Dwayne Johnson

Made films the shows talk about.

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Counted as producer, the making department they hold the most credits in. The films the hosts said they produced, which the two lists below run through too: Fighting with My Family (2019). Count them as actor (16 films) 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.

Rocky (1976): 2 lines

  1. craft (craft) · through Fighting with My Family (2019), which they produced: Rocky ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview). Merchant says you cannot make a sports movie without watching Rocky and all its sequels.
    “make any kind of sports a movie without watching Rocky or indeed all of the Rockies”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:45:46 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft) · through Fighting with My Family (2019), which they produced: Rocky ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview). Merchant calls Rocky a template because it beds in character so you root for him before the fight, a lesson he applied.
    “a template in the sense that it really beds in character”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:46:00 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)

42nd Street: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Fighting with My Family (2019), which they produced: 42nd Street ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview). Merchant says he saw the film as about becoming a star and entertainer, like old backstage musicals such as 42nd Street.
    “those old kind of um, musical, like 42nd Street, right?”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:27:31 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)

8 Mile: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Fighting with My Family (2019), which they produced: 8 Mile ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview). Merchant lists 8 Mile among films he thought about while making it.
    “The other things I thought about are 8 mile, the Eminem film.”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:46:49 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)

A Star Is Born (2018): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Fighting with My Family (2019), which they produced: A Star Is Born ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview). Merchant says he thought about A Star Is Born, the rags to riches story, as much as the sports side.
    “I was thinking as much about films like, you know, like a Star is Born”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:27:47 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)

Batman (Tim Burton): 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Fighting with My Family (2019), which they produced: Batman (Tim Burton) ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview). Merchant says his furious teenage reaction to Burton's Joker change taught him that a 90-minute movie must simplify its source, as he did with wrestling storylines.
    “the more that Tim Burton's decision to do that makes perfect sense to me as a 90 minute movie”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:35:54 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)

Billy Elliot: 1 line

  1. theme (theme) · through Fighting with My Family (2019), which they produced: Billy Elliot ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview). Merchant wanted a film that works for non-fans, as Billy Elliot makes you root for a ballet dancer despite no interest in ballet.
    “I kept thinking about movies like Billy Elliott.”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:33:50 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)

Dwayne Johnson: 1 line, within their own work

  1. people (people) · through Fighting with My Family (2019), which they produced: Dwayne Johnson ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview). Merchant says his friend Dwayne Johnson sent him the documentary that became the film.
    “my dear friend Dwayne The Rock Johnson sent me this documentary about a family of British wrestlers”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:22:34 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)

Saturday Night Fever (1977): 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Fighting with My Family (2019), which they produced: Saturday Night Fever ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview). Merchant treats the wrestling matches like the dance numbers in Saturday Night Fever, each with different moves building to a big finale.
    “the way that the wrestling sequences are almost little dance numbers.”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:47:51 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)

The Fighter (2010): 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Fighting with My Family (2019), which they produced: The Fighter ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview). Merchant borrowed The Fighter's low-budget trick of using HBO boxing cameramen so the wrestling would look like a real broadcast.
    “They used HBO boxing cameramen to shoot a lot of their fight scenes.”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:41:16 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

Fighting with My Family (2019): 1 line, within their own work

  1. people (people) · them, directly: Dwayne Johnson ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview). Merchant says his friend Dwayne Johnson sent him the documentary that became the film.
    “my dear friend Dwayne The Rock Johnson sent me this documentary about a family of British wrestlers”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:22:34 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Producing (1) everyone in producing

Acting (17) everyone in acting

What was said about them, by kind

career (3)

  1. career (career caution): Dwayne Johnson → Southland Tales. The Rock was spooked by Southland Tales flopping and avoids risky films.
    “I think also, and The Rock has talked so much about how much he was spooked by Southland Tales, flopping”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Planet of the Apes with Matt Singer · 1:43:43 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Dwayne Johnson → Tooth Fairy. Merchant knew Johnson from the Tooth Fairy days.
    “He did a film called Tooth Fairy, and we'd stayed in touch over the years.”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:23:27 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Dwayne Johnson → Fast and Furious (franchise). Merchant says Johnson was shooting a Fast and Furious film in England when he saw the documentary.
    “He was filming one of his Fast and Furious films.”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:23:33 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): Harrison Ford → Dwayne Johnson. Modern stars with contractual limits on losing fights contrast with Ford letting the German mechanic beat him up.
    “the infamous fucking like Dwayne Johnson, Vin Diesel contractual, how many punches they can take”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 2:48:37 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

people (2)

  1. people (people): Dwayne Johnson → Black Adam (planned). Black Adam, a Shazam villain, is supposed to be played by Dwayne Johnson.
    “a Black Adam movie, which is like a Shazam villain that's supposed to be played by Dwayne Johnson”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:07:21 · Miles Surrey (0.85 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Dwayne Johnson → Fighting with My Family. Merchant says his friend Dwayne Johnson sent him the documentary that became the film.
    “my dear friend Dwayne The Rock Johnson sent me this documentary about a family of British wrestlers”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:22:34 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)

theme (2)

  1. theme (star comparison): Dwayne Johnson → Arnold Schwarzenegger. Schwarzenegger gives himself over to directors, the Rock does not.
    “It's a big difference between the rock and Schwarzenegger.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Planet of the Apes with Matt Singer · 1:43:30 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. theme (comparison): Tom Cruise → Dwayne Johnson. Cruise treats himself like the Rock: put him in a legal thriller and you wait for him to punch through a table.
    “what's happened to him over the last 10 years or so is he is treating himself as if he is the rock.”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 0:32:44 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Dwayne Johnson: At WrestleMania the Rock lit a nine-foot sign of his name with a flamethrower and held the crowd for minutes without a word.
    “he managed to string that out for about 7 or 8 minutes without saying a word”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:37:32 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)