Greg Mottola

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q1356738: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

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: Superbad (2007); Confess, Fletch (2022); Adventureland.

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.

Fletch (1985): 1 line

  1. unmapped (reboot) · through Confess, Fletch (2022), which they directed: Fletch ⇒ Confess, Fletch (the host's read). Chris describes it as a riff on the long-promised Fletch franchise reboot, with Jon Hamm taking the role Chevy Chase made iconic.
    “Chevy Chase did an iconic turn as a Fletch character, a journalist come detective in Los Angeles.”
    The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 1:08:48 · Chris Ryan (0.85 sure it was them)

Weird Science (1985): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Superbad (2007), which they directed: Weird Science ⇒ Superbad (the host's read). Weird Science's ending was 'completely ripped off by super bad'.
    “Uh, really satisfying ending, then just completely ripped off by super bad.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:42:03 · 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.

Weird Science (1985): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Superbad (2007), which they directed: Superbad ⇒ Weird Science (the host's read). Weird Science may be the biggest influence on Superbad.
    “Like, I feel like, I don't know which was the biggest influence on Superbad.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:07:45 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Directing (3) everyone in directing

What was said about them, by kind

people (2)

  1. people (people): Greg Mottola → Superbad. Juliet notes Adventureland's director Greg Mottola also directed Superbad.
    “directed by Greg Matola, also directed, super bad.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 1:21:50 · Juliet Litman (0.85 sure it was them)
  2. people (director): Greg Mottola → Confess, Fletch. Chris credits Mottola as one of the most accomplished undersung directors.
    “they finally settled on Greg Matolo, who's one of like the most accomplished undersung directors out there”
    The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 1:09:02 · Chris Ryan (0.85 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

None.