequel; the hosts agree it is a bad one but Simmons is glad it exists and thinks it did not ruin the original.
    “I'm glad it exists.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 1:17:52 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast) · through Saturday Night Fever (1977), which they directed: Saturday Night Fever ⇒ Staying Alive (the host's read). Staying Alive is so different that it did not ruin the original the way most sequels would.
    “it's just so different from Saturday Night Fever that it didn't ruin it in the same way most sequels would.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 1:18:06 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)

Airplane! (1980): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Saturday Night Fever (1977), which they directed: Saturday Night Fever ⇒ Airplane! (the host's read). Airplane! parodies this film's romance scene three years later with Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty.
    “The airplane parody scene.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:50:19 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.50 sure it was them)

Fighting with My Family (2019): 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Saturday Night Fever (1977), which they directed: Saturday Night Fever ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview). Merchant treats the wrestling matches like the dance numbers in Saturday Night Fever, each with different moves building to a big finale.
    “the way that the wrestling sequences are almost little dance numbers.”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:47:51 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)

Mad Magazine's Saturday Night Fever parody: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Saturday Night Fever (1977), which they directed: Saturday Night Fever ⇒ Mad Magazine's Saturday Night Fever parody (the host's read). Kimmel says he read the Mad parody before he saw the movie.
    “I think maybe I probably read the parody of the movie before I saw the movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:50:52 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.80 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Directing (8) everyone in directing

Other (1) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

industry (1)

  1. industry (industry): John Badham → John Avildsen. Stigwood replaced Avildsen with Badham and the film put Badham on the map.
    “replace him with John Badam, and this becomes the movie that puts John Badam on the map.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:57:33 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (people): John Badham → Blue Thunder. Badham directed number-two Blue Thunder, also Saturday Night Fever and WarGames.
    “It's from John Badam, the director of Saturday Night Fever and war games and...”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 2:12:32 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

unmapped (2)

  1. unmapped (left Starman for): John Badham → WarGames. Badham was first attached to Starman, left after E.T., and made WarGames instead.
    “and he does war games instead.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Starman with Katey Rich · 0:26:06 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (left because of): John Badham → E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. When E.T. blew up Badham quit rather than follow it.
    “that when ET comes out and blows up, Badham quits because he's just like, I don't want to have to follow that.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Starman with Katey Rich · 0:26:13 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about John Badham: Director kept the bridge fall from Donna Pescow and used a Steadicam, among the first films to do so.
    “this was one of the 1st films to utilize a steady cam.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 1:05:22 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them)