Tim Miller

Made films the shows talk about.

Counted as craft. The films the hosts said they worked on, which the two lists below run through too: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011). Count them as director (3 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.

Blue Velvet (1986): 1 line

  1. unmapped (quoted line) · through The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), which they worked on as opening title sequence: Blue Velvet ⇒ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (the host's read). The fuck-you-you-fucking-fuck shirt is believed to originate from Dennis Hopper's line in Blue Velvet.
    “Hopper says that in blue velvet.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:24:04 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Stieg Larsson: 1 line

  1. lineage (adaptation) · through The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), which they worked on as opening title sequence: Stieg Larsson ⇒ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (the host's read). The film is Zaillian's abridged adaptation of Larsson's novel, which loses nothing major.
    “I think this is an excellent piece of adaptation that does not really, like, skip anything major.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 0:49:09 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Sven Nykvist: 1 line

  1. craft (visual reference) · through The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), which they worked on as opening title sequence: Sven Nykvist ⇒ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (the maker said so). Someone on the shoot (Fincher, or the DP by the garbled name) wanted a Sven Nykvist look: warm fires, cold rooms.
    “I wanted to do a whole Sven Nikfist thing”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:11:05 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Swedish, 2009) (2009): 1 line

  1. lineage (remake) · through The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), which they worked on as opening title sequence: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Swedish, 2009) ⇒ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (the host's read). The Fincher film is the American remake of the Swedish original; its director says he was not worried.
    “Everyone who loves film will go see the original.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 0:54:19 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

The Social Network (2010): 1 line

  1. people (casting led to) · through The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), which they worked on as opening title sequence: The Social Network ⇒ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (the host's read). Pascal saw the dailies from The Social Network and picked Rooney Mara for Lisbeth Salander.
    “Pascal basically sees the dailies from this movie and is like, Rooney Morris, Elizabeth Salander.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network (Ad-Free) · 0:59:02 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

Gone Girl (2014): 1 line

  1. people (casting approach) · through The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), which they worked on as opening title sequence: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ⇒ Gone Girl (the host's read). The speaker thinks Fincher's exhaustive casting search on Dragon Tattoo informed how he cast Amy with someone new to the audience.
    “that exhaustive casting search, which I do think informs the way he approaches Amy going into this movie as well”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl with Esther Zuckerman (Ad-Free) · 0:55:22 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Directing (3) everyone in directing

Other (3) everyone in other

Craft (2) everyone in craft

What was said about them, by kind

unmapped (3)

  1. unmapped (title sequences): Tim Miller → David Fincher. Miller worked with Fincher a lot and did many of his title sequences.
    “Tim Miller, who eventually makes the Deadpool movie, but worked with Fincher a lot and did a lot of his title sequences and such.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network (Ad-Free) · 0:20:19 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (protege): David Fincher → Tim Miller. Fincher kept generating projects to boost Tim Miller from animatics and titles to filmmaker.
    “it felt like he kept on trying to generate projects for Tim Miller, and Heavy Metal was one of those to sort of boost Tim Miller”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network (Ad-Free) · 0:20:49 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (got him a job): Tim Miller → Jeff Fowler. Fowler was hired onto Sonic because he had the Tim Miller stamp of approval.
    “Jeff Fowler got hired onto Sonic because he had the Tim Miller stamp of approval.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:31:40 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

None.