Sigourney Weaver

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q102124: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Alien (1979); Eyewitness (1981); Deal of the Century (1983); Ghostbusters (1984); Aliens (1986); Gorillas in the Mist (1988); Working Girl (1988); Ghostbusters II (1989); 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992); Alien 3 (1992); Dave (1993); Copycat (1995); Alien Resurrection (1997); The Ice Storm (1997); Galaxy Quest (1999); Avatar (2009); Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021); Avatar: The Way of Water (2022); A Map of the World; Avatar and its sequels; Half Moon Street; Political Animals (TV). Count them as producer (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.

Alien (1979): 3 lines, within their own work

  1. lineage (callback) · through Alien 3 (1992), which they acted in: Alien ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read). The Bishop remains scene echoes the original film's reactivated-android scene.
    “And just kind of a fun throwback to the, uh, original alien thing where you like take the puppet, you kind of get it ready.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 0:58:26 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (callback) · through Alien 3 (1992), which they acted in: Alien ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read). The ending coda replays Ripley's tape from the first film.
    “You play back her tape from the end of the 1st movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 2:07:28 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (sequel / genre shift) · through Aliens (1986), which they acted in: Alien ⇒ Aliens (the host's read). Cameron's sequel to Ridley Scott's film shifted the genre, which raised expectations for any follow-up.
    “some other fucking guy is coming in and making a sequel to Ridley Scott's movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:50:21 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Aliens (1986): 3 lines, within their own work

  1. lineage (sequel) · through Alien 3 (1992), which they acted in: Aliens ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read). Alien 3 opens by wiping out the status quo that ended Aliens.
    “Seconds of this movie, it literally just burns the status quo established at the end of the last one.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 0:21:41 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft) · through Avatar (2009), which they acted in: Aliens ⇒ Avatar (the host's read). Making Aliens (a voiceless monster) is what let Cameron individualize the humans there and flip that in Avatar.
    “I wonder if he hadn't made aliens if he could have arrived at that.”
    The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 1:04:08 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (sequel) · through Alien 3 (1992), which they acted in: Aliens ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read). Alien 3 follows Aliens; watched back to back, Aliens ends on a new family that Alien 3 then kills.
    “you watch aliens and that has this ending of, you know, this new family that has been created.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:30:17 · Matt Singer (0.40 sure it was them)

Sigourney Weaver: 3 lines, within their own work

  1. unmapped (creative input) · through Alien 3 (1992), which they acted in: Sigourney Weaver ⇒ Alien 3 (the maker said so). Weaver's top input was no guns, in reaction to the gun focus of Aliens.
    “She was like, Hollywood's 2 gun obsessed.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 1:07:21 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (creative input) · through Alien 3 (1992), which they acted in: Sigourney Weaver ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read). Weaver insisted on the queen-embryo-inside-her angle.
    “It's a decision that Rip Weaver basically insisted on.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 1:32:35 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (creative input) · through Alien 3 (1992), which they acted in: Sigourney Weaver ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read). Weaver would only do the movie if Ripley died.
    “She would only do the movie if she got to die.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 2:05:45 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)

Alien 3 (1992): 2 lines, within their own work

  1. lineage (sequel undoes ending) · through Alien Resurrection (1997), which they acted in: Alien 3 ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read). Resurrection brings Ripley back as a clone, which undoes Alien 3's chosen death.
    “My nuclear take is bringing her back to life as a clone is more disrespectful than killing, uh, hicks and newt in this movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 2:06:26 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (sequel) · through Alien Resurrection (1997), which they acted in: Alien 3 ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read). Resurrection follows Alien 3, but its Ripley is a different character from the one who died.
    “As much as she was quote unquote resurrected, obviously, that's a different character explicitly.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:24:13 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)

The Wizard of Oz (1939): 2 lines

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Avatar (2009), which they acted in: The Wizard of Oz ⇒ Avatar (the host's read). Avatar is described as a deep Wizard of Oz homage.
    “In case you were wondering, this is a deep wizard of a homage, among other things.”
    The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 0:42:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage) · through Avatar (2009), which they acted in: The Wizard of Oz ⇒ Avatar (the host's read). Avatar is an original story but inspired by Oz and John Ford movies.
    “It's just like hugely inspired by not just the Wizard of Oz, but like lots of John Ford movies”
    The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 0:53:51 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Titanic (1997): 2 lines

