Peter Hyams

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q458766: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to 2010: The Year We Make Contact, 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 (8 films), writer (2 films), producer (1 film), cinematographer (2 films), 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.

It Happened One Night (1934): 2 lines

  1. craft (genre / structure) · through Starman (1984), which they were tied to as nearly directed: 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 nearly directed: 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 nearly directed: 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 nearly directed: 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)

T.R. Baskin (1971): 1 line

  1. career (career turning point) · them, directly: T.R. Baskin ⇒ Peter Hyams (the maker said so). Hyams sold the T.R. Baskin script to Paramount and, watching Herbert Ross direct it, reportedly decided never to write for anyone else again.
    “Herbert Ross directs it and Peter Heim says, I knew I never wanted to write for anyone else again.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:27:05 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Two for the Road (1967): 1 line

  1. craft (genre / structure) · through Starman (1984), which they were tied to as nearly directed: 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 nearly directed: 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 nearly directed: 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 nearly directed: 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 nearly directed: 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 nearly directed: 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 (13) everyone in directing

Writing (2) everyone in writing

Photography (2) everyone in photography

Producing (1) everyone in producing

Craft (1) everyone in craft

Other (1) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career turning point): T.R. Baskin → Peter Hyams. Hyams sold the T.R. Baskin script to Paramount and, watching Herbert Ross direct it, reportedly decided never to write for anyone else again.
    “Herbert Ross directs it and Peter Heim says, I knew I never wanted to write for anyone else again.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:27:05 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

people (3)

  1. people (director): Peter Hyams → 2010: The Year We Make Contact. Hyams directed 2010 and was another director who almost made Starman.
    “Peter Heim's another person who almost directed Starman.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Starman with Katey Rich · 2:22:24 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. people (director-DP-writer-producer): Peter Hyams → 2010: The Year We Make Contact. Hyams wrote, produced, shot, and directed 2010, an unusual degree of control.
    “Also known as 2010 is a 1984 science fiction film, written, produced, shot, and directed by Peter Himes.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:10:52 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  3. people (cinematographer credit): Peter Hyams → Universal Soldier: Regeneration. Hyams shoots his son John Hyams's films too, including Regeneration.
    “I believe he shoots John Himes' films as well.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:11:25 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

unmapped (3)

  1. unmapped (father and son filmmakers): Peter Hyams → John Hyams. The younger Hyams is described as a favorite current action director and Peter's son; Peter shot his film.
    “And his other son, my favorite current working action filmmakers.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:07:13 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (blessing and advice): Stanley Kubrick → Peter Hyams. Kubrick approved the sequel and told Hyams to make it his own film, not Kubrick's.
    “His big piece of advice was just make it your own film.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:22:16 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (co-writing): Arthur C. Clarke → Peter Hyams. Clarke helped Hyams write the screenplay over eight months.
    “But, you know, they did 8 months of work together.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:27:41 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Peter Hyams: 2010 appears to be Hyams's first camera credit; from here on he shoots all his own films.
    “His 1st camera credit of anytime any types is seemingly on this movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:12:26 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Peter Hyams: Peeper (1975) is an early Michael Caine detective comedy; the tagline and logo (peeping over the title) amuse the hosts.
    “In fact, anything was okay with this peeper on the case because he wouldn't know who done it even if he did it himself.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:20:24 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Peter Hyams: Capricorn One, an earlier Hyams film, is about a staged Mars landing.
    “which is about a staged Mars landing.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:20:46 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)