Peter Berg

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q183141: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to Collateral, the subject film of The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame.

Counted as other. The films the hosts said they were tied to, which the two lists below run through too: Dune (1984); Call of Duty (film). Count them as director (10 films), actor (3 films), producer (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.

Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977): 2 lines

  1. programming (programming) · through Dune (1984), which they were tied to as director attached: Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope ⇒ Dune (the host's read). Dune was positioned and released as the studio's answer to Star Wars, the next big space epic.
    “Uh, this movie is released with the energy of, here you go, here's the new Star Wars.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 0:22:17 · John Hodgman (0.85 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (tentpole hope) · through Dune (1984), which they were tied to as director attached: Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope ⇒ Dune (the host's read). Dune was meant to be the new Star Wars franchise, Lynch writing the sequel, coloring books on shelves.
    “I thought it was going to be the Star Wars.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Starman with Katey Rich · 2:18:09 · David Sims (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.

Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977): 2 lines

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Dune (1984), which they were tied to as director attached: Dune ⇒ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (the host's read). The Dune book's messaging is credited as one of the things that inspired Star Wars.
    “And not only that, the messaging of this is one of the things that inspired Star Wars.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 0:22:22 · John Hodgman (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. theme (theme) · through Dune (1984), which they were tied to as director attached: Dune ⇒ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (the host's read). Dune's Fremen/revolution material is the denser source that Star Wars abstracts; the Force is Dune without the drugs.
    “the Force in Star Wars is like doom without the drugs.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 1:17:01 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)

David Lowery: 1 line

  1. people (people) · through Dune (1984), which they were tied to as director attached: Dune ⇒ David Lowery (the maker said so: David Lowery's episode later in the series). A later series guest, David Lowery, called Dune a very big film for him as a child.
    “we have an episode coming later in the series with David Lowry, who talked about Dune being a very big film for him”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 2:33:25 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Directing (11) everyone in directing

Acting (3) everyone in acting

Other (2) everyone in other

Producing (1) everyone in producing

What was said about them, by kind

career (4)

  1. career (career): Peter Berg → Friday Night Lights. Berg was positioned as a serious director after Friday Night Lights.
    “I feel like particularly after Friday night lights, he was positioned as like, this guy might be a serious director in the making.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 1:23:06 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Peter Berg → Hancock. Hodgman guesses Berg was working on Hancock at the time of their flight.
    “And I believe in the context of our conversation, he was probably working on Hancock at that time.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 1:23:11 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Peter Berg → Late for Dinner. Hodgman recognized Berg from the indie Late for Dinner.
    “It's called late for dinner.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 1:23:31 · John Hodgman (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Peter Berg → 30 for 30. The film's success made Berg a big enough star to be one of the first two directors for 30 for 30.
    “he was a big enough star that he was one of the 1st 2 directors we got for 30 for 30.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:27:01 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): Peter Berg → Friday Night Lights (2004 film). Berg reread the rejected scripts and the book and realized the story is about what football means to the community.
    “Peterburg read all of them and reread the book and he was like, what did they get wrong?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:12:49 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

people (3)

  1. people (frequent collaborator): Mark Wahlberg → Peter Berg. Berg is described as Wahlberg's only adult friend and director of his recent films.
    “It says it's like the, you know, the only friend he's made in his adult life.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Planet of the Apes with Matt Singer · 0:42:03 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Buzz Bissinger → Peter Berg. The author was Berg's cousin, which helped get the film made.
    “He was also cousins with Pete Berg, which is part of how this all happened”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:30:57 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
  3. people (people): Peter Berg → Connie Britton. Berg promised to build her a real character to win her over for the TV show.
    “I told her, I promise we'll create a character.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:02:38 · Mallory Rubin (0.60 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  1. what-if (what-if): Peter Berg → Dune. Berg planned a Dune for normies, emphasizing boy's adventure over the weird stuff.
    “basically, he was going to, like, make Dune for normies.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 1:26:32 · John Hodgman (0.80 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Peter Berg: On a first-class flight, Peter Berg pulled out two copies of Dune and offered Hodgman one, saying he was thinking about turning it into a movie.
    “And he pulls out a copy of Dune.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 1:24:12 · John Hodgman (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Peter Berg: Berg showed Hodgman spreadsheets of the most popular movies: young men's coming-of-age stories, his algorithm to crack Dune.
    “He had come up with the algorithm.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 1:25:50 · John Hodgman (0.80 sure it was them)