  1. career (career) · through Avatar (2009), which they acted in: Titanic ⇒ Avatar (the host's read). Avatar could only be made because Titanic gave Cameron the clout.
    “I'd never have gotten to make it if he hadn't made Titanic.”
    The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 1:09:04 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (verdict) · through Avatar (2009), which they acted in: Titanic ⇒ Avatar (the host's read). Titanic made Cameron so successful that Hollywood let him do anything.
    “needed to have this extraordinary amount of success over these decades to conceive an execute of something so crazy as Avatar.”
    The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 1:45:16 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Vincent Ward: 2 lines

  1. unmapped (unused draft) · through Alien 3 (1992), which they acted in: Vincent Ward ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read). Elements of Ward's wooden-planet monks draft survive in the finished film.
    “But that's where that's the 1st iteration that's that's still represented in there.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 0:25:26 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (concept merged in) · through Alien 3 (1992), which they acted in: Vincent Ward ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read). The film is built from Ward's monk concept pushed together with the prison planet; his only surviving credit is story.
    “they mishing up the monks with the prison planet, they turn the monks into prisoners, but they're kind of religious.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 1:01:11 · David Sims (0.35 sure it was them)

Alien 3 (work print cut): 1 line

  1. industry (changed by studio) · through Alien 3 (1992), which they acted in: Alien 3 (work print cut) ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read). Fox pushed the ox-like creature to become a dog.
    “And yeah, the studio was like, it'll be better if it's a dog”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 0:43:25 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Amblin-era Spielberg films: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021), which they acted in: Amblin-era Spielberg films ⇒ Ghostbusters: Afterlife (the host's read). The kids-and-mom coming-of-age setup reads as Amblin or Ron Howard, though speaker says that is too generous.
    “a bit of an amblin, like Ron Howardy, early Spielberg kind of a movie.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:04:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

An Officer and a Gentleman (1982): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Working Girl (1988), which they acted in: An Officer and a Gentleman ⇒ Working Girl (the host's read). The kiss-and-secretaries-cheer moment is an Officer and a Gentleman homage.
    “And then I had the officer and a gentleman homage when they're kissing and one of the secretaries says, way to go.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 1:13:08 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

David Twohy: 1 line

  1. lineage (origin of the prison planet) · through Alien 3 (1992), which they acted in: David Twohy ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read). Twohy brought the prison-planet concept into the development.
    “Twowey is the one who brings in the prison planet concept, okay?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:56:20 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)

Edgar Rice Burroughs: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Avatar (2009), which they acted in: Edgar Rice Burroughs ⇒ Avatar (the maker said so: Cameron's 1994 80-page treatment). Cameron's Avatar treatment drew on childhood sci-fi reading, Burroughs and Haggard.
    “drawing inspiration from, quote, every single science fiction book that he had read in his childhood, and also Edgar Rice Burroughs, H. Rider Haggard.”
    The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 0:26:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)

Eraserhead (1977): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Alien (1979), which they acted in: Eraserhead ⇒ Alien (the host's read). The gooey animatronic creature work in Alien and later films may trace back to Eraserhead.
    “I mean, the thought that comes to mind is, um, alien.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:29:21 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Ghostbusters (1984): 1 line, within their own work

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021), which they acted in: Ghostbusters ⇒ Ghostbusters: Afterlife (the host's read). Afterlife is a revival of the original series by Ivan Reitman's son, loaded with its mythology.
    “This is Jason Reitman's revivification of his father, Ivan Reitman's famed film series.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:02:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

Goldfinger: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Alien Resurrection (1997), which they acted in: Goldfinger ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read). The newborn alien sucked out the window repeats the Goldfinger ending, but sad.
    “it's the goldfinger ending.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:55:38 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

H.R. Giger: 1 line

  1. craft (design contribution) · through Alien 3 (1992), which they acted in: H.R. Giger ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read). Giger's design work was mostly discarded; the Bambi Burster rod puppet was the main thing of his that ended up in the film.
    “that was apparently the main thing that he had an influence on that actually ended up in the film.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:21:53 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)

John Carter of Mars: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Avatar (2009), which they acted in: John Carter of Mars ⇒ Avatar (the host's read). Avatar reads like a John Carter of Mars style story.
    “Yeah, it's very like John Carter of Mars or whatever.”
    The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 0:26:24 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

