Lawrence Kasdan

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q240872: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: As Good as It Gets (1997). Count them as director (6 films), writer (8 films) instead.

Draws on

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Drawn on by

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Chill Factor (1999): 1 line

  1. 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)

What the speakers said they did

Writing (13) everyone in writing

Directing (6) everyone in directing

Acting (1) everyone in acting

What was said about them, by kind

career (6)

  1. career (career): Lawrence Kasdan → Body Heat. Surprise that the Raiders writer also did the sexy Body Heat.
    “Raiders was written by the guy who did Mumford.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 0:52:49 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Lawrence Kasdan → Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. Kasdan, a cameo in As Good as It Gets, is introduced as the screenwriter of Empire Strikes Back.
    “as the screenwriter of Empire Strikes Back.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · As Good as It Gets with Chris Gethard · 1:36:11 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Lawrence Kasdan → Raiders of the Lost Ark. Kasdan's run: Empire, Raiders, Body Heat, Continental Divide, Jedi, Big Chill.
    “Raiders of the Lost Ark.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:22:10 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Lawrence Kasdan → Continental Divide. He sold Continental Divide to Spielberg; not a good movie but a good script.
    “He sells Continental Divide to Steven Spielberg, which becomes not a very good movie, but apparently was a good script.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:22:12 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. career (career): Lawrence Kasdan → John Hughes. Kasdan's first five years beat Hughes in a screenwriting final.
    “So it's John Hughes versus him in the finals and cast and wins.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:22:26 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. career (career): Geena Davis → Lawrence Kasdan. She later won an Oscar in a Kasdan movie.
    “Who won an Oscar in a Lawrence Castan movie?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:23:54 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): Lawrence Kasdan → Michael Mann. Kasdan never released the cut Costner scene; Mann is doing recuts of Black Hat.
    “who's doing recuts of Michael Mann?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:40:01 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

industry (1)

  1. industry (industry): Robert Zemeckis → Lawrence Kasdan. Grouped with Ron Howard as post-Lucas/Spielberg directors whose later movies became optimistic as they got wealthy; Kasdan fits the arc.
    “Robert Zamechis comes to mind.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:15:03 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (lineage): Lawrence Kasdan → Howard Hawks. Lucas and Spielberg hired Kasdan because they thought he had a Hawksian sensibility, based on his earlier scripts.
    “they think he has a Howard Hoxian sensibility, very fun.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 0:52:13 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

people (2)

  1. people (people): John Bailey → Lawrence Kasdan. Bailey said in an interview that Kasdan largely turned over some of the filmmaking to him.
    “he gave this really great interview where he talked about, like, you know, Kazen largely like turned over some of the filmmaking stuff to him.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:05:41 · Chris Ryan (0.55 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Lawrence Kasdan → Wyatt Earp. Costner teamed with Kasdan for the rival Earp picture.
    “Bowed out, left the project, teamed up with Lawrence Kazden, who was then still pretty red hot.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:04:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Lawrence Kasdan: Hot take: the first five years of Kasdan's career are the greatest screenwriting run in movie history.
    “the 1st 5 years of Kazden's career is the greatest screenwriting run in movie history.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:22:00 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)