Eric Roth

Made films the shows talk about.

Counted as other. The films the hosts said they were tied to, which the two lists below run through too: The Butterfly Effect (2004); Gone Girl (2014). Count them as writer (6 films), producer (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.

A Simple Plan (1998): 1 line

  1. lineage (adaptation model) · through Gone Girl (2014), which they were tied to as named as a Fincher writer he did not bring in: A Simple Plan ⇒ Gone Girl (the maker said so). Flynn used A Simple Plan as her model for adapting her own novel, then worried she could not match it.
    “And she said, so I tried to use that as a model and then I freaked myself out because I was like, well, this is too good. I won't do this well.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl with Esther Zuckerman (Ad-Free) · 0:36:35 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Alex Cross: 1 line

  1. people (led to casting) · through Gone Girl (2014), which they were tied to as named as a Fincher writer he did not bring in: Alex Cross ⇒ Gone Girl (the host's read). Perry's turn in Alex Cross is given as the reason Fincher cast him as Tanner Bolt.
    “Well, that's why Fisher cast him in this.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl with Esther Zuckerman (Ad-Free) · 2:09:35 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Gone Girl (Gillian Flynn novel): 1 line

  1. lineage (adaptation) · through Gone Girl (2014), which they were tied to as named as a Fincher writer he did not bring in: Gone Girl (Gillian Flynn novel) ⇒ Gone Girl (the host's read). The film adapts Flynn's novel, and the first-person diary trickery was the open question about how it would work on screen.
    “Because it is such like a little fun piece of 1st person narration trickery.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl with Esther Zuckerman (Ad-Free) · 0:34:23 · Esther Zuckerman (0.70 sure it was them)

Jack Fincher: 1 line

  1. unmapped (script rewrite) · them, directly: Jack Fincher ⇒ Eric Roth (the host's read). The speaker says Roth rewrote Jack Fincher's script into the version that was made, adding nuance.
    “he came in and put a lot more nuance into it, I think.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:46:43 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)

Lolita (1962): 1 line

  1. theme (character type (Desi)) · through Gone Girl (2014), which they were tied to as named as a Fincher writer he did not bring in: Lolita ⇒ Gone Girl (the maker said so: In the commentary). On the commentary Fincher says he wanted a Claire Quilty type for Desi and found it in Neil Patrick Harris.
    “Fincher said he wanted a Claire quilty type and he's like, what's a modern Claire quilty type?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl with Esther Zuckerman (Ad-Free) · 2:18:15 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Reese Witherspoon: 1 line

  1. lineage (originated the project) · through Gone Girl (2014), which they were tied to as named as a Fincher writer he did not bring in: Reese Witherspoon ⇒ Gone Girl (the host's read). Witherspoon took the book and had the idea of bringing Fincher on board.
    “takes this book, has the smart idea, bring Fincher on board.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl with Esther Zuckerman (Ad-Free) · 0:20:39 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Robin Swicord: 1 line

  1. unmapped (rewrite) · them, directly: Robin Swicord ⇒ Eric Roth (the host's read). Roth was the first to start over after Swicord's draft; everyone else built on it.
    “Eric Roth is the 1st person post-Swyker to do like a full page one, go back to the adaptation start over, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:41:16 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Sliding Doors: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Butterfly Effect (2004), which they were tied to as hypothetical writer: Sliding Doors ⇒ The Butterfly Effect (the host's read). The Butterfly Effect is basically a science-fiction version of Sliding Doors.
    “a science fiction version of sliding doors is a great idea for a movie”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:36:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

Steven Soderbergh: 1 line

  1. unmapped (nod to a friend) · through Gone Girl (2014), which they were tied to as named as a Fincher writer he did not bring in: Steven Soderbergh ⇒ Gone Girl (the maker said so). Fincher put Soderbergh's Singani 63 in the film as a nod to his buddy and let him pick the scene.
    “Fincher wanted to put it in the movie, as a nod to his buddy, Sudi, and said, uh, you can pick the scene where you want it applied.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl with Esther Zuckerman (Ad-Free) · 2:25:53 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011): 1 line

  1. people (casting approach) · through Gone Girl (2014), which they were tied to as named as a Fincher writer he did not bring in: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ⇒ Gone Girl (the host's read). The speaker thinks Fincher's exhaustive casting search on Dragon Tattoo informed how he cast Amy with someone new to the audience.
    “that exhaustive casting search, which I do think informs the way he approaches Amy going into this movie as well”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl with Esther Zuckerman (Ad-Free) · 0:55:22 · 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.

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016): 1 line

  1. people (led to casting) · through Gone Girl (2014), which they were tied to as named as a Fincher writer he did not bring in: Gone Girl ⇒ Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (the host's read). While making Gone Girl, Affleck reportedly joked to his agent that he needed a heroic-chin movie after the evil-chin one.
    “the joke was the chin things in the script, he calls up his agent, while making Gone Girl, and says, like, I'm doing the evil chin movie now, you got to find me a heroic chin movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl with Esther Zuckerman (Ad-Free) · 1:06:28 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

The Great Gatsby (2013): 1 line

  1. unmapped (tribute) · them, directly: Eric Roth ⇒ The Great Gatsby (the host's read). Roth named the love interest Daisy as a tribute to Gatsby.
    “He calls the love interest daisy as a tribute to the Great Gatsby.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:42:11 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Writing (9) everyone in writing

Other (2) everyone in other

Producing (1) everyone in producing

What was said about them, by kind

people (2)

  1. people (people): Eric Roth → Forrest Gump. Roth is famed for clarifying a movie's problem inside one scene, as in Forrest Gump.
    “Eric Roth, who is a co-writer of this movie, is famed for his ability to clarify the problem of a movie inside of one scene.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:34:49 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. people (script rewritten by the director): Eric Roth → Killers of the Flower Moon. Roth's strict adaptation was torn up and rewritten by Scorsese himself, which Griffin compares to Mank.
    “It's like Scorsese Adam come in, he writes this script.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:47:31 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

unmapped (3)

  1. unmapped (script rewrite): Jack Fincher → Eric Roth. The speaker says Roth rewrote Jack Fincher's script into the version that was made, adding nuance.
    “he came in and put a lot more nuance into it, I think.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:46:43 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (rewrite): Robin Swicord → Eric Roth. Roth was the first to start over after Swicord's draft; everyone else built on it.
    “Eric Roth is the 1st person post-Swyker to do like a full page one, go back to the adaptation start over, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:41:16 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (tribute): Eric Roth → The Great Gatsby. Roth named the love interest Daisy as a tribute to Gatsby.
    “He calls the love interest daisy as a tribute to the Great Gatsby.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:42:11 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  1. what-if (what-if): The Butterfly Effect → Eric Roth. Eric Roth writing it would make it a mainstream crowd-pleasing sci-fi movie.
    “what if Eric Roth wrote this movie”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:36:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Eric Roth: Running joke: a man arrives every five minutes with a bag of Gump money for Eric Roth.
    “Every 5 minutes in Eric's Roth life, and a man appears with a bag filled with gump money and just hands it over.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:47:20 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Eric Roth: A running joke: Roth should open a soup restaurant called Eric Broth.
    “Eric Roth should open a soup restaurant called Eric Broth.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:26:53 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)