Jacob Tremblay

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q20965633: 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: The Toxic Avenger (1984); Room (2015); The Death and Life of John F. Donovan (2018); Doctor Sleep (2019); Good Boys (2019); Before I Wake; The Little Mermaid (upcoming live action remake).

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.

The Shining (1980): 6 lines

  1. lineage (sequel) · through Doctor Sleep (2019), which they acted in: The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read). Doctor Sleep is the sequel to Kubrick's The Shining, which is the whole sell and the whole problem.
    “You're doing a sequel to The Shining.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:12:41 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (sequel) · through Doctor Sleep (2019), which they acted in: The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read). Doctor Sleep is the sequel to The Shining.
    “Dr. Sleep, the sequel to, which I feel like is actually a better movie”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:58:43 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (homage) · through Doctor Sleep (2019), which they acted in: The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read). Doctor Sleep has to pay some homage to Kubrick while following a novel whose author hates the film.
    “it has to thread paying some homage to Kubrick”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:14:53 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. lineage (lineage) · through Doctor Sleep (2019), which they acted in: The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read). Doctor Sleep's script threads King's book and Kubrick's film, and addresses King's complaint about what Kubrick changed.
    “It addresses the conflict between Stephen King and what he didn't like about the Kubrick movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 0:46:49 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. lineage (lineage) · through Doctor Sleep (2019), which they acted in: The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read). Doctor Sleep uses grown-up Danny and a new generation, Abra Stone.
    “Using a familiar figure from the original film in Danny, the grown up Danny”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:31:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. lineage (sequel) · through Doctor Sleep (2019), which they acted in: The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read). Doctor Sleep is named as a continuation of The Shining, with the Stephen King thing.
    “There's also Doctor Sleep.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 2:48:12 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Doctor Sleep (King's novel): 1 line

  1. lineage (adaptation) · through Doctor Sleep (2019), which they acted in: Doctor Sleep (King's novel) ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read). The film is an adaptation of King's Doctor Sleep, a bestseller Warner Brothers optioned.
    “Warner Brothers, option the rights, put Akiva Goldsman on it.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:14:23 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

The Shining (King's novel): 1 line

  1. unmapped (restored ending) · through Doctor Sleep (2019), which they acted in: The Shining (King's novel) ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the maker said so: something the speaker read that Flanagan said (his pitch to King)). Flanagan pitched going back to the Overlook as a means to restore the burn-down ending of King's book, which won King over.
    “he said, I'm going to go back to the Overlook, but as means to an end to restore your ending.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:16:33 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Wendy Carlos: 1 line

  1. craft (score reused) · through Doctor Sleep (2019), which they acted in: Wendy Carlos ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read). Doctor Sleep uses the Wendy Carlos Shining score and holds off on it for a long time.
    “Even just the way they use the Wendy Carlos score and hold off on it for a long time.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:16:19 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

Toxic Crusaders (1990): 1 line

  1. lineage (adaptation) · through The Toxic Avenger (1984), which they acted in: The Toxic Avenger ⇒ Toxic Crusaders (the host's read). A kid-friendly cartoon was spun off a transgressive Troma film, and a revival died because the contracts could not be found.
    “Toxic Crusaders, which