John Ford: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Avatar (2009), which they acted in: John Ford ⇒ Avatar (the host's read). Same line: Avatar draws on John Ford films and the history of movies.
    “lots of John Ford movies and you can see like the history of movies”
    The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 0:53:51 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Marvel's Avengers: 1 line

  1. industry (industry) · through Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021), which they acted in: Marvel's Avengers ⇒ Ghostbusters: Afterlife (the host's read). Afterlife and the 2016 film both chase the Marvel model of serialized connected stories to succeed at the box office.
    “trying to recreate what Marvel has done and just that's the only way you have success at the box office now is by latching onto that serialized story.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:10:08 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)

Michael Ovitz: 1 line

  1. industry (super-packaging precedent) · through Ghostbusters (1984), which they acted in: Michael Ovitz ⇒ Ghostbusters (the host's read). Ovitz's famous packaging example: assembling the cast, director and effects on paper and forcing studios to bid, as with Ghostbusters.
    “His famous example of this is that he puts together like Ghostbusters and goes to all of the studios and is like, like, it's on everyone's table, you know, like, start bidding.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Color of Money with Chris Ryan · 0:57:34 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Psycho (1960): 1 line

  1. lineage (homage (scene)) · through Alien 3 (1992), which they acted in: Psycho ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read). Charles Dance's shower-curtain death is read as Fincher's own 'Hitchcock moment', after a cast member said Fincher called it that; the Psycho identification is the speaker's.
    “Fincher would talk to him about his influence and be like, well, this is my Hitchcock moment.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 1:18:07 · Matt Singer (0.35 sure it was them)

Rick Moody's novel: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Ice Storm (1997), which they acted in: Rick Moody's novel ⇒ The Ice Storm (the host's read). Based on Rick Moody's 1994 book; the author cried at the end of a cut and said they got it.
    “It's based on Rick Moody's 1994 book, who saw a cut of it and cried at the end and was like, my God, they got it.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:08:18 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977): 1 line

  1. industry (industry) · through Alien (1979), which they acted in: Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope ⇒ Alien (the host's read). In Star Wars' wake came Alien and Blade Runner rather than more 4-color space operas.
    “the Star Wars Halo effect are like alien.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 1:13:21 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens (2015): 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021), which they acted in: Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens ⇒ Ghostbusters: Afterlife (the host's read). Afterlife does what Force Awakens did, saving the old franchise's greatest hits for the back half.
    “It's basically trying to do the same thing that the Force Awakens did”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:06:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

The Brady Bunch Movie (1995): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Ice Storm (1997), which they acted in: The Brady Bunch Movie ⇒ The Ice Storm (the host's read). Simmons traces a mid-90s wave of 70s nostalgia (Brady Bunch movies, Reality Bites) that led to harder looks like Ice Storm.
    “They make the Brady Bunch movie, which is a parody of the Brady Bunch.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:12:44 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them)

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974): 1 line

  1. lineage (inspiration) · through Alien (1979), which they acted in: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ Alien (the host's read). Chainsaw is what inspired Ridley Scott to make Alien.
    “Texas Chainsaw Basker is what inspired Ridley Scott to make alien.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:51:40 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

Alien 3 (1992): 7 lines, within their own work

  1. unmapped (creative input) · them, directly: Sigourney Weaver ⇒ Alien 3 (the maker said so). Weaver's top input was no guns, in reaction to the gun focus of Aliens.
    “She was like, Hollywood's 2 gun obsessed.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 1:07:21 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (sequel) · through Aliens (1986), which they acted in: Aliens ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read). Alien 3 opens by wiping out the status quo that ended Aliens.
    “Seconds of this movie, it literally just burns the status quo established at the end of the last one.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 0:21:41 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (callback) · through Alien (1979), which they acted in: Alien ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read). The Bishop remains scene echoes the original film's reactivated-android scene.
    “And just kind of a fun throwback to the, uh, original alien thing where you like take the puppet, you kind of get it ready.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 0:58:26 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. unmapped (creative input) · them, directly: Sigourney Weaver ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read). Weaver insisted on the queen-embryo-inside-her angle.
    “It's a decision that Rip Weaver basically insisted on.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 1:32:35 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. unmapped (creative input) · them, directly: Sigourney Weaver ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read). Weaver would only do the movie if Ripley died.
    “She would only do the movie if she got to die.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 2:05:45 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  6. lineage (callback) · through Alien (1979), which they acted in: Alien ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read). The ending coda replays Ripley's tape from the first film.
    “You play back her tape from the end of the 1st movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 2:07:28 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  7. lineage (sequel) · through Aliens (1986), which they acted in: Aliens ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read). Alien 3 follows Aliens; watched back to back, Aliens ends on a new family that Alien 3 then kills.
    “you watch aliens and that has this ending of, you know, this new family that has been created.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:30:17 · Matt Singer (0.40 sure it was them)

