Tyler Perry

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q686301: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Star Trek (2009); Gone Girl (2014); Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014); Vice (2018); Don't Look Up (2021); Alex Cross; Brain on Fire; Those Who Wish Me Dead. Count them as director (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 acted 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, within their own work

  1. people (led to casting) · through Gone Girl (2014), which they acted 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 acted 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)

Lolita (1962): 1 line

  1. theme (character type (Desi)) · through Gone Girl (2014), which they acted 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 acted 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)

Steven Soderbergh: 1 line

  1. unmapped (nod to a friend) · through Gone Girl (2014), which they acted 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 acted 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 acted 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)

Gone Girl (2014): 1 line, within their own work

  1. people (led to casting) · through Alex Cross, which they acted 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)

What the speakers said they did

Directing (1) everyone in directing

Acting (8) everyone in acting

Other (1) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

industry (1)

  1. industry (industry): Black Panther → Tyler Perry. Marvel shoots in Atlanta, where Tyler Perry built production infrastructure; Black Panther was largely built there.
    “He set up a whole production infrastructure in Atlanta, and now Marvel just runs.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 0:49:44 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (non-actor nominee comp): Tyler Perry → Dexter Gordon. A Perry nomination would have joined non-actor nominees like Dexter Gordon and Baryshnikov.
    “it would have been a nice, like, like, Dexter Gordon, Kail Barishnikov.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl with Esther Zuckerman (Ad-Free) · 2:15:23 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Tyler Perry: Fincher says Perry is one of the best living actors at listening on screen, and reasoned that a Glengarry-style Tanner Bolt would have made the audience hate him.
    “Tyler Perry is one of the best living actors at listening on screen, which is an interesting thing.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl with Esther Zuckerman (Ad-Free) · 2:12:06 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Tyler Perry: Perry, used to very few takes on his own sets, did 30 on his first Fincher scene; Affleck warned him afterward that 30 was the minimum.
    “He sits down and Affleck goes, by the way, minimum 30 take.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl with Esther Zuckerman (Ad-Free) · 2:19:39 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)