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 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.