Alien Resurrection (1997): 2 lines, within their own work

  1. lineage (sequel undoes ending) · through Alien 3 (1992), which they acted in: Alien 3 ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read). Resurrection brings Ripley back as a clone, which undoes Alien 3's chosen death.
    “My nuclear take is bringing her back to life as a clone is more disrespectful than killing, uh, hicks and newt in this movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 2:06:26 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (sequel) · through Alien 3 (1992), which they acted in: Alien 3 ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read). Resurrection follows Alien 3, but its Ripley is a different character from the one who died.
    “As much as she was quote unquote resurrected, obviously, that's a different character explicitly.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:24:13 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)

Alien: Covenant (2017): 2 lines

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Aliens (1986), which they acted in: Aliens ⇒ Alien: Covenant (the host's read). The shoulder-mounted GoPro cameras are carried over from the Marines in Aliens.
    “which the Marines all have in aliens”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:40:52 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage) · through Aliens (1986), which they acted in: Aliens ⇒ Alien: Covenant (the host's read). The loader and airlock set piece homages the power loader fight in Aliens.
    “But something about this feels closer to the power loader fight.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:55:53 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Pretty Woman (1990): 2 lines

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Working Girl (1988), which they acted in: Working Girl ⇒ Pretty Woman (the host's read). Pretty Woman borrows openly from Working Girl's Cinderella story.
    “It openly steal shit from this movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:08:48 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. programming (programming) · through Working Girl (1988), which they acted in: Working Girl ⇒ Pretty Woman (the host's read). Pairing Working Girl and Pretty Woman as a Cinderella double feature to see what Pretty Woman took.
    “It double Cinderella and then you're watching Purdue Woman seeing all the things they took.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 2:05:09 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Aliens (1986): 1 line, within their own work

  1. lineage (sequel / genre shift) · through Alien (1979), which they acted in: Alien ⇒ Aliens (the host's read). Cameron's sequel to Ridley Scott's film shifted the genre, which raised expectations for any follow-up.
    “some other fucking guy is coming in and making a sequel to Ridley Scott's movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:50:21 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Avatar (2009): 1 line, within their own work

  1. craft (craft) · through Aliens (1986), which they acted in: Aliens ⇒ Avatar (the host's read). Making Aliens (a voiceless monster) is what let Cameron individualize the humans there and flip that in Avatar.
    “I wonder if he hadn't made aliens if he could have arrived at that.”
    The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 1:04:08 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Captain America: The First Avenger (2011): 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Aliens (1986), which they acted in: Aliens ⇒ Captain America: The First Avenger (the host's read). The frozen-find cold open structurally echoes the discovery sequence that opens Aliens.
    “this is also actually very similar to is the opening of aliens.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:10:43 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Firefly (TV): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Alien Resurrection (1997), which they acted in: Alien Resurrection ⇒ Firefly (TV) (the host's read). The Betty's space-pirate crew reads as proto-Firefly, Whedon's later show.
    “I mean, some proto firefly stuff.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:31:00 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021): 1 line, within their own work

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Ghostbusters (1984), which they acted in: Ghostbusters ⇒ Ghostbusters: Afterlife (the host's read). Afterlife is a revival of the original series by Ivan Reitman's son, loaded with its mythology.
    “This is Jason Reitman's revivification of his father, Ivan Reitman's famed film series.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:02:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

Jason Reitman: 1 line

  1. people (people) · through Ghostbusters (1984), which they acted in: Ghostbusters ⇒ Jason Reitman (the host's read). Reitman has said he wants to honor his father's franchise; Jason was on set of some of the originals.
    “Jason Reitman was on the set of some of these movies”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:16:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Jed Kurzel: 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Alien (1979), which they acted in: Alien ⇒ Jed Kurzel (the host's read). Kurzel's score uses Jerry Goldsmith's notes from the first Alien but is its own thing.
    “it uses a lot of the Jerry Goldsmith notes”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:47:50 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Jurassic Park (1993): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Alien Resurrection (1997), which they acted in: Alien Resurrection ⇒ Jurassic Park (the host's read). Aliens caged and taunted while hunting you feels like the raptors; raptors may be Alien rip-offs.
    “the raptors have a bit of an alien rip off vibe, honestly”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:46:01 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Neill Blomkamp's unmade Aliens sequel: 1 line

