Nancy Meyers

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q235555: 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: Panic Room (2002); Gone Girl (2014); Home Again. Count them as director (10 films), writer (12 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.

Fight Club (1999): 3 lines

career (career) · through Panic Room (2002), which they were tied to as hypothetical director: 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 were tied to as hypothetical director: 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 were tied to as hypothetical director: 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)

A Simple Plan (1998): 1 line

lineage (adaptation model) · through Gone Girl (2014), which they were tied to as hypothetical director: 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

people (led to casting) · through Gone Girl (2014), which they were tied to as hypothetical director: 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)

Fargo (1996): 1 line

unmapped (model for the villains) · through Panic Room (2002), which they were tied to as hypothetical director: 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)

Gone Girl (Gillian Flynn novel): 1 line

lineage (adaptation) · through Gone Girl (2014), which they were tied to as hypothetical director: 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)

Jodie Foster: 1 line

unmapped (led to) · through Panic Room (2002), which they were tied to as hypothetical director: 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)

Lolita (1962): 1 line

theme (character type (Desi)) · through Gone Girl (2014), which they were tied to as hypothetical director: 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)

Rear Window (1954): 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through Panic Room (2002), which they were tied to as hypothetical director: 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)

Reese Witherspoon: 1 line

lineage (originated the project) · through Gone Girl (2014), which they were tied to as hypothetical director: 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)

Sling Blade (1996): 1 line

people (led to casting) · through Panic Room (2002), which they were tied to as hypothetical director: 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)

Steven Soderbergh: 1 line

unmapped (nod to a friend) · through Gone Girl (2014), which they were tied to as hypothetical director: 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)

Straw Dogs (1971): 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through Panic Room (2002), which they were tied to as hypothetical director: 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 Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011): 1 line

people (casting approach) · through Gone Girl (2014), which they were tied to as hypothetical director: 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)

The Silence of the Lambs (1991): 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through Panic Room (2002), which they were tied to as hypothetical director: 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 were tied to as hypothetical director: 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)

Drawn on by

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

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

people (led to casting) · through Gone Girl (2014), which they were tied to as hypothetical director: 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)

Flight Plan: 1 line

unmapped (template for) · through Panic Room (2002), which they were tied to as hypothetical director: 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)

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

unmapped (set the template for) · through Panic Room (2002), which they were tied to as hypothetical director: 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)

What the speakers said they did

Craft (1) everyone in craft

builds the houses and sets, the movie's look ("this is her vision"), Father of the Bride (The Rewatchables, ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins)

What was said about them, by kind

career (3)

career (career path): Nancy Meyers → Something's Gotta Give. After the divorce she developed a corner of films about women of a certain age thriving in later life.
“the corner that she eventually develops is like woman of a certain age, just real, like figuring out how to thrive in later life”
The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:22:18 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)
career (career): Nancy Meyers → Charles Shyer. With this film she separates herself from the Shyer filmography and goes deeper.
“this is Nancy, like, separating herself from the Shire filmography and being like, I'm gonna go deeper.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:34:25 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Nancy Meyers → Hans Zimmer. The speakers treat Zimmer's sweeping orchestral score as a fixture of Meyers's films.
“Hans Zimmer again. Nancy's reliable sweeping score.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:43:39 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)

contrast (1)

contrast (contrast): Nancy Meyers → You've Got Mail. Meyers was starting then and would have paired everyone off at the end; Ephron did not.
“Nancy Myers is starting, you know, around the same time as this movie's coming out and she's like, yeah, baby, everyone's going to be together at the end.”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:08:26 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

craft (9)

