Joe Eszterhas

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q220834: 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: Jagged Edge (1985); Basic Instinct (1992); Showgirls (1995); Basic Instinct / Joe Eszterhas erotic thriller (as a type).

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.

Babygirl (2024): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Basic Instinct (1992), which they wrote: Basic Instinct ⇒ Babygirl (the maker said so: Halina Reijn, interviewed on the episode). Reijn set out to converse with the 90s and early-2000s sexual thrillers she loved but found sexist.
    “I wanted to be in conversation with all the sexual thrillers that I so loved in the 90s and the early 2000s, but then I also thought were incredibly sexist and not human.”
    The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 2:16:04 · Halina Reijn (0.90 sure it was them)

Body of Evidence (1993): 1 line

  1. theme (genre copy) · through Basic Instinct (1992), which they wrote: Basic Instinct ⇒ Body of Evidence (the host's read). Mid-90s sexy noir all followed Basic Instinct; Madonna's version was a spoof-level bust.
    “That was literally like a basic instinct spoof.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ With Bill Simmons and Van Lathan · 0:22:30 · Van Lathan (0.60 sure it was them)

Color of Night (1994): 1 line

  1. theme (genre copy) · through Basic Instinct (1992), which they wrote: Basic Instinct ⇒ Color of Night (the host's read). Bruce Willis's Color of Night was another Basic Instinct era noir with a famous full-frontal moment.
    “Everyone, remember Bruce Willis did that movie where he showed his penis?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ With Bill Simmons and Van Lathan · 0:21:57 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Writing (4) everyone in writing

What was said about them, by kind

industry (2)

  1. industry (industry): Panic Room → Joe Eszterhas. A record script sale, like Eszterhas's and Shane Black's, which Bill wants a Movie-Reference site for.
    “didn't Joe Esterhouse have that once for basic instinct and him and Shane Black.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:39:27 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. industry (industry): Shane Black → Joe Eszterhas. Black and Eszterhas were in an arms race for the biggest spec-script sales.
    “and he and Ersterhaus, who we've covered, who did show girls in basic instinct, were in this like arms race to see who could sell more scripts for higher amounts of money”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:11:05 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

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