Evan Goldberg

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q3061320: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as producer. The films the hosts said they produced, which the two lists below run through too: Knocked Up (2007). Count them as director (2 films), writer (2 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.

Charlie Kaufman: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · them, directly: Charlie Kaufman ⇒ Evan Goldberg (the maker said so: came up in the research). Goldberg is cited as the source of the Kaufman remark.
    “Evan Goldberg, who was the guy who directed this with Rogan.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:03:13 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

Mean Girls (2004): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Knocked Up (2007), which they produced: Mean Girls ⇒ Knocked Up (the host's read). Bill thinks Mean Girls may have been the first to figure out 'more funny than romantic, but also having the romance'.
    “I feel like mean girls might have been the 1st one that figured out.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:03:37 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them)

Starting Over: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Knocked Up (2007), which they produced: Starting Over ⇒ Knocked Up (the host's read). Bill offers Starting Over (Burt Reynolds, a love triangle in Boston) as an early prototype of Apatow movies.
    “It's got, it feels like a very early prototype of these Apatow movies.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:05:59 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them)

When Harry Met Sally (1989): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Knocked Up (2007), which they produced: When Harry Met Sally ⇒ Knocked Up (the host's read). Bill dates the rom-com boom as starting with When Harry Met Sally and running to the mid 2000s, with Knocked Up on the other side of the shift.
    “It starts with when Harry Met Sally.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:03:12 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

This Is 40: 2 lines

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Knocked Up (2007), which they produced: Knocked Up ⇒ This Is 40 (the host's read). Bill says halfway through the movie it becomes a Rudd and Mann movie, which becomes This Is 40.
    “the movie pretty much becomes like a Rudd and man movie by the end of it.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:12:53 · Bill Simmons (0.75 sure it was them)
  2. programming (programming) · through Knocked Up (2007), which they produced: Knocked Up ⇒ This Is 40 (the host's read). Bill says the sequel is a more complicated movie than Knocked Up; Juliet says she doesn't like it as much.
    “This is 40, that it was looming, which I think is a more complicated movie than this movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:44:31 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them)

Bridesmaids (2011): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Knocked Up (2007), which they produced: Knocked Up ⇒ Bridesmaids (the host's read). Bill frames Bridesmaids as Apatow's answer to the criticism of the female lead in Knocked Up.
    “And bridesmaids is the mic trap, right?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:11:00 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Directing (2) everyone in directing

Writing (2) everyone in writing

Producing (1) everyone in producing

What was said about them, by kind

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (lineage): Evan Goldberg → Charlie Kaufman. Goldberg is cited as the source of the Kaufman remark.
    “Evan Goldberg, who was the guy who directed this with Rogan.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:03:13 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (people): Seth Rogen → Evan Goldberg. Seth and Evan are good screenwriters who add heart to ridiculous premises.
    “No matter how ridiculous and like brazen the movies are, they do a great job of like actually incorporating some heart to it.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:15:51 · Chris Ryan (0.35 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (co-directors): Seth Rogen → Evan Goldberg. Rogen and Goldberg directed The Interview together.
    “All right, Rogan directed it with Goldberg.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:38:56 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Evan Goldberg: Goal on set was to get cast to say 'no, I can't do that'; only Franco and Rogen never broke. About 85% improvised.
    “the only people who never broke were Franco and Rogan.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:14:26 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)