Joseph Kosinski

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q2444076: 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: Miami Vice (1984); Oblivion (2013); Top Gun: Maverick (2022); F1 (2025); Gears of War commercial; Miami Vice 85.

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.

Edge of Tomorrow (2014): 1 line

  1. career (career) · through Top Gun: Maverick (2022), 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)

MTV: 1 line

  1. industry (industry) · through Miami Vice (1984), which they directed: MTV ⇒ Miami Vice (the host's read). The show began as the legendary 'MTV cops' pitch from an NBC executive.
    “he wrote a brainstorming memo that read MTV cops.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:13:46 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Martin Donnelly: 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through F1 (2025), which they directed: Martin Donnelly ⇒ F1 (the host's read). The crash that ends Sonny's career was based on Donnelly's real crash, and he advised on the film.
    “The crash that ended, Sonny's career was based on the actual crash of Martin Donnelly in the 1990s Spanish Grand Prix.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:25:28 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018): 1 line

  1. unmapped (enabling success) · through Top Gun: Maverick (2022), which they directed: Mission: Impossible – Fallout ⇒ Top Gun: Maverick (the host's read). Fallout's success is what lets Cruise do Top Gun: Maverick.
    “he's not in a position to do what he's doing now with Top Gun 2.”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:35:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Rocky IV (1985): 1 line

  1. theme (theme) · through F1 (2025), which they directed: Rocky IV ⇒ F1 (the host's read). Sonny and Kate's beer scene cuts into an old-school versus new-school training montage like Rocky IV.
    “Right into the Rocky 4 training montage”
    The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:48:10 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

The Color of Money (1986): 1 line

  1. lineage (legacy-sequel heirs) · through Top Gun: Maverick (2022), which they directed: The Color of Money ⇒ Top Gun: Maverick (the host's read). Gap-based legacy sequels like Top Gun Maverick, Tron Legacy and Blade Runner follow the template Color of Money invented, though in 1986 sequels were derided.
    “now we get more and more like your your Tron legacies and your Top Gun Mavericks, where it's just casually... 37, 40 years later”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Color of Money with Chris Ryan · 1:07:05 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Tony Scott: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · them, directly: Tony Scott ⇒ Joseph Kosinski (the host's read). Kosinski is called the heir to Tony Scott's way of filming machinery in motion.
    “he really is an inheritor of some of like his Tony Scott's like stylistic revelations.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:10:32 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Top Gun (1986): 1 line

  1. lineage (sequel verdict) · through Top Gun: Maverick (2022), which they directed: Top Gun ⇒ Top Gun: Maverick (the host's read). Chris says the sequel delivered and is better than the first, and Amanda agrees.
    “It's better than the 1st one”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:26:26 · Chris Ryan (0.80 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

ER (1994): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Miami Vice (1984), which they directed: Miami Vice ⇒ ER (the host's read). Miami Vice's influence made TV look like Mann movies; ER's steadicam is where that finishes.
    “An ER, you've got steady cam shots and that's when it's really done and dusted.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 1:07:11 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Directing (9) everyone in directing

Other (3) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (upcoming project): Brad Pitt → Joseph Kosinski. Pitt's fast-cars movie is Kosinski's F1 film, said to have script troubles.
    “The Kaczinski F1 movie?”
    The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:13:26 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

industry (1)

  1. industry (industry): Joseph Kosinski → Jerry Bruckheimer. Bruckheimer put Pitt and Kosinski together on a racing picture.
    “I'm getting Brad Pitt and Kazinski together and we're doing this racing picture.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:36:29 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (lineage): Joseph Kosinski → Tony Scott. Kosinski is called the heir to Tony Scott's way of filming machinery in motion.
    “he really is an inheritor of some of like his Tony Scott's like stylistic revelations.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:10:32 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

people (2)

  1. people (director): Miami Vice 85 → Joseph Kosinski. Sean anticipates Miami Vice 85 as a Joseph Kosinski fan; Dan Gilroy wrote the script.
    “I'm anticipating the film as a Joseph Kaczinski fan.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:16:07 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. people (director): Joseph Kosinski → Oblivion. Oblivion is where Kosinski first worked with Cruise and decided Cruise should always be flying a plane.
    “Tom Cruise should always be flying a plane.”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:26:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  1. what-if (what-if): Joseph Kosinski → Go Like Hell (unmade Pitt/Cruise/Kosinski project). Pitt was to be in a Ford versus Ferrari with Cruise and Kosinski, which collapsed.
    “Pitt was supposed to be in the original Ford versus Fryer with Tom Cruise”
    The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:23:07 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Joseph Kosinski: He is the only director with two same-year-release rewatchables, Top Gun Maverick and F1.
    “He's the only person who's ever made a movie that we've done the rewatchables the week it came out, right?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:40:58 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Joseph Kosinski: He directed the Gears of War 'Mad World' commercial.
    “It's called Mad World, the Gears of War commercial.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:41:34 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)