George Miller

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q446960: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to Happy Feet, which Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber credits them on.

Counted as director, the making department they hold the most credits in. The films the hosts said they directed, which the two lists below run through too: Mad Max (1979); Mad Max 2 (1981); Happy Feet (2006); Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024); Babe: Pig in the City; Lorenzo's Oil; Mad Max (series); The Witches of Eastwick.

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.

Mad Max (1979): 1 line, within their own work

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Mad Max 2 (1981), which they directed: Mad Max ⇒ Mad Max 2 (the host's read). The Road Warrior is the sequel to Mad Max.
    “which is like the sequel to Mad Max.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:07:47 · 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.

Weird Science (1985): 2 lines

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Mad Max 2 (1981), which they directed: Mad Max 2 ⇒ Weird Science (the host's read). The climactic biker-gang sequence is an homage to The Road Warrior with the same actor and makeup.
    “it's pulled right from this movie that had just come out, same actor, same makeup, same everything, they're like doing an homage to it”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:08:03 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft) · through Mad Max 2 (1981), which they directed: Mad Max 2 ⇒ Weird Science (the host's read). The Road Warrior homage is a nine-minute sequence, about 10% of the movie.
    “It comprises 10% of the whole movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:08:58 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

Mad Max 2 (1981): 1 line, within their own work

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Mad Max (1979), which they directed: Mad Max ⇒ Mad Max 2 (the host's read). The Road Warrior is the sequel to Mad Max.
    “which is like the sequel to Mad Max.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:07:47 · Kyle Brandt (0.55 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Directing (9) everyone in directing

What was said about them, by kind

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): George Miller → Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. Miller conveys lore and structure without explaining it, which Lynch could not do.
    “Miller incredibly good at the just like giving you a sense of lore and history and connections and how structures work without needing to have it actually explained.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 1:37:38 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  1. what-if (what-if): George Miller → Dune. Miller, off The Road Warrior, was the one obvious choice in 1984 to direct Dune.
    “there's the one obvious answer who in 1984 would have made sense to do Dune.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 1:36:11 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about George Miller: Next miniseries announced: George Miller, filmography including a Babe sequel, two Happy Feet, four Mad Maxes, Lorenzo's Oil and The Witches of Eastwick.
    “Two happy feet. Four Mad Maxes.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 2:02:09 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)