Andrew Kevin Walker

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q505689: 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: Seven (1995); Panic Room (2002). Count them as writer (7 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.

Fight Club (1999): 3 lines

career (career) · through Panic Room (2002), which they acted in: 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)
craft (craft) · through Panic Room (2002), which they acted in: 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)
unmapped (response to) · through Panic Room (2002), which they acted in: 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)

Alfred Hitchcock: 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through Seven (1995), which they acted in: Alfred Hitchcock ⇒ Seven (the host's read). Se7en is a Hitchcock movie in its pulling-your-chain structure of mystery, reveal and anxiety, and Hitchcock is Fincher's biggest influence.
“I think as much as this seems like a modern movie, it's also just completely a Hitchcock movie in so many ways.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:14:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

All That Jazz (1979): 1 line

lineage (cited influence) · through Seven (1995), which they acted in: All That Jazz ⇒ Seven (the maker said so). A host recalls a Fincher film the show covered where he cited All That Jazz as an inspiration for the look, maybe Seven.
“where he cited how much of an inspiration all that jazz was for him for the look of the movie?”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:13:07 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Fargo (1996): 1 line

unmapped (model for the villains) · through Panic Room (2002), which they acted in: Fargo ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). A host feels Panic Room's funny villain and scary villain pair uses the Buscemi and Stormare model from Fargo.
“But I'm realizing how much wisely it does feel like they're sort of using the model of Bushemi and Stoneman.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 2:20:45 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Jodie Foster: 1 line

unmapped (led to) · through Panic Room (2002), which they acted in: Jodie Foster ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). The Game casting fell through, and Panic Room happened because she still wanted to work with Fincher.
“Panic room ends up happening because of how badly she still wanted to work with Venture”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 0:56:56 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Klute: 1 line

lineage (visual inspiration) · through Seven (1995), which they acted in: Klute ⇒ Seven (the maker said so). The speaker watched Klute because Fincher and DP Darius Khondji cited it as an inspiration for Se7en's dark look and flashlight-led framing.
“I watched Clute over the weekend because I know that both Fincher and Darius Conji, the DP, had cited that as an inspiration”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 2:38:58 · Nick Wiger or Mike Mitchell (unresolved) (0.30 sure it was them)

Rear Window (1954): 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through Panic Room (2002), which they acted in: Rear Window ⇒ Panic Room (the maker said so: Fincher's quotes the host reads). Fincher saw it as a cross between Rear Window and Straw Dogs.
“So Fitcher saw panic group as a cross between rear window and straw dogs.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:17:38 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

Sling Blade (1996): 1 line

people (led to casting) · through Panic Room (2002), which they acted in: Sling Blade ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). A host says Yoakam was cast in Panic Room off of Sling Blade.
“That was kind of what he got cast off over.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 1:02:00 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Straw Dogs (1971): 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through Panic Room (2002), which they acted in: Straw Dogs ⇒ Panic Room (the maker said so: Fincher's quotes the host reads). Fincher saw it as a cross between Rear Window and Straw Dogs (Peckinpah).
“So Fitcher saw panic group as a cross between rear window and straw dogs.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:17:38 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

The Silence of the Lambs (1991): 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through Panic Room (2002), which they acted in: The Silence of the Lambs ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). The switcheroo with the dad and Raoul is a little Silence of the Lambs homage.
“A little silence of lambs homage.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:53:47 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Thief (1981): 1 line

craft (craft) · through Panic Room (2002), which they acted in: Thief ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). Fincher may have watched Thief before Panic Room.
“Fincher does panic room and he probably saw Thief like 2 weeks before he started filming”
The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:40:36 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

William Friedkin: 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through Seven (1995), which they acted in: William Friedkin ⇒ Seven (the maker said so). Fincher drew from Friedkin and wanted it to feel like an episode of Cops.
“he's drawn from like Friedkin, but he's also, he's, he's referenced like how he wanted it to feel like an episode of cops.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:15:42 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

Fight Club (1999): 2 lines

career (career) · through Seven (1995), which they acted in: 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)
career (career lever) · through Seven (1995), which they acted in: 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)

The Game (1997): 2 lines

unmapped (R-rated proof) · through Seven (1995), which they acted in: Seven ⇒ The Game (the host's read). Se7en's hit status as an R-rated film convinced the backers to fund The Game.
“I think convinced, um, people like, okay, like, you can make an R-rated movie a hit.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 0:33:16 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (commercial lead-in) · through Seven (1995), which they acted in: Seven ⇒ The Game (the host's read). Se7en's success gave Fincher an absurd budget for The Game.
“this is better for me because now I can make this movie at an absurd budget.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 0:47:35 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

