Jack Nicholson

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q39792: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to As Good as It Gets, which The Lost World: Jurassic Park credits them on.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Head (1968); Carnal Knowledge (1971); Chinatown (1974); One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975); The Fortune (1975); The Shining (1980); Reds (1981); Terms of Endearment (1983); Broadcast News (1987); Batman (1989); The Two Jakes (1990); A Few Good Men (1992); Wolf (1994); Mars Attacks! (1996); As Good as It Gets (1997); The Pledge (2001); About Schmidt (2002); Something's Gotta Give (2003); The Departed (2006); The Bucket List (2007); How Do You Know (2010); The Batman (2022); Anger Management; Blood and Wine; Easy Rider; Five Easy Pieces; Goin' South; The King of Marvin Gardens; The Last Detail; The Last Tycoon; The Missouri Breaks; The Passenger; The Postman Always Rings Twice; The Witches of Eastwick; Tommy. Count them as director (1 film), 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.

Chinatown (1974): 2 lines, within their own work

lineage (lineage) · through The Two Jakes (1990), which they acted in: Chinatown ⇒ The Two Jakes (the host's read). The Two Jakes is the Chinatown sequel.
“You've got the 2 Jakes, which is the Chinatown sequel.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:19:31 · Chris Ryan (0.80 sure it was them)
lineage (sequel) · through The Two Jakes (1990), which they acted in: Chinatown ⇒ The Two Jakes (the host's read). The Two Jakes follows Chinatown as a sequel.
“But that's a sequel.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer with Marie Bardi (Ad-Free) · 0:26:17 · unknown (host) (0.30 sure it was them)

Stephen King: 2 lines

unmapped (blueprint) · through The Shining (1980), which they acted in: Stephen King ⇒ The Shining (the maker said so: Kubrick quotes in the research dossier). The speakers read Kubrick saying the novel's plot is a good blueprint for the movie he wanted to make.
“I can make whatever movie I want with that as a blueprint.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:04:04 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (adaptation) · through The Shining (1980), which they acted in: Stephen King ⇒ The Shining (the host's read). The film is the second Stephen King novel adaptation, after Carrie.
“This is the 2nd Stephen King film adaptation.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:09:27 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968): 1 line

unmapped (led to Kubrick mythology) · through The Shining (1980), which they acted in: 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ The Shining (the host's read). 2001 is the reason for Kubrick's godlike mythology, without which people would invest less in The Shining.
“I don't think people would invest as much into The Shining if this movie didn't exist.”
Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:01:49 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Batman (1943 serial) (1943): 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through The Batman (2022), which they acted in: Batman (1943 serial) ⇒ The Batman (the host's read). A New York screening of the 1943 Lewis Wilson serial caused bat fever and led Fox to greenlight the movie.
“someone screened that in New York City and it was such a phenomenon.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:11:37 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Boris Karloff: 1 line

unmapped (borrowed habit) · them, directly: Boris Karloff ⇒ Jack Nicholson (the maker said so: the Vivian Kubrick documentary). In the Vivian Kubrick documentary Nicholson says he took his script-marking habit from Karloff.
“I stole this from Boris Karloff”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:55:59 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)

Infernal Affairs (2002): 1 line

lineage (remake source) · through The Departed (2006), which they acted in: Infernal Affairs ⇒ The Departed (the host's read). The Departed is a remake of the Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs, which is tighter.
“It was called Infernal Affairs, the Hark Kong one?”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:59:09 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Meet the Parents (2000): 1 line

programming (programming) · through Something's Gotta Give (2003), which they acted in: Meet the Parents ⇒ Something's Gotta Give (the host's read). Nicholson may have seen Meet the Parents and wanted a piece of that audience.
“Do you think he saw meet the parents and was like, I can do that too?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:05:06 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Scarface (1983): 1 line

lineage (homage) · through The Departed (2006), which they acted in: Scarface ⇒ The Departed (the host's read). The film has references to classic gangster films like the original Scarface that feel like pastiche.
“there's a couple of references in this movie to classic gangster films like the original Scarface”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:45:24 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Seven (1995): 1 line

unmapped (borrowing) · through The Batman (2022), 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 Long Halloween (comic): 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through The Batman (2022), which they acted in: The Long Halloween (comic) ⇒ The Batman (the host's read). Every adaptation pulls from The Long Halloween but has not used Calendar Man.
“Everyone has pulled from the long Halloween, but not used calendar man.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:43:06 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

