Tom Stoppard

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q294773: 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: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990). Count them as writer (2 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

Writing (3) everyone in writing

screenwriter, Empire of the Sun (Blank Check with Griffin & David, Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri)
uncredited rewrites, Star Wars: Attack of the Clones / Revenge of the Sith (Blank Check with Griffin & David, Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri)
screenwriter, Empire of the Sun (The Big Picture, Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57))

Directing (2) everyone in directing

director, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (Blank Check with Griffin & David, Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri)
director (won the Golden Lion over Angel), Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (Blank Check with Griffin & David, An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens)

What was said about them, by kind

people (1)

people (people): Empire of the Sun → Tom Stoppard. Stoppard's screenplay is praised as literate and morally ambiguous.
“I find the screenplay by Tom Stopper to be the most, one of the more literate and intriguing and ambiguous, morally ambiguous screenplays that Spielberg's directed.”
The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:15:20 · Chris Ryan (0.85 sure it was them)

unmapped (2)

unmapped (screenwriting): Tom Stoppard → Empire of the Sun. Stoppard became the sole credited writer and said it taught him where dialogue is unnecessary.
“I learned a lot working on that in terms of like where you don't need dialogue.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 1:08:11 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (authorship): Tom Stoppard → Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. Stoppard directed the film version of his own play, which won at Venice.
“And he directed he directed the film version of it too.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 1:10:08 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

None.