Franco Nero

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q311716: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to Die Hard 2, which ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey credits them on.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Django (1966); Die Hard 2 (1990); Django Unchained (2012); John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017); The Pope's Exorcist (2023).

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.

58 Minutes (1987): 1 line

  1. lineage (source material) · through Die Hard 2 (1990), which they acted in: 58 Minutes ⇒ Die Hard 2 (the host's read). The screenplay was adapted from Walter Wager's 1987 novel with a similar plot.
    “Screenplay was adapted from Walter Wagers.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:19:50 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)

Django (1966): 1 line, within their own work

  1. career (career) · through Django Unchained (2012), which they acted in: Django ⇒ Django Unchained (the host's read). Django is a better rewatch now because Tarantino later made Django Unchained.
    “Django is a better rewatch now because he made Django unchained.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:48:01 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Manuel Noriega: 1 line

  1. lineage (real-world inspiration) · through Die Hard 2 (1990), which they acted in: Manuel Noriega ⇒ Die Hard 2 (the maker said so: the screenwriter admitted it). The writer admitted the script grabbed smoke from Iran-Contra and Manuel Noriega.
    “there's definitely some Iran Contra, kind of, they're just grabbing smoke from that whole scandal and shoehorning into this with Manuel Noriega in real life.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:20:16 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

Django Unchained (2012): 1 line, within their own work

  1. career (career) · through Django (1966), which they acted in: Django ⇒ Django Unchained (the host's read). Django is a better rewatch now because Tarantino later made Django Unchained.
    “Django is a better rewatch now because he made Django unchained.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:48:01 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Positive K: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Die Hard 2 (1990), which they acted in: Die Hard 2 ⇒ Positive K (the host's read). Positive K's song 'I Got a Man' samples a line from Die Hard 2, so the song now brings the movie to mind.
    “And then that line got sampled on, I got a man, the positive K song. So now every time you hear that song, you hear that line from that movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:43:06 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Reservoir Dogs (1992): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Django (1966), which they acted in: Django ⇒ Reservoir Dogs (the host's read). Corbucci's 1966 Django is credited as an inspiration for the torture scene.
    “Sergio Corbucci's 1966 spaghetti western Django inspired the scene”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:47:43 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (6) everyone in acting

What was said about them, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (later career): Franco Nero → John Wick: Chapter 2. Nero later reappears in John Wick 2, and in Django Unchained because he played the original Django.
    “he shows up in Django and Chain because he played the original Django in the Italian movies.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:20:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (people): Django → Franco Nero. Tarantino has a relationship with Franco Nero, who played the original Django.
    “he has like a relationship with Franco Nero, who played Django?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:48:10 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

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