James Schamus

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q1354081: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as director. The films the hosts said they directed, which the two lists below run through too: Indignation. Count them as writer (3 films), producer (1 film), composer (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.

No line says they, or a film of theirs, drew on anything.

Drawn on by

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

No line says anything drew on them or a film of theirs.

What the speakers said they did

Writing (3) everyone in writing

Directing (1) everyone in directing

Producing (1) everyone in producing

Music (1) everyone in music

Other (1) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): James Schamus → Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Schamus wrote the lyrics to the closing-credits song of Crouching Tiger.
    “And our love, to quote the James Seamus lyrics from the closing, the closing song, is... Close like a drug, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:36:50 · unclear (a host or the guest) (0.30 sure it was them)

people (2)

  1. people (people): James Schamus → Ang Lee. Lee and Schamus are longtime producing and writing partners who know each other's strengths.
    “Like those guys are thickest thieves.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:36:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): James Schamus → The Ice Storm. Schamus (as named James Seamus) read the novel before publication and brought it to Lee.
    “he James Seamus read this book, like, I think even before it was published, the book's published in 94, and he brings it to Angley”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:20:59 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  1. what-if (what-if): James Schamus → The Incredible Hulk. Schamus's actual Hulk 2 pitch was about Native American reservations rather than Hulk fights; Zak Penn's conventional version is what got made.
    “He mostly just talked about Native American reservations and how that land is continually being exploited and how it's more trenchant than ever now.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:05:47 · Griffin or David (0.35 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

None.