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 other. The films the hosts said they were tied to, which the two lists below run through too: Starman (1984). Count them as director (4 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.

It Happened One Night (1934): 2 lines

  1. craft (genre / structure) · through Starman (1984), which they were tied to as attached director, quit after E.T.: It Happened One Night ⇒ Starman (the host's read). Carpenter wanted a road movie of two people in a car getting to know each other, in the mold of It Happened One Night.
    “I want to make it happens one night.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Starman with Katey Rich · 1:22:08 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (homage) · through Starman (1984), which they were tied to as attached director, quit after E.T.: It Happened One Night ⇒ Starman (the host's read). The hay-bale love scene in an empty train car is called a likely conscious homage to It Happened One Night.
    “So it's a, maybe it's an homage.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Starman with Katey Rich · 1:27:07 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

An American Werewolf in London (1981): 1 line

  1. lineage (effects lineage) · through Starman (1984), which they were tied to as attached director, quit after E.T.: An American Werewolf in London ⇒ Starman (the host's read). The transformation sequence is indebted to American Werewolf's practical, show-it-all body effects.
    “Yes, which is very like American werewolf in London, where the body is stretching out.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Starman with Katey Rich · 1:20:41 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982): 1 line

  1. industry (studio rivalry / shadow) · through Starman (1984), which they were tied to as attached director, quit after E.T.: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial ⇒ Starman (the host's read). Columbia chose Starman over Night Skies, which Universal turned into E.T., so Starman carried the stigma of the one that got away and then looked like a ripoff.
    “Uh, so they let go of night skies and let Universal acquire and turnaround.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Starman with Katey Rich · 0:24:25 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Two for the Road (1967): 1 line

  1. craft (genre / structure) · through Starman (1984), which they were tied to as attached director, quit after E.T.: Two for the Road ⇒ Starman (the host's read). Carpenter reportedly wanted to make something like Two for the Road.
    “I want to make like 2 for the road.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Starman with Katey Rich · 1:22:06 · Griffin Newman (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.

Forrest Gump (1994): 1 line

  1. people (performance lineage) · through Starman (1984), which they were tied to as attached director, quit after E.T.: Starman ⇒ Forrest Gump (the host's read). Bridges' hat, check shirt, strange speech and not-quite-a-person quality read as a proto-Forrest Gump.
    “there's like a proto-Forrest Gump vibe in this performance in the hat and in the check shirt”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Starman with Katey Rich · 1:57:23 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

John from Cincinnati (2007): 1 line

  1. theme (premise) · through Starman (1984), which they were tied to as attached director, quit after E.T.: Starman ⇒ John from Cincinnati (the host's read). A mysterious odd visitor who solves everyone's problems and parrots dialogue; John from Cincinnati owes a lot to Starman.
    “He comes and visits, and he's mysterious, and he's weird, and he solves everybody's problem.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Starman with Katey Rich · 2:11:38 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Midnight Special (2016): 1 line

  1. verdict (same story, better version) · through Starman (1984), which they were tied to as attached director, quit after E.T.: Starman ⇒ Midnight Special (the host's read). Midnight Special is called Spielbergian but really Starman-like; its Adam Driver agent does the benevolent-government-agent role better than Starman's.
    “I'm like, God, that's so Starman.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Starman with Katey Rich · 2:02:29 · Katey Rich (0.45 sure it was them)

Sean Levy: 1 line

  1. lineage (remake plan) · through Starman (1984), which they were tied to as attached director, quit after E.T.: Starman ⇒ Sean Levy (the host's read). Levy announced a 2016 remake with Michael Douglas on board.
    “I learned from Wikipedia that in 2016, Sean Levy was planning to direct and produce a remake of Starman.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Starman with Katey Rich · 2:13:16 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Starman (1986): 1 line

  1. lineage (sequel / spin-off) · through Starman (1984), which they were tied to as attached director, quit after E.T.: Starman ⇒ Starman (the host's read). The 1986 show is set 15 years later, about his son, with a recast Starman.
    “is set 15 years in the future because it's about his son.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Starman with Katey Rich · 2:08:52 · Griffin Newman (0.40 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)