  1. lineage (unmade sequel) · through Aliens (1986), which they acted in: Aliens ⇒ Neill Blomkamp's unmade Aliens sequel (the host's read). Blomkamp's unmade film would have followed Aliens directly.
    “an alien sequel that was a direct aliens sequel and ignoring everything that came after it”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 0:32:21 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)

Outland (1981): 1 line

  1. contrast (contrast) · through Alien (1979), which they acted in: Alien ⇒ Outland (the host's read). Outland tries to be Alien and does not connect; it is not as bad as The Black Hole.
    “it's not as bad as black hole, but it's it's trying, it's trying to be alien and it's not, it's just not connecting.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 3:16:53 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.50 sure it was them)

Pixels (2015): 1 line

  1. unmapped (tonal model) · through Ghostbusters (1984), which they acted in: Ghostbusters ⇒ Pixels (the host's read). Pixels is called a Ghostbusters knockoff, with Adam Sandler trying to do Ghostbusters with Chris Columbus.
    “Hixels is Ghostbusters.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 1:48:24 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

RoboCop (1987): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Avatar (2009), which they acted in: Avatar ⇒ RoboCop (the host's read). The robot-waking sequence is beat for beat the first act of Avatar, down to testing the new body's powers.
    “It is crazy actually how much this sequence is like beat for beat, the Avatar, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:38:34 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Species (1995): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Alien (1979), which they acted in: Alien ⇒ Species (the maker said so). Giger thought Species ripped off too many other alien movies, such as the chest-burster.
    “He thought the movie ripped off too many other alien movies”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:12:56 · Bill Simmons (0.30 sure it was them)

Swingtown (TV): 1 line

  1. programming (programming) · through The Ice Storm (1997), which they acted in: The Ice Storm ⇒ Swingtown (TV) (the host's read). Swingtown tried to tap the key party idea but belonged on Cinemax.
    “That show has to be on Cinemax.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:50:18 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Alien (1979), which they acted in: Alien ⇒ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (the host's read). Ripley stripped to underwear at the end is a vulnerability beat that Miasma echoes.
    “Yes, it is echoed in Teenage Tech”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 0:47:57 · Adam Nayman (0.50 sure it was them)

The Devil Wears Prada (2006): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Working Girl (1988), which they acted in: Working Girl ⇒ The Devil Wears Prada (the host's read). Working Girl sprinkled its DNA over later beloved movies, Pretty Woman and Devil Wears Prada chief among them.
    “And it's just sprinkling DNA over all these beloved movies over the next 40 years, but those were Pretty Woman and Devil wears Prada were the 2 that I was like, oh, yeah.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:13:35 · Joanna Robinson (0.40 sure it was them)

The Lego Batman Movie (2017): 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Galaxy Quest (1999), which they acted in: Galaxy Quest ⇒ The Lego Batman Movie (the host's read). The Phantom Zone security system gets the Galaxy Quest joke: who would ever build this?
    “It's like the Galaxy Quest joke of like, why would this ever be your security system?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:49:34 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)

Working Girl (1990 NBC series): 1 line

  1. programming (programming) · through Working Girl (1988), which they acted in: Working Girl ⇒ Working Girl (1990 NBC series) (the host's read). Working Girl became a 1990 NBC series, with Sandra Bullock as Tess.
    “Working Girl became an NBC series in 1990”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 1:11:10 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Producing (1) everyone in producing

Acting (48) everyone in acting

Other (1) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (5)

