Morgan Freeman

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q48337: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to Seven, which ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan credits them on.

Counted as producer, the making department they hold the most credits in. The films the hosts said they produced, which the two lists below run through too: Rendezvous with Rama (unmade film); Rendezvous with Rama (unmade). Count them as actor (17 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.

Into Thin Air (book): 1 line

  1. unmapped (template) · through Rendezvous with Rama (unmade), which they produced: Into Thin Air (book) ⇒ Rendezvous with Rama (unmade) (the maker said so: an interview from '07 or '08 the dossier pulls from). Fincher said he wanted to make Rama like Into Thin Air, with technical detail.
    “He said he wanted to do it like John Krakowers into thin air.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free) · 0:37:19 · Griffin Newman (0.50 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

Producing (2) everyone in producing

Acting (24) everyone in acting

Other (3) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (3)

  1. career (career): Morgan Freeman → Unforgiven. Freeman's 1992 to 1995 run of Unforgiven, Outbreak, Shawshank, Se7en is a strong quartet with Outbreak the weak link.
    “Outbreak is obviously the week, the weak link, but the other 3 are Hall of Famers.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:31:21 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Morgan Freeman → Driving Miss Daisy. Freeman's 1989 trio of Glory, Driving Miss Daisy and Lean on Me made him a star after Street Smart.
    “Glory driving Miss Daisy and lean on me.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:31:59 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Morgan Freeman → Eyewitness. Before Street Smart Freeman was the seventh-billed police officer type, as in Eyewitness.
    “Freeman's in it.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:32:57 · Bill Simmons (0.45 sure it was them)

industry (1)

  1. industry (industry): Morgan Freeman → Deep Impact. After Shawshank and Se7en Freeman had the juice to take shitty parts like Deep Impact for giant paychecks.
    “he does this movie, and both of them are smashed successes, and that paves the way for him to be able to take shitty parts and deep impact and stuff like that”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:09:49 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (rights holder brought him in): Morgan Freeman → David Fincher. Freeman held the Rama rights and got Fincher involved.
    “Freeman had the rights got Fincher involved.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:27:53 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  1. what-if (what-if): Morgan Freeman → This Is the End. Original ending had Morgan Freeman as God in heaven; he declined.
    “They go to heaven and they're greeted by Morgan Freeman.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:51:35 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Morgan Freeman: Freeman asked to cut a large share of his own dialogue, preferring to play it with a look.
    “And Morgan Freeman comes in and he's like cut like 40% of my dialogue.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 0:41:47 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (reading the dossier) (0.40 sure it was them)