Michael B. Jordan

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q3308007: 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: Friday Night Lights (TV series) (2006); That Awkward Moment (2014); Creed (2015); Fantastic Four (2015); Black Panther (2018). Count them as director (0 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.

Friday Night Lights (2004 film) (2004): 4 lines

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Friday Night Lights (TV series) (2006), which they acted in: Friday Night Lights (2004 film) ⇒ Friday Night Lights (TV series) (the host's read). The TV show's excellence overshadowed the film, which has become underrated.
    “And then this one, which I think the TV show kind of overwhelmed the movie, and now the movie has become weirdly underrated.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:04:23 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage) · through Friday Night Lights (TV series) (2006), which they acted in: Friday Night Lights (2004 film) ⇒ Friday Night Lights (TV series) (the host's read). The halftime speech contains the ingredients later assembled into clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose.
    “the ingredients for clear eyes, full hearts can't lose are present here”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:45:50 · Mallory Rubin (0.80 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (lineage) · through Friday Night Lights (TV series) (2006), which they acted in: Friday Night Lights (2004 film) ⇒ Friday Night Lights (TV series) (the host's read). Character map from the 88 team and film to the TV show.
    “Winchell's mom, Sarah's grandma, Booby is smashed, Billingsley is Riggins, John is Buddy, Gary's Eric, Sharon's, Tammy, et cetera.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:15:37 · Mallory Rubin (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. lineage (lineage) · through Friday Night Lights (TV series) (2006), which they acted in: Friday Night Lights (2004 film) ⇒ Friday Night Lights (TV series) (the host's read). The bus-ride sequence before the Astrodome game influenced the TV series' team-bus tradition.
    “I feel like this is the TV series. I think was the most influenced by this sequence.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:42:24 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Rocky (1976): 2 lines

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Creed (2015), which they acted in: Rocky ⇒ Creed (the host's read). Merchant says Creed repeated Rocky's trick of making you care about the character before the fighting.
    “when they rebooted it with Creed, I think they did the same thing”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:46:07 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage) · through Creed (2015), which they acted in: Rocky ⇒ Creed (the host's read). Creed closely follows Rocky's structure, but opens with Creed obviously able to fight, unlike Rocky's grim opening bout.
    “in Creed, which very closely follows some of the structures of rocky.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:38:15 · Chris Ryan (0.45 sure it was them)

Captain America: The First Avenger (2011): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Black Panther (2018), which they acted in: Captain America: The First Avenger ⇒ Black Panther (the host's read). Vibranium, the shield metal, leads to Wakanda; adamantium is the X-Men analogue the MCU couldn't use.
    “So instead they use vibranium as their super metal.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:27:32 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Skyfall (2012): 1 line

  1. industry (industry) · through Creed (2015), which they acted in: Skyfall ⇒ Creed (the host's read). Bringing a prestige director to a franchise leads to Coogler doing Creed and Black Panther.
    “It leads to things like Ryan Kugler does Creed in Black Panther”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:45:54 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

The White Shadow: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Friday Night Lights (TV series) (2006), which they acted in: The White Shadow ⇒ Friday Night Lights (TV series) (the host's read). The White Shadow failed its graduate-and-replace third season; FNL had learned how to do it right.
    “they had enough evidence of how to not do this, that they did it correctly”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:28:22 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022): 2 lines

  1. theme (ancestral plane parallel) · through Black Panther (2018), which they acted in: Black Panther ⇒ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (the host's read). Van explains that in the first film T'Challa saw his father on the ancestral plane because he had questions for him, while Shuri saw Killmonger because she wanted revenge, the same motive Killmonger had.
    “Shuri did not want to be the Black Panther to protect Wakanda.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:32:14 · Van Lathan (0.85 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (CGI weakness) · through Black Panther (2018), which they acted in: Black Panther ⇒ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (the host's read). The first film's video-game-looking CGI showdown is doubled down on in the sequel, with flying robots and an aircraft-carrier fight.
    “You know, it just kind of looked like a video game a little bit.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:46:42 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Directing (1) everyone in directing

Acting (5) everyone in acting

Other (2) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career): Michael B. Jordan → Friday Night Lights (TV series). Jordan's best work is arguably the TV show, which he would agree is the apex.
    “I would think he would agree that the show is the apex.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:27:08 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)

what-if (2)

  1. what-if (what-if): Paradise Alley → Michael B. Jordan. Fennessey compares Stallone making a wrestling movie right after Rocky to Michael B. Jordan making a Junkyard Dog biopic now.
    “imagine Michael B. Jordan signing up for, you know, the junkyard dog biopic right now.”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:09:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. what-if (what-if): Ryan Coogler → Michael B. Jordan. Shoemaker says a Junkyard Dog biopic from Coogler and Jordan would be really cool.
    “Ryan Kugler and Michael B. Jordan doing that would be really cool.”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:19:56 · David Shoemaker (0.70 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

None.