The Verdict (1982): 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through A Few Good Men (1992), which they acted in: The Verdict ⇒ A Few Good Men (the host's read). You cannot have A Few Good Men without The Verdict; everything on the courtroom checklist comes from it.
“you really, really cannot have a few good men without having the verdict”
The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:07:27 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)

Whitey Bulger: 1 line

unmapped (real-life model) · them, directly: Whitey Bulger ⇒ Jack Nicholson (the host's read). Nicholson is basically playing Whitey Bulger, a Boston crime lord who would not refuse a Red Sox hat.
“he basically playing Whitey Bulger.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:34:35 · 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.

Doctor Sleep (2019): 6 lines

lineage (sequel) · through The Shining (1980), which they acted in: The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read). Doctor Sleep is the sequel to Kubrick's The Shining, which is the whole sell and the whole problem.
“You're doing a sequel to The Shining.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:12:41 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (sequel) · through The Shining (1980), which they acted in: The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read). Doctor Sleep is the sequel to The Shining.
“Dr. Sleep, the sequel to, which I feel like is actually a better movie”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:58:43 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (homage) · through The Shining (1980), which they acted in: The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read). Doctor Sleep has to pay some homage to Kubrick while following a novel whose author hates the film.
“it has to thread paying some homage to Kubrick”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:14:53 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage) · through The Shining (1980), which they acted in: The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read). Doctor Sleep's script threads King's book and Kubrick's film, and addresses King's complaint about what Kubrick changed.
“It addresses the conflict between Stephen King and what he didn't like about the Kubrick movie.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 0:46:49 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage) · through The Shining (1980), which they acted in: The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read). Doctor Sleep uses grown-up Danny and a new generation, Abra Stone.
“Using a familiar figure from the original film in Danny, the grown up Danny”
The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:31:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (sequel) · through The Shining (1980), which they acted in: The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read). Doctor Sleep is named as a continuation of The Shining, with the Stephen King thing.
“There's also Doctor Sleep.”
Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 2:48:12 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

The Dark Knight Rises (2012): 2 lines

lineage (lineage) · through The Batman (2022), which they acted in: The Batman ⇒ The Dark Knight Rises (the host's read). The ocean bomb-disposal sequence is thought to be directly referenced in the final act of Dark Knight Rises.
“this sequence, a lot of people think, is directly referenced by the final act of Dark Knight Rises.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:18:49 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage) · through The Batman (2022), which they acted in: The Batman ⇒ The Dark Knight Rises (the host's read). The giant bomb, the film's most iconic image, is what Dark Knight Rises lifts.
“This is the thing that Dark Knight Rises kind of lifts.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:14:38 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

The Two Jakes (1990): 2 lines, within their own work

lineage (lineage) · through Chinatown (1974), which they acted in: Chinatown ⇒ The Two Jakes (the host's read). The Two Jakes is the Chinatown sequel.
“You've got the 2 Jakes, which is the Chinatown sequel.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:19:31 · Chris Ryan (0.80 sure it was them)
lineage (sequel) · through Chinatown (1974), which they acted in: Chinatown ⇒ The Two Jakes (the host's read). The Two Jakes follows Chinatown as a sequel.
“But that's a sequel.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer with Marie Bardi (Ad-Free) · 0:26:17 · unknown (host) (0.30 sure it was them)

1980s Stephen King adaptations (Cujo, The Dead Zone, Christine, etc.): 1 line

unmapped (led to) · through The Shining (1980), which they acted in: The Shining ⇒ 1980s Stephen King adaptations (Cujo, The Dead Zone, Christine, etc.) (the host's read). After The Shining and Carrie came the real 1980s wave of King adaptations.
“the real 80s wave of like lots of king stuff.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:09:47 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

