Reese Witherspoon

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q44063: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as other. The films the hosts said they were tied to, which the two lists below run through too: Fight Club (1999); Gone Girl (2014). Count them as actor (17 films), producer (3 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.

Seven (1995): 2 lines

  1. career (career) · through Fight Club (1999), which they were tied to as Fox's pushed choice for Marla; not cast: Seven ⇒ Fight Club (the host's read). Without Se7en's power Fincher does not get to do The Game and Fight Club his way.
    “I think without this movie, he doesn't go on this run”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:27:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  2. career (career lever) · through Fight Club (1999), which they were tied to as Fox's pushed choice for Marla; not cast: Seven ⇒ Fight Club (the host's read). Se7en's success is what let Fincher make the seemingly impossible Fight Club.
    “But the fight club is him more being like, okay, guys, I know this seems impossible, but I made seven.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 1:05:55 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

A Simple Plan (1998): 1 line

  1. lineage (adaptation model) · through Gone Girl (2014), which they were tied to as originally wanted to star as Amy; Fincher said no: 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 originally wanted to star as Amy; Fincher said no: 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)

Big Little Lies (2017): 1 line

  1. industry (industry) · them, directly: Big Little Lies ⇒ Reese Witherspoon (the host's read). Kidman and Witherspoon doing prestige TV turned the tide for movie stars on television and started the book-adaptation wave.
    “It's also, it starts the whole Reese Witherspoon thing, the book adaptation thing.”
    The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:53:34 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

Chuck Palahniuk: 1 line

  1. lineage (adaptation) · through Fight Club (1999), which they were tied to as Fox's pushed choice for Marla; not cast: Chuck Palahniuk ⇒ Fight Club (the host's read). The film adapts Palahniuk's novel; the speaker says the screenplay cribs straight from the book.
    “obviously the movie is, the book is very, he's cribbing right from the book.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:13:14 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Douglas Coupland: 1 line

  1. lineage (literary lineage) · through Fight Club (1999), which they were tied to as Fox's pushed choice for Marla; not cast: Douglas Coupland ⇒ Fight Club (the host's read). The speaker says the early car-recall section is right out of Coupland and Gen X writing.
    “It's right out of like Douglas Copeland or whatever, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:59:38 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Gone Girl (Gillian Flynn novel): 1 line

  1. lineage (adaptation) · through Gone Girl (2014), which they were tied to as originally wanted to star as Amy; Fincher said no: 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)

Leslie Dixon: 1 line

  1. unmapped (brought the manuscript to) · them, directly: Leslie Dixon ⇒ Reese Witherspoon (the host's read). Dixon read the manuscript and delivered it to Witherspoon.
    “reads the manuscript, takes it right to the top of Sunshine Mountain and delivers it to Reese Witherspoon.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl with Esther Zuckerman (Ad-Free) · 0:35:08 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Lolita (1962): 1 line

  1. theme (character type (Desi)) · through Gone Girl (2014), which they were tied to as originally wanted to star as Amy; Fincher said no: 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, within their own work

  1. lineage (originated the project) · through Gone Girl (2014), which they were tied to as originally wanted to star as Amy; Fincher said no: 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 were tied to as originally wanted to star as Amy; Fincher said no: 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 originally wanted to star as Amy; Fincher said no: 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.

Panic Room (2002): 3 lines

  1. career (career) · through Fight Club (1999), which they were tied to as Fox's pushed choice for Marla; not cast: Fight Club ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). Panic Room read as a small antidote to the response to Fight Club.
    “This seemed like a little bit of an antidote to that because what's panic room about.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:19:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft) · through Fight Club (1999), which they were tied to as Fox's pushed choice for Marla; not cast: Fight Club ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). The inside-the-house camera moves Fincher started in Fight Club are fully developed in Panic Room.
    “And there's a lot of like stuff that he had started to do a little bit with Fight Club is like really like fleshed out in panic room”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:20:53 · Chris Ryan (0.45 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (response to) · through Fight Club (1999), which they were tied to as Fox's pushed choice for Marla; not cast: Fight Club ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). A host says Panic Room is a conscious response to Fight Club, which flopped and tried to be about everything.
    “Yes. And I feel like it's a very conscious response to fight club.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:24:52 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

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

  1. people (led to casting) · through Gone Girl (2014), which they were tied to as originally wanted to star as Amy; Fincher said no: 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)

Deadpool 2 (2018): 1 line

  1. unmapped (joke template) · through Fight Club (1999), which they were tied to as Fox's pushed choice for Marla; not cast: Fight Club ⇒ Deadpool 2 (the host's read). A joke that Fight Club is the template Deadpool perfected.
    “I walked so that Deadpool could run.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:59:03 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

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

  1. lineage (originated the project) · them, directly: 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)

What the speakers said they did

Producing (3) everyone in producing

Acting (20) everyone in acting

Other (3) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

industry (1)

  1. industry (industry): Big Little Lies → Reese Witherspoon. Kidman and Witherspoon doing prestige TV turned the tide for movie stars on television and started the book-adaptation wave.
    “It's also, it starts the whole Reese Witherspoon thing, the book adaptation thing.”
    The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:53:34 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (originated the project): Reese Witherspoon → Gone Girl. 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)

people (1)

  1. people (casting): Reese Witherspoon → Gone Girl. Fincher also passed on Witherspoon for Gone Girl, as he had for Fight Club.
    “And then, of course, he fucks her out of gone girl as well.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:42:41 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (brought the manuscript to): Leslie Dixon → Reese Witherspoon. Dixon read the manuscript and delivered it to Witherspoon.
    “reads the manuscript, takes it right to the top of Sunshine Mountain and delivers it to Reese Witherspoon.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl with Esther Zuckerman (Ad-Free) · 0:35:08 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  1. what-if (what-if casting): Reese Witherspoon → Gone Girl. Fincher told Witherspoon at once that she would not star; the speakers debate whether she would have worked as Amy.
    “Fincher immediately says, by the way, you're not starting in this.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl with Esther Zuckerman (Ad-Free) · 0:20:42 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Reese Witherspoon: Running bit: Witherspoon's invented Quibi nature show 'Fierce Queens' with commentary like 'you go, girl boss cheetah'.
    “had a Quibby show that I love called Fierce Queens.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl with Esther Zuckerman (Ad-Free) · 0:16:43 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)