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 writer. The films the hosts said they wrote, which the two lists below run through too: Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995). Count them as director (15 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.

No line says they, or a film of theirs, drew on anything.

Drawn on by

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

No line says anything drew on them or a film of theirs.

What the speakers said they did

Directing (22) everyone in directing

director, Spider-Man (Blank Check with Griffin & David, The Last Temptation of Christ with Jamelle Bouie)
director of the Toby Maguire trilogy (called 'the Remy trilogy'), Spider-Man 2 (Blank Check with Griffin & David, After Hours with Alison Sivitz)
director, Spider-Man (Blank Check with Griffin & David, Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis)
director, Spider-Man 2 (Blank Check with Griffin & David, Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis)
director, Evil Dead (Blank Check with Griffin & David, Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis)
director, Oz the Great and Powerful (Blank Check with Griffin & David, Judging The Judge)
director, Send Help (The Big Picture, The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’)
director, Drag Me to Hell (The Big Picture, The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’)
director, The Evil Dead (series) (The Big Picture, The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’)
director, Spider-Man (Raimi films) (The Big Picture, The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’)
director, A Simple Plan (The Big Picture, The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’)
director, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (The Big Picture, The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’)
director, Darkman (The Big Picture, The 1990 Movie Draft)
director, Raimi Spider-Man films (Blank Check — Patreon, Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free))
director Sony hired, Spider-Man (Blank Check — Patreon, Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free))
director, The Quick and the Dead (Blank Check — Patreon, Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free))
director, A Simple Plan (Blank Check — Patreon, The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free))
director, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (Blank Check — Patreon, Marvel Nerdfest)
director, Spider-Man 3 (Blank Check — Patreon, Marvel Nerdfest)
director, Hudsucker Proxy (named as director of the sequence; probably Hudsucker Proxy by the hosts) (Blank Check — Patreon, Marvel Nerdfest)
director, Darkman (Blank Check — Patreon, Thor)
director, Spider-Man 2 (Blank Check — Patreon, Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free))

Other (3) everyone in other

director (cancelled Spider-Man 4), Spider-Man (The Big Picture, The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims)
wanted to direct Thor in the 90s, Thor (Blank Check — Patreon, Thor)
stylistic comparison, Iron Man (Blank Check — Patreon, Iron Man)

Writing (1) everyone in writing

creator-adjacent, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (Blank Check — Patreon, Thor)

What was said about them, by kind

career (3)

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)
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)
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)

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)
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)
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)
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)
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)

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)
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)

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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