Sam Raimi

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q275402: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as director, the making department they hold the most credits in. The films the hosts said they directed, which the two lists below run through too: Darkman (1990); The Quick and the Dead (1995); A Simple Plan (1998); Spider-Man (2002); Spider-Man 2 (2004); Spider-Man 3 (2007); Drag Me to Hell (2009); Evil Dead (2013); Oz the Great and Powerful (2013); Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022); Send Help (2026); Hudsucker Proxy (named as director of the sequence; probably Hudsucker Proxy by the hosts); Raimi Spider-Man films; Spider-Man (Raimi films); The Evil Dead (series). Count them as writer (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.

Darkman (1990): 1 line, within their own work

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Spider-Man (2002), which they directed: Darkman ⇒ Spider-Man (the host's read). Raimi's Spider-Man strengths start in Darkman.
    “all the stuff that is cool about the Remy Spider-Man movies starts here”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:31:21 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Steve Ditko and Stan Lee: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Spider-Man (2002), which they directed: Steve Ditko and Stan Lee ⇒ Spider-Man (the host's read). Ditko and Lee made Spider-Man a teen hero for younger readers, not yet accepted by the Avengers or Fantastic Four.
    “I mean, like it was Steve, uh, Ditco and Stanley basically making a character that appealed to younger readers.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey (Ep. 108) · 0:09:39 · Micah Peters (0.80 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. lineage (adaptation model) · through A Simple Plan (1998), which they directed: A Simple Plan ⇒ Gone Girl (the maker said so). Flynn used A Simple Plan as her model for adapting her own novel, then worried she could not match it.
    “And she said, so I tried to use that as a model and then I freaked myself out because I was like, well, this is too good. I won't do this well.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl with Esther Zuckerman (Ad-Free) · 0:36:35 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Spider-Man (2002): 1 line, within their own work

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Darkman (1990), which they directed: Darkman ⇒ Spider-Man (the host's read). Raimi's Spider-Man strengths start in Darkman.
    “all the stuff that is cool about the Remy Spider-Man movies starts here”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:31:21 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Directing (22) everyone in directing

Other (3) everyone in other

Writing (1) everyone in writing

What was said about them, by kind

career (3)

  1. career (career): Brian Michael Bendis → Sam Raimi. Bendis says Raimi saw they shared the job of working out Spider-Man.
    “Sam Raimi, uh, smartly figured out that he and I had the same job to to figure out Spider-Man.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 2:42:41 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Sam Raimi → Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. Raimi's frustrated 90s Thor pitch is read as the origin of Hercules on TV, like Darkman after losing The Shadow.
    “So like he really wanted to direct the shadow.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Thor · 0:22:21 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Sam Raimi → Darkman. Raimi wanted to direct The Shadow, was refused, and made Darkman instead.
    “So like he really wanted to direct the shadow.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Thor · 0:22:21 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

craft (5)

  1. craft (craft): Sam Raimi → Spider-Man (Raimi films). Even Raimi's winning-feeling films, like Spider-Man, are mean-spirited.
    “Even the movies that have like a kind of winning feeling like the Spider-Man films”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:49:55 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): Sam Raimi → Drag Me to Hell. Raimi's heroes are put through trying circumstances, from Ash to Alison Lohman.
    “from ash and the evil dead movies all the way through.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:50:02 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. craft (craft): Sam Raimi → A Simple Plan. Raimi repeatedly makes characters' own choices, not the system, the cause of their ruin, as in A Simple Plan.
    “Like in a simple plan, he does this.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:55:16 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. craft (craft): Sam Raimi → The Hudsucker Proxy. Raimi's best movies have one deliberate way each scene could be constructed, with no alternate coverage.
    “there is only one way this scene could be constructed”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:32:10 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. craft (craft): Iron Man → Sam Raimi. The paralyzed-Stark crawling sequence has Raimi's shaky expressive camera and Evil Dead Ash-crawling feel.
    “The sequence feels very Sam Raimi, actually.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 1:47:37 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

industry (2)

  1. industry (industry): Sam Raimi → Kevin Feige. Raimi is a rare hire with a defined style, with hope Marvel will not smother it.
    “Raymi's such a rare example of them hiring a guy who has such a fucking defined thing”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:07:46 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. industry (industry): Chloe Zhao → Sam Raimi. Marvel lets selected auteurs do a bit more while still delivering required content.
    “Sam Raimi because he's like, you know, he's a legend.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:31:28 · Patrick Willems (0.50 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  1. what-if (director hired instead): Spider-Man → Sam Raimi. Sony passed on Fincher and hired Raimi, in keeping with wanting a director with a take.
    “you look at them ultimately hiring Raimi and really letting him go off.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:46:05 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

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