David F. Sandberg

Speaks on the shows. Their sketches and lines as a speaker.

Counted as director, the making department they hold the most credits in. The films the hosts said they directed, which the two lists below run through too: Shazam! (2019); Annabelle: Creation; Lights Out (2.5-minute short and feature). Count them as composer (0 films), craft (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.

Big (1988): 2 lines

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Shazam! (2019), which they directed: Big ⇒ Shazam! (the maker said so: Sandberg, in this interview, on the studio pitch). Sandberg says the studio pitched it to him as Big with superpowers.
    “it's basically uh, big, but with superpowers”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:14:30 · David F. Sandberg (0.95 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage) · through Shazam! (2019), which they directed: Big ⇒ Shazam! (the host's read). Fennessey calls Shazam! essentially Big as a superhero movie.
    “the movie is clearly pitched as sort of what if big but superhero”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:04:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991): 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Shazam! (2019), which they directed: Terminator 2: Judgment Day ⇒ Shazam! (the host's read). Fennessey asks whether an effects shot echoes the T-1000 reassembling in Terminator 2; Sandberg agrees he references other films.
    “this is basically that shot in Terminator 2, when the T 1000 gets, you know, comes back together and rises up”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:26:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

War of the Worlds (2005): 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Shazam! (2019), which they directed: War of the Worlds ⇒ Shazam! (the maker said so: Sandberg, in this interview). Sandberg wanted buildings to explode as in Spielberg's War of the Worlds when the tripods fire.
    “the buildings explode in War of the Worlds, the Spielbergs, you know, when the tripods shoot through the buildings”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:26:01 · David F. Sandberg (0.70 sure it was them)

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

Directing (3) everyone in directing

Craft (3) everyone in craft

Music (1) everyone in music

What was said about them, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career): David F. Sandberg → Alicia Vikander / Joel Kinnaman / Alexander Skarsgard. Sandberg contrasts himself with the Hollywood Swedes, who came up through Swedish film, with the community never inviting him.
    “they all came here, sort of the same path through Swedish movies”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:43:04 · David F. Sandberg (0.90 sure it was them)

craft (2)

  1. craft (craft): David F. Sandberg → Lights Out (2.5-minute short and feature). On his no-budget films Sandberg did everything himself, from the music to the visual effects and the editing.
    “I was the one doing everything, you know, from the music to the visual effects and the editing.”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:26:39 · David F. Sandberg (0.95 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): David F. Sandberg → Shazam!. Sandberg shot himself with action figures to show the previs team the action he wanted.
    “on this movie, I just shoot myself playing with action figures.”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:27:06 · David F. Sandberg (0.95 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about David F. Sandberg: As a kid in Sweden he loved a comic that crossed Superman and Spider-Man and never knew about the DC versus Marvel divide.
    “I had this comic book that I really loved that was Superman and Spider-Man fighting together.”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:14:02 · David F. Sandberg (0.95 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about David F. Sandberg: He remembers films so well that he knows songs by the movie they were in.
    “whenever I know a song, she's like, all right, what movie was it in?”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:25:35 · David F. Sandberg (0.95 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about David F. Sandberg: On the Hollywood Swedes' get-togethers.
    “but we've never been invited”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:42:58 · David F. Sandberg (0.90 sure it was them)