A Time to Kill (1996): 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through A Few Good Men (1992), which they acted in: A Few Good Men ⇒ A Time to Kill (the host's read). A Time to Kill blends every earlier trope: country lawyer, big-shot prosecutor, cranky judge.
“puts them in a blender and it gives you every single thing”
The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:28:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Batman Forever (1995): 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through The Batman (2022), which they acted in: The Batman ⇒ Batman Forever (the host's read). Burton had a plane and a boat which Schumacher updated in Batman Forever; Batman & Robin gave Robin a motorcycle.
“Burton has a plane and a boat.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:27:30 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Batman Forever / Batman & Robin: 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through The Batman (2022), which they acted in: The Batman ⇒ Batman Forever / Batman & Robin (the host's read). Griffin says Schumacher's Batman films are directly shaped by the Adam West show's pairing and cliffhanger style.
“Joel Schumacher is very influenced by the Adam West show.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:08:26 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)

Batman Returns (1992): 1 line

theme (theme) · through The Batman (2022), which they acted in: The Batman ⇒ Batman Returns (the host's read). Villains scheming together in Batman Returns and Schumacher films echoes the 1966 team-up, but those feel forced.
“The team up does always feel a little forced”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:42:12 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)

Bobby's World (TV): 1 line

lineage (homage) · through The Shining (1980), which they acted in: The Shining ⇒ Bobby's World (TV) (the host's read). The Bobby's World opening of Bobby on a big wheel is called an homage to The Shining.
“And it's so clearly has to be an homage to this”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:06:41 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)

Chill Factor (1999): 1 line

people (people) · through As Good as It Gets (1997), which they acted in: As Good as It Gets ⇒ Chill Factor (the host's read). Gooding and Skeet Ulrich supposedly bonded on this set and made Chill Factor together.
“They clearly just hit it off so hard at the craft service table on as good as it gets that they said, we got to find a vehicle for the 2 of us”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · As Good as It Gets with Chris Gethard · 0:58:48 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Chinatown prequel (unmade): 1 line

unmapped (prequel) · through Chinatown (1974), which they acted in: Chinatown ⇒ Chinatown prequel (unmade) (the host's read). Fincher's unrealized project is a prequel to Chinatown with Robert Towne.
“he also had one other unrealized project, a prequel to Chinatown, that he's been working on with Robert Town.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer with Marie Bardi (Ad-Free) · 0:25:55 · unknown (host) (0.30 sure it was them)

Conan O'Brien: 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through The Batman (2022), which they acted in: The Batman ⇒ Conan O'Brien (the host's read). Conan's brand of obvious-shorthand humor is why this humor lands for the hosts; Conan echoes it.
“Conan is actually probably a crucial reason this humor lands for us because Conan is echoing it.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:37:33 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Ready Player One: 1 line

lineage (homage) · through The Shining (1980), which they acted in: The Shining ⇒ Ready Player One (the host's read). Ready Player One has a fun sequence set in the hotel.
“Ready player one, they go to the hotel.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:26:19 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Stephen King's The Shining (1997 miniseries): 1 line

unmapped (answered by) · through The Shining (1980), which they acted in: The Shining ⇒ Stephen King's The Shining (1997 miniseries) (the host's read). King's own miniseries is described as him showing folks the real Shining, after his objections to the film.
“okay, time to roll up my sleeves and show you folks the real shining.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:47:01 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)

The Simpsons (TV): 1 line

unmapped (parody) · through The Shining (1980), which they acted in: The Shining ⇒ The Simpsons (TV) (the host's read). The Simpsons parodied the film; the speaker knew its elements from parodies first.
“I feel like I'd seen so many parodies of different elements of this.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:35:57 · Ben Hosley (0.40 sure it was them)