  1. career (career): Sigourney Weaver → Gorillas in the Mist. Her mid-80s run: Ghostbusters, Aliens, Gorillas in the Mist, Working Girl, Ghostbusters II, all in a row.
    “Ghostbusters, aliens, gorillas in the mist, working girl, Ghostbusters, two, basically all in a row.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:24:43 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Sigourney Weaver → Dave. Weaver's Dave is a favorite of hers besides Alien and Aliens, and a mirror image of her Working Girl character.
    “I think that's my favorite Sigourney Weaver other than alien and aliens.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:28:10 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Sigourney Weaver → Aliens. 1988 was her peak juice, two years after Aliens and just before Ghostbusters II.
    “It's 2 years after aliens.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 1:37:31 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): James Cameron → Sigourney Weaver. Cameron elevated Sigourney Weaver.
    “He elevated Sigourney, even.”
    The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 0:21:13 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. career (career): Sigourney Weaver → Political Animals (TV). Weaver played a Hillary Clinton-like figure on the miniseries Political Animals, which Griffin was on.
    “Sigourney was essentially Hillary.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:21:25 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)

craft (3)

  1. craft (craft): Sigourney Weaver → Alien Resurrection. Her height is why the basket shot in Alien Resurrection is believable.
    “this is why it's believable when she lands that basket, an alien resurrection.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:30:00 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): Sigourney Weaver → Super Mario Bros.. Weaver's reptilian Ripley 8 is like Dennis Hopper's Bowser.
    “it's a pretty similar take to Dennis Hopper's Bowser.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:24:30 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. craft (craft): Sigourney Weaver → Aliens. Weaver redefines Ripley in each film: throw it out, ball it up.
    “It's so telling that each of the 4 movies, she's like, throw it out, ball it up, redefine my character, give me new shit.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:05:37 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (lineage): Sigourney Weaver → Alien. Both the Working Girl role and the Alien role were originally written for a man.
    “the screenwriter said that her role was originally written as a man, which is true for her role in alien as well.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:27:04 · Joanna Robinson (0.60 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (people): Kevin Kline → Sigourney Weaver. They played the president and first lady four years earlier (in Dave) and here are a 70s adultery couple.
    “who played the president and the 1st lady 4 years earlier”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:51:02 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)

unmapped (3)

  1. unmapped (creative input): Sigourney Weaver → Alien 3. Weaver's top input was no guns, in reaction to the gun focus of Aliens.
    “She was like, Hollywood's 2 gun obsessed.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 1:07:21 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (creative input): Sigourney Weaver → Alien 3. Weaver insisted on the queen-embryo-inside-her angle.
    “It's a decision that Rip Weaver basically insisted on.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 1:32:35 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (creative input): Sigourney Weaver → Alien 3. Weaver would only do the movie if Ripley died.
    “She would only do the movie if she got to die.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 2:05:45 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)

what-if (3)

  1. what-if (what-if): Sharon Stone → Sigourney Weaver. Casting Stone instead of Weaver would not work because Stone reads as a vixen, not a believable suburban housewife.
    “Sigourney Weaver works because she's obviously very attractive in this movie, but is still like believable as a suburban housewife”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:03:23 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. what-if (what-if): Ridley Scott → Sigourney Weaver. Before Prometheus there was a moment when Ridley seemed to be considering a Sigourney return.
    “there was a moment where it felt like Ridley was considering doing a thing with Sigourney.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:24:40 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. what-if (what-if): Sigourney Weaver → Avatar and its sequels. A speaker guesses Weaver will play the mother tree in the sequels.
    “My thought is she's playing the tree.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 1:13:23 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Sigourney Weaver: Her ski-trip hospital bed lingerie and thigh highs: a character that would not exist in a movie anymore.
    “This is like a character that would not exist in a movie anymore.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:24:51 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Sigourney Weaver: She was eight months pregnant when the Newt dummy was made, so they measured only her head and shoulders; she made the film six months after her first child was born.
    “When they made the dummy, Sigourney was like 8 months pregnant.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:36:11 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Sigourney Weaver: The Ripley 8 tattoo: she's the 8th clone, the first one to take.
    “She's the 1st one to take.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:23:50 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Sigourney Weaver: Ripley 8's reptilian, T-Rex-armed performance is compared to Bowser.
    “Yes, she's doing like T-Rex arms.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:24:20 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Sigourney Weaver: Griffin met Weaver on Political Animals: she introduced herself at lunch and was impossibly tall and gracious.
    “Like she does look like a Greek god.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:23:53 · Griffin Newman (0.90 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Sigourney Weaver: Weaver would not let toys be made with guns for years; Resurrection was the only time, and no collector figure for 15 years after.
    “one of the key reasons was because she didn't want her action figures coming with guns.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:44:51 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about Sigourney Weaver: Lee told her to skip looking in on the kids: too ashamed.
    “no, no, no, too ashamed.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 1:00:51 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)