Dino De Laurentiis

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q296796: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

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: Barbarella (1968); Serpico (1973); King Kong (1976); Conan the Barbarian (1982); Dune (1984).

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.

Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977): 2 lines

  1. programming (programming) · through Dune (1984), which they produced: Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope ⇒ Dune (the host's read). Dune was positioned and released as the studio's answer to Star Wars, the next big space epic.
    “Uh, this movie is released with the energy of, here you go, here's the new Star Wars.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 0:22:17 · John Hodgman (0.85 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (tentpole hope) · through Dune (1984), which they produced: Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope ⇒ Dune (the host's read). Dune was meant to be the new Star Wars franchise, Lynch writing the sequel, coloring books on shelves.
    “I thought it was going to be the Star Wars.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Starman with Katey Rich · 2:18:09 · David Sims (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.

Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977): 2 lines

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Dune (1984), which they produced: Dune ⇒ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (the host's read). The Dune book's messaging is credited as one of the things that inspired Star Wars.
    “And not only that, the messaging of this is one of the things that inspired Star Wars.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 0:22:22 · John Hodgman (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. theme (theme) · through Dune (1984), which they produced: Dune ⇒ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (the host's read). Dune's Fremen/revolution material is the denser source that Star Wars abstracts; the Force is Dune without the drugs.
    “the Force in Star Wars is like doom without the drugs.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 1:17:01 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)

Al Pacino: 1 line

  1. unmapped (real-life model) · them, directly: Dino De Laurentiis ⇒ Al Pacino (the host's read). Pacino's Marvin Schwarz is a version of De Laurentiis who lured actors to Italian films.
    “he's basically playing a version of Dino DeLorentis, very famous Hollywood producer who started out in Spaghetti Westerns”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:21:16 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

David Lowery: 1 line

  1. people (people) · through Dune (1984), which they produced: Dune ⇒ David Lowery (the maker said so: David Lowery's episode later in the series). A later series guest, David Lowery, called Dune a very big film for him as a child.
    “we have an episode coming later in the series with David Lowry, who talked about Dune being a very big film for him”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 2:33:25 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Krull (1983): 1 line

  1. theme (genre wave) · through Conan the Barbarian (1982), which they produced: Conan the Barbarian ⇒ Krull (the host's read). The 80s high-fantasy boom was mostly kicked off by Conan the Barbarian's success.
    “mostly, you know, kicked off by the success of Conan the Barbarian, but there was just been so many films in that period of time”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 1:16:14 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Producing (5) everyone in producing

Other (2) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

industry (4)

  1. industry (industry): Dino De Laurentiis → Conan the Barbarian. Conan had already happened by the time of Dune.
    “Conan had happened at this point, Barbarellas.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 1:10:31 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. industry (industry): Dino De Laurentiis → King Kong. King Kong is cited as one of Dino's big genre films.
    “Um, King Kong, the, uh, you know, the, that's a big one.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 1:10:41 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. industry (industry): Dino De Laurentiis → Barbarella. Dino's producing history includes Barbarella, big genre films, Conan.
    “But if I'm David Lynch and I see these 2 charismatic Italian people, one of whom is, you know, made Barbarella.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 1:11:15 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. industry (industry): Dino De Laurentiis → Serpico. Dino also produced Serpico, part of a strange range.
    “Just like he did Serpico.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 1:11:28 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (people): Dino De Laurentiis → Federico Fellini. Raffaella says her father thought Lynch was as good as Fellini.
    “My father loved directors and he thought David was as good as Fellini, she says.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 1:08:14 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (real-life model): Al Pacino → Dino De Laurentiis. Pacino's Marvin Schwarz is a version of De Laurentiis who lured actors to Italian films.
    “he's basically playing a version of Dino DeLorentis, very famous Hollywood producer who started out in Spaghetti Westerns”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:21:16 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

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