Chris Columbus

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q75079: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to Pixels, which Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber credits them on.

Counted as writer. The films the hosts said they wrote, which the two lists below run through too: Gremlins (1984); The Goonies (1985). Count them as director (7 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.

Steven Spielberg: 1 line

lineage (lineage) · them, directly: Steven Spielberg ⇒ Chris Columbus (the host's read). The closest Hughes and Spielberg crossed was Spielberg protege Chris Columbus directing Home Alone.
“Chris Columbus was a Spielberg protégé and he ended up directing Home Alone.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:26:38 · Kyle Brandt (0.55 sure it was them)

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 (7) everyone in directing

director, Harry Potter (first film) (Blank Check with Griffin & David, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman)
director, Pixels (Blank Check with Griffin & David, Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber)
director, Jingle All the Way (Blank Check with Griffin & David, Planet of the Apes with Matt Singer)
director (Spielberg protege), Home Alone (The Rewatchables, ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt)
director, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (The Rewatchables, ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin)
director, his debut, Adventures in Babysitting (Blank Check — Patreon, Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free))
director, Harry Potter (first film, per Rickman's diary) (Blank Check — Patreon, 2010: The Year We Make Contact)

Writing (3) everyone in writing

writer, Gremlins (The Big Picture, The 1990 Movie Draft)
writer, Gremlins (Blank Check — Patreon, Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free))
writer, The Goonies (Blank Check — Patreon, Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free))

Other (2) everyone in other

director (tested ape skiing), Planet of the Apes (Blank Check with Griffin & David, Planet of the Apes with Matt Singer)
director attached to an earlier unmade version, Five Nights at Freddy's (Blank Check — Patreon, The Killer with Marie Bardi (Ad-Free))

What was said about them, by kind

career (1)

career (cursed project): Chris Columbus → Jingle All the Way. Columbus tested ape skiing and then left to make Jingle All the Way.
“It's like Columbus drops out to make jingle all the way.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Planet of the Apes with Matt Singer · 0:49:47 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

lineage (lineage): Chris Columbus → Steven Spielberg. The closest Hughes and Spielberg crossed was Spielberg protege Chris Columbus directing Home Alone.
“Chris Columbus was a Spielberg protégé and he ended up directing Home Alone.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:26:38 · Kyle Brandt (0.55 sure it was them)

people (2)

people (people): Gremlins 2: The New Batch → Chris Columbus. Chris Columbus is named with the first film's makers.
“Chris Columbus.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:13:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
people (writer then director): Chris Columbus → Gremlins. Columbus wrote Gremlins and The Goonies before directing Adventures in Babysitting.
“And he wrote The Goonies, right?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 2:15:24 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

None.