John Grisham

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q106465: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as writer, the making department they hold the most credits in. The films the hosts said they wrote, which the two lists below run through too: The Firm (1993); The Pelican Brief (1993); The Client (1994); A Time to Kill (1996).

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.

A Few Good Men (1992): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through A Time to Kill (1996), which they wrote: 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)

The Verdict (1982): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Firm (1993), which they wrote: The Verdict ⇒ The Firm (the host's read). The Verdict is foundational for the Grisham underdog stories.
    “foundational for a lot of the Grisham stories”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:08:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

No line says anything drew on them or a film of theirs.

What the speakers said they did

Writing (7) everyone in writing

What was said about them, by kind

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): Stephen King → John Grisham. Grisham had a King-like run for about 7 years; King had five such stretches.
    “King had 5 stretches of 7 years like that, you know?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ With Bill Simmons and Brian Koppelman · 0:05:09 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

None.