craft (craft): Nancy Meyers → Father of the Bride. Nancy Meyers is the goat of picking houses; Father of the Bride is the best to live in of all her houses.
“she was the goat of picking house.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ With Bill Simmons, Mallory Rubin, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:00:25 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Nancy Meyers → Nora Ephron. Juliet judges Nancy Meyers better as a writer than as a director, grouping her with Nora Ephron as writers with a specific female lens.
“Nancy Myers is like better as a writer than as a director”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:04:54 · Juliet Litman (0.75 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Something's Gotta Give → Nancy Meyers. The film's structure is Meyers's own and unlike her Meyers-Shyer collaborations.
“this is Nancy Meyers storytelling style and is distinctly different than the Meyers shire collaborations.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:24:35 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (craft): The Holiday → Nancy Meyers. Meyers uses a lot of CGI backgrounds; The Holiday reportedly had heavy CGI work.
“I heard from reliable sources that the holiday costs $100 million and 20 plus CGI.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:04:45 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Nancy Meyers → David Fincher. Her perfectionism is compared to Fincher and Kubrick.
“it's in it, like, to a David Fincher Kubrick degree.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:05:15 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Nancy Meyers → Stanley Kubrick. Same comparison: perfectionist takes.
“it's in it, like, to a David Fincher Kubrick degree.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:05:15 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Nancy Meyers → National Treasure. Griffin ties Jon Voight's soufflé line about National Treasure to Meyers: light, airy films that collapse if one element is wrong.
“I feel like Nancy is like a souffle filmmaker”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:33:22 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Something's Gotta Give → Nancy Meyers. A speaker says Meyers's signature score sound, including the delicate Spanish guitar, begins with this film.
“This is where her like, you know, her like delicate like Spanish guitar comes in for the 1st time.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:43:47 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Nancy Meyers → Hans Zimmer. A joke that Meyers hands Zimmer the name of a spa-waiting-room track and tells him to replicate it for 90 minutes.
“She goes to the receptionist and goes, can you give me the name of the track, sends it to Hans Zimmer and says, replicate this for 90 minutes.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:44:01 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)

industry (1)

industry (industry): Nora Ephron → Nancy Meyers. Four rom-com filmmakers covered on Blank Check; two of the men got Oscar nominations, the women did not.
“they're Cameron Crowe, James L. Brooks, Nora Efron, and Nancy Myers, and 2 of those 4 guys got best picture nominations of best director nominations.”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:37:41 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

people (2)

people (people): Diane Keaton → Nancy Meyers. Keaton is Meyers's stand-in on screen.
“Diane Keaton is like her perfect representation on screen.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:06:07 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
people (people): The Intern → Nancy Meyers. Anne Hathaway plays young Nancy in The Intern.
“Hathaway's like the adventures of young Nancy.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:18:56 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

programming (2)

programming (programming): Nancy Meyers → Alfred Hitchcock. Director-filmography episodes (Hitchcock, every Meyers movie) dictate what the hosts have to watch.
“we talked about every single Nancy Myers movie”
The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:18:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Robert Zemeckis → Nancy Meyers. Eclectic careers (Zemeckis) tend to help in March Madness, while Meyers is more consistent.
“I think people vote for a weird eclectic career to a certain degree”
Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:19:04 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)

theme (2)

theme (theme): Aaron Sorkin → Nancy Meyers. Neurotic, driven characters reflect their writer, as with Nancy Meyers.
“the same way when we talked about Nancy Myers.”
The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:11:50 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Danny DeVito → Nancy Meyers. DeVito is said to have Nancy Meyers energy with voters.
“Danny DeVito has Nancy Myers energy.”
Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:25:54 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

unmapped (marriage and directing team): Nancy Meyers → Charles Shyer. Husband and wife team who did Baby Boom and both Father of the Bride films, then divorced and she went on to direct Parent Trap and others.
“they were like a husband and wife directing team, and they did Baby Boom, they did Father-Bride, Father-Bride part 2, and then they flip, and she directs Parent trap.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:22:00 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)

what-if (2)

what-if (what-if): Gone Girl → Nancy Meyers. Meyers directing Gone Girl could nail Amy but might soft-pedal her viciousness.
“the Nancy Myers movie I want to see is Gone Girl”
The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:12:33 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Panic Room → Nancy Meyers. Panic Room is a drama of domesticity, a house that turns on you, suited to Meyers.
“a house and a room that turns against you, she would be engaging with a lot of the core themes”
The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:13:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

fun, about Nancy Meyers: A joking aside that Nancy Meyers recommends L.L.Bean sheets, spoken in mock-ad voice.
“Sheets that Nancy Myers recommends from LLB.”
The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:46:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Nancy Meyers: Meyers wrote the film for Nicholson and Keaton.
“She wrote it for the 2 of them.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:05:43 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Nancy Meyers: Pictures of Meyers look like Keaton in this film, down to the turtlenecks.
“when you look at pictures of Nancy Meyers, she looks like Diane Keaton in this movie down to the turtlenecks”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:06:12 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Nancy Meyers: In a press cycle she was annoyed by questions about her houses and said she keeps a Pinterest board.
“I keep a Pinterest board.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:44:39 · Bobby Finger (0.55 sure it was them)
fun, about Nancy Meyers: Meyers on why she cares about costume details.
“which sweater a character wears can say as much if you choose it correctly as any other element of a film?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:45:12 · Bobby Finger (0.55 sure it was them)