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 cinematographer. The films the hosts said they shot, which the two lists below run through too: 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984); Universal Soldier: Regeneration (2009). Count them as director (8 films), writer (2 films), producer (1 film), 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.

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968): 5 lines

  1. lineage (sequel) · through 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984), which they shot: 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read). The film has a sequel, and Clarke wrote three sequel novels.
    “Obviously, the sequel exists.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:11:43 · Jordan Hoffman (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast) · through 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984), which they shot: 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read). 2010 tries to answer Kubrick's questions and is more loyal to Arthur C. Clarke's ideas.
    “it's much more... As I remember loyal to Arthur C. Clark's science fiction ideas”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:26:18 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (lineage) · through 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984), which they shot: 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read). 2010 was made because the novel sequel existed, a movie made just because they had to.
    “Because Arthur C. Clark had come out with a 2010 novel.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 2:54:20 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. lineage (sequel) · through 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984), which they shot: 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read). 2010 is the sequel to 2001; the speaker's reaction to the Kubrick film is the benchmark throughout.
    “And I said, oh, you know, 2010, the sequel to 2001 and they were like, the what?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:02:34 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. craft (borrowed music) · through 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984), which they shot: 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read). The only thing 2010 borrows from 2001, apart from plotting, is the music, including the Zarathustra drop at the end.
    “Yeah, is the music.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:07:40 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

2010: Odyssey Two (novel) (1982): 3 lines

  1. unmapped (changes from the book) · through 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984), which they shot: 2010: Odyssey Two (novel) ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the maker said so). Hyams demanded changes to play up US-Soviet politics, which the novel does not treat as a source of tension.
    “Two, there's changes I want to make to play up the politics of the movie because in the novel, the U.S. Soviet thing is not like a source of tension.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:21:36 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. theme (changed character nationality) · through 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984), which they shot: 2010: Odyssey Two (novel) ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the maker said so). Dr. Chandra is Indian in the book; the film made him American, per Balaban.
    “Bob Balaban said they changed his nationalities from Indian to American because they thought it would be confusing to have another nationality who've got the Russians and the Americans up there.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:28:11 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (adaptation) · through 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984), which they shot: 2010: Odyssey Two (novel) ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read). The film exists because Clarke published the sequel novel.
    “Arthur C. Clark, of course, did publish a sequel to 2001 called 2010.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:17:20 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977): 1 line

  1. unmapped (tip of the hat) · through 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984), which they shot: Close Encounters of the Third Kind ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read). Casting Balaban reads as a nod to Close Encounters; the speaker finds 2010 more in its shadow than 2001's.
    “And the Balaban casting feels like a real tip of the hat to that.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:28:46 · unknown (0.35 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)

Drawn on by

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

No line says anything drew on them or a film of theirs.

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)