Zodiac (2007): 1 line

unmapped (stolen move) · through The Shining (1980), which they acted in: The Shining ⇒ Zodiac (the host's read). Fincher steals the Steadicam move where the camera turns with the car and keeps it centered.
“Fincher steals that move of like when the car turns a corner”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:05:09 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Craft (1) everyone in craft

designed his own wardrobe for the character (said as trivia; "sewed it himself" was a joke), As Good as It Gets (Blank Check with Griffin & David, As Good as It Gets with Chris Gethard)

What was said about them, by kind

contrast (3)

contrast (contrast): Tom Cruise → Jack Nicholson. The winner of the showdown is Cruise, not Nicholson.
“the winner of that scene is Tom Cruise and not Jack Nicholson”
The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:25:51 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Jack Nicholson → Warren Beatty. The two were Hollywood's great lovers; Beatty settled down, Nicholson never slowed.
“those were like the 2 major Hollywood lovers of their time, and then Beatty like settles down hard”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:09:05 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Alec Baldwin → Jack Nicholson. Baldwin is one-tenth of Nicholson in the casting of the two films.
“The hire Alec Baldwin is like one tenth of Nicholson.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:26:13 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

craft (2)

craft (craft): Jack Nicholson → As Good as It Gets. A host says Nicholson designed his own character's wardrobe, aiming for a downtown look, then jokes he sewed it himself like Daniel Day-Lewis.
“Jack Nicholson designed the wardrobe for this character.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · As Good as It Gets with Chris Gethard · 1:28:16 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (unclear) (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Terms of Endearment → Jack Nicholson. Nicholson is unusually unvain and vulnerable, as discussed on the Terms of Endearment episode.
“he's so good at letting himself be like vulnerable and like foolish.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:46:03 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

people (5)

people (people): Jack Nicholson → Terms of Endearment. Brooks had already worked with Nicholson on Terms of Endearment, where he won an Oscar.
“he'd work with Nicholson on terms of endearment, he wins an Oscar.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · As Good as It Gets with Chris Gethard · 1:16:16 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
people (people): Jack Nicholson → Broadcast News. Nicholson also pops off in Broadcast News, another Brooks film.
“Nicholson also pops off in broadcast news.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · As Good as It Gets with Chris Gethard · 1:16:21 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
people (tried to cast): Steven Spielberg → Jack Nicholson. Spielberg reportedly tried hard to get Nicholson for a cameo in Ready Player One.
“I had heard how hard Spielberg tried to get him for Ready Player one.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:21:18 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
people (collaborator): Bob Rafelson → Jack Nicholson. Rafelson wrote Head with Nicholson.
“when Bob Raffelson was writing head with him.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:57:55 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
people (live-wire actors): Malcolm McDowell → Jack Nicholson. Both are called insane live-wire actors, chaos Kubrick knew how to control.
“But like, McDowell and Nicholson are both like insane live wire behavioral uncontrollable actors.”
Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 0:38:43 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)

theme (6)

theme (comparison): Jack Nicholson → Tim Robinson. Nicholson's second bar scene is half a percent from an I Think You Should Leave performance.
“is about one half of a percent away from an I think you should leave Tim Robinson performance.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:37:13 · Tim Simons (0.55 sure it was them)
theme (comparison): Jack Nicholson → Spencer Tracy. Kubrick compares Nicholson to Spencer Tracy as one of the two greatest stars.
“Kubrick compares him to who he thinks of the 2 greatest stars, Spencer Tracy and Jimmy Cagney.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:31:09 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
theme (comparison): Jack Nicholson → James Cagney. Kubrick compares Nicholson to Jimmy Cagney as one of the two greatest stars.
“Kubrick compares him to who he thinks of the 2 greatest stars, Spencer Tracy and Jimmy Cagney.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:31:09 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
theme (comparison): Jack Nicholson → Tim Robinson. Both can go huge without it feeling like pushing.
“there are 2 guys who can go so fucking big.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:55:14 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Something's Gotta Give → Jack Nicholson. The film is a deconstruction of Nicholson's own star persona.
“It's very much a deconstruction of his star persona.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:05:47 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Jack Nicholson → Mel Gibson. Nicholson, Gibson and Baldwin are Meyers's sleazy-but-appealing leading men.
“Baldwin, Gibson, Baldwin, Gibson, and Nicholson are a trifactor.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:51:39 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