8mm (1999): 1 line

lineage (rip-off) · through Seven (1995), which they acted in: Seven ⇒ 8mm (the host's read). Calls 8mm Schumacher ripping off Se7en.
“8 millimeter is Schumacher ripping off seven.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 0:41:48 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Flight Plan: 1 line

unmapped (template for) · through Panic Room (2002), which they acted in: Panic Room ⇒ Flight Plan (the host's read). A host says Panic Room set the template for what looked like Foster's next phase of adult thrillers.
“And I do think it's sort of set a template for what felt like, oh, this is Jody Foster's next phase that then went sort of died prematurely.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:01:44 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

MTV Movie Awards Se7en parody: 1 line

unmapped (parody) · through Seven (1995), which they acted in: Seven ⇒ MTV Movie Awards Se7en parody (the host's read). The MTV Movie Awards parodied the Se7en ending with William Shatner playing every role and the head in the box.
“And then Shatner's head is in the box and then he sings a song.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 2:34:40 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Nine Inch Nails: 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through Seven (1995), which they acted in: Seven ⇒ Nine Inch Nails (the host's read). Se7en caught industrial rock at its peak and led to Fincher-Reznor scores.
“Fincher and Rezner go on to make this incredible partnership”
The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:55:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them)

Saw (film series): 1 line

unmapped (borrowing) · through Seven (1995), which they acted in: Seven ⇒ Saw (film series) (the host's read). Rewatching the Saw movies, the speaker was struck by how much they lifted from Se7en.
“I forgot how much saw stole.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 0:59:00 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018): 1 line

unmapped (set the template for) · through Panic Room (2002), which they acted in: Panic Room ⇒ Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (the host's read). A host says Fincher's all-previs approach on this film created the pipeline for how blockbusters are made.
“But that disc 2 is so much about that he basically created the pipeline for how all fucking blockbusters are made on this movie.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:31:38 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

The Batman (2022): 1 line

unmapped (borrowing) · through Seven (1995), which they acted in: Seven ⇒ The Batman (the host's read). The speaker had forgotten how indebted The Batman is to Fincher, mostly to Se7en.
“I had forgotten just how indebted the Batman is to...”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 1:28:34 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

The Killer (2023): 1 line

unmapped (idea credit) · them, directly: Andrew Kevin Walker ⇒ The Killer (the maker said so). Fincher credits Walker with the contemporary consumerist and technology angle of the film.
“Walker with the sort of like contemporary consumerist angle that this movie has, right?”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer with Marie Bardi (Ad-Free) · 0:47:20 · unknown (host) (0.30 sure it was them)

True Detective (2014): 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through Seven (1995), which they acted in: Seven ⇒ True Detective (the host's read). Se7en's influence shows in True Detective from the title sequence to the characters, though True Detective's first season flinches at the dark ending.
“you can see the influence of of 7 on things like True Detective from the title sequence to the characters.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:15:19 · Chris Ryan (0.55 sure it was them)

Zodiac (2007): 1 line

unmapped (why Fincher was offered it) · through Seven (1995), which they acted in: Seven ⇒ Zodiac (the host's read). Seven made Fincher the first choice for any serial-killer project, Zodiac included.
“Ever since he makes seven, if there's some serial killer movie, is getting sent it”
Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free) · 0:51:53 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

later crime thrillers and crime TV (unnamed): 1 line

lineage (genre influence) · through Seven (1995), which they acted in: Seven ⇒ later crime thrillers and crime TV (unnamed) (the host's read). As an adult the speaker is less shocked by Se7en because everyone since took a page out of its book.
“I'm not as shocked by 7 because everyone took a page out of its book, of course.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 2:15:39 · Mike Mitchell (0.50 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

