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 director. The films the hosts said they directed, which the two lists below run through too: The Big Chill (1983); Silverado (1985); The Accidental Tourist (1988); Wyatt Earp (1994); Grand Canyon; I Love You to Death. Count them as writer (8 films), actor (1 film) 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.

Return of the Secaucus 7: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Big Chill (1983), which they directed: Return of the Secaucus 7 ⇒ The Big Chill (the host's read). Called a precursor to The Big Chill.
    “precursor to this movie, Socaucus 7 is like this.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:05:04 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

10 Years: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Big Chill (1983), which they directed: The Big Chill ⇒ 10 Years (the host's read). Another reunion-with-a-great-cast attempt that did not match The Big Chill.
    “I kind of like 10 years.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:05:20 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Beautiful Girls (1996): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Big Chill (1983), which they directed: The Big Chill ⇒ Beautiful Girls (the host's read). Named among the later films that tried and failed to be the Big Chill for a new generation, along with About Alex.
    “I remember beautiful girls tried in the mid 90s and there's a movie called About Alex and the mid 2010s.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:04:50 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Bill Clinton: 1 line

  1. theme (theme) · through The Big Chill (1983), which they directed: The Big Chill ⇒ Bill Clinton (the host's read). EW's 15th anniversary review blamed The Big Chill for soundtrack albums, 30-something, and Bill Clinton.
    “Hell, blame the big show for Bill Quinton.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:29:42 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Hometown (TV series): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Big Chill (1983), which they directed: The Big Chill ⇒ Hometown (TV series) (the host's read). The Big Chill was adapted as a short-lived 16-episode TV series called Hometown in 1986.
    “As the short-lived series hometown?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:11:06 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Reality Bites (1994): 1 line

  1. theme (theme) · through The Big Chill (1983), which they directed: The Big Chill ⇒ Reality Bites (the host's read). Reality Bites is the young-person reaction to the sold-out generation The Big Chill depicts.
    “And then that's why like reality bites hits and you see reality bites and you're like, oh, that's why Troy is like, fuck everything.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:12:44 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

The Intervention: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Big Chill (1983), which they directed: The Big Chill ⇒ The Intervention (the host's read). Another indie friends-weekend film in the same vortex.
    “There was a movie called The Intervention.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:05:24 · unknown (0.40 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)