unmapped (6)

unmapped (real-life model): Jack Nicholson → Whitey Bulger. Nicholson is basically playing Whitey Bulger, a Boston crime lord who would not refuse a Red Sox hat.
“he basically playing Whitey Bulger.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:34:35 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
unmapped (Hannibal Lecter part): Jack Nicholson → A Few Good Men. A role like Costello, like Jessup or Lecter, is a home-run part that should get a supporting actor nod.
“This was like the Hannibal Lecter, that even the Jessup and Fugon man.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:49:34 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
unmapped (shared films): Scatman Crothers → Jack Nicholson. Scatman had been in a bunch of Nicholson movies, including The Fortune and Cuckoo's Nest.
“he had been in a bunch of Nicholson movies.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:21:17 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
unmapped (recommended): Jack Nicholson → Scatman Crothers. Nicholson recommended Scatman Crothers for the role.
“And so Nicholson recommends him for this.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:21:23 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
unmapped (borrowed habit): Boris Karloff → Jack Nicholson. In the Vivian Kubrick documentary Nicholson says he took his script-marking habit from Karloff.
“I stole this from Boris Karloff”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:55:59 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
unmapped (attached star): Jack Nicholson → Napoleon (Kubrick's unmade film). Nicholson was going to play Napoleon.
“Jack Nicholson was going to play Napoleon, obviously.”
Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:14:18 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

what-if (4)

what-if (casting what-if): Jack Nicholson → Al Pacino. Pacino was first choice for Costello and Simmons thinks he would have been better, though over the top.
“I think Costello's better with Pacino.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:16:14 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if casting): Jack Nicholson → Napoleon (unmade). Kubrick wanted Nicholson to play Napoleon in his unmade Napoleon film.
“He had wanted him to play Napoleon in his Napoleon movie.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:30:35 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if casting): Jack Nicholson → Napoleon (Kubrick's unmade film). Kubrick wanted Jack Nicholson as Napoleon.
“He wanted Jack Nicholson to play the role.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 0:20:13 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Toni Erdmann → Jack Nicholson. A wish that Nicholson do the Toni Erdmann remake.
“God, I want him to do like that Tony Irbman remake or something.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:08:42 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

fun, about Jack Nicholson: Chris puts Melvin Udall in his top three unapologetic dickhead performances.
“I think Jack Nicholson and this might be in my top three.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · As Good as It Gets with Chris Gethard · 0:32:43 · Chris Gethard (0.80 sure it was them)
fun, about Jack Nicholson: Nicholson reportedly wanted a prostitute scene with a dildo, was talked out of it, but kept the prop and ad-libbed it into the movie theater scene.
“he had some crazy hooker scene with dildos that he wanted to shoot and they talked him out of it”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:16:48 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Jack Nicholson: Half-assed research: Nicholson reportedly refused to wear a Red Sox hat and banned Celtics gear on the set, and he and Ray Winstone did not get along.
“Nicholson refused to wear a Red Sox hat during the filming and banned all Celtic Cats on the set.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:28:58 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Jack Nicholson: Winner of unintentional comedy: a 32-second Nicholson run at the end with his body going in nine directions.
“there's this 32nd scene of Jack Nicholson running.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:37:19 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)
fun, about Jack Nicholson: Someone who worked with him reported Nicholson saying he makes classics, not movies.
“I don't make movies. I make classics.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:32:16 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Jack Nicholson: On set, Nicholson broke down the door with the axe faster than the crew could replace it; he was once a fireman.
“He famously like broke the door down more than they could.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:57:08 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
fun, about Jack Nicholson: On A Few Good Men, Nicholson gave full energy off camera for every other actor's coverage.
“He did off camera for everyone's, like, fucking takes and he did full energy every time.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:57:27 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
fun, about Jack Nicholson: After 9/11 Nicholson said he only wanted to make fun movies, telling Billy Crystal during an Oscar telecast.
“He was saying this to Billy Crystal during an Oscar telecast.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:04:45 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)