What was said about them, by kind

career (2)

career (career): Andrew Kevin Walker → Tower Records (his job). Walker wrote Se7en over two years while working at Tower Records.
“The writer, Andrew Kevin Walker, who wrote this movie over a two-year period while working at Tower Records.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:33:34 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
career (career): Andrew Kevin Walker → 8mm. Walker followed Se7en with 8mm; the speakers call it his Casino, a 98-out-of-100 version.
“I feel like 8 millimeter is Andrew Kevin Walker's casino.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:34:26 · Bill Simmons (0.65 sure it was them)

people (4)

people (people): Andrew Kevin Walker → Seven. The Panic Room neighbor actor is the writer of Se7en.
“And did you know that the guy who plays the neighbor is Andrew Kevin Walker, a guy who wrote seven?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:32:43 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
people (unmade collaboration): Andrew Kevin Walker → 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (unmade). Walker also worked on Fincher's 20,000 Leagues that never happened.
“worked on Fincher Fincher's 20,000 Leagues Under the C movie that never happened.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer with Marie Bardi (Ad-Free) · 0:46:09 · unknown (host) (0.30 sure it was them)
people (cameo): Andrew Kevin Walker → Panic Room. The writer of Seven plays the sleepy neighbor who closes his blinds.
“Andrew Kevin Walker, the writer of seven, plays the sleepy neighbor.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 2:13:46 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
people (shared writer): Andrew Kevin Walker → The Killer. Walker wrote Se7en and is the screenwriter of Fincher's new film The Killer.
“Also in Andrew Kevin Walker's script, right?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 2:38:14 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

theme (1)

theme (recurring motif): Andrew Kevin Walker → Fight Club. Walker brought a similar modern-tech angle (name tags) to Fight Club.
“I think he had some of that in fight club too”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer with Marie Bardi (Ad-Free) · 0:48:38 · unknown (host) (0.30 sure it was them)

unmapped (7)

unmapped (name joke): Andrew Kevin Walker → Panic Room. The cops in Panic Room were all named after Walker.
“One the cops were all named after him.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer with Marie Bardi (Ad-Free) · 0:46:06 · unknown (host) (0.30 sure it was them)
unmapped (idea credit): Andrew Kevin Walker → The Killer. Fincher credits Walker with the contemporary consumerist and technology angle of the film.
“Walker with the sort of like contemporary consumerist angle that this movie has, right?”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer with Marie Bardi (Ad-Free) · 0:47:20 · unknown (host) (0.30 sure it was them)
unmapped (screenwriter): Andrew Kevin Walker → Seven. Walker is named as the writer of Seven.
“Andrew Kevin Walker, the writer of seven, plays the sleepy neighbor.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 2:13:46 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (screenwriter): Andrew Kevin Walker → The Killer. A host says Walker wrote the new Killer, and others note the graphic novel is a cool thing to adapt.
“He wrote the killer.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 2:14:04 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (script polish): Andrew Kevin Walker → Fight Club. Walker polished the script, as he did with The Game.
“Andrew Kevin Walker, polish.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:14:16 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (script polish): Andrew Kevin Walker → The Game. Walker's polish pass on Fight Club is compared to the polish he did on The Game.
“As he did with the game.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:14:18 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (script doctor): Andrew Kevin Walker → The Game. Fincher brought in the writer of Se7en to fix the script.
“Andrew Kevin Walker, the writer of seven.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 0:44:09 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

fun, about Andrew Kevin Walker: The neighbor in Panic Room is played by Andrew Kevin Walker, the writer of Se7en.
“And did you know that the guy who plays the neighbor is Andrew Kevin Walker, a guy who wrote seven?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:32:43 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Andrew Kevin Walker: Walker wrote Se7en over two years while working at Tower Records and plays the first dead guy in prosthetics.
“He does have a cameo at the beginning.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:33:57 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Andrew Kevin Walker: Fincher's 2008 approach to Walker: backstory is overrated.
“He's like, I think backstory is overrated.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer with Marie Bardi (Ad-Free) · 0:14:43 · David Sims (0.55 sure it was them)
fun, about Andrew Kevin Walker: Fincher pitched Walker a five-chapter plan for The Killer in 2008, nothing happened for ten years, then in 2018 he recited it back word for word and said he was set up at Netflix. Walker told this at the Q&A.
“And then 2018, he goes, do you remember that killer thing?”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer with Marie Bardi (Ad-Free) · 0:15:39 · David Sims (0.55 sure it was them)
fun, about Andrew Kevin Walker: The writer of Seven plays the sleepy neighbor who closes his blinds on the Morse code signal.
“Andrew Kevin Walker, the writer of seven, plays the sleepy neighbor.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 2:13:46 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Andrew Kevin Walker: Walker wrote the spec while working at Tower Records.
“He worked at Tower Records.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 0:34:24 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (reading the dossier) (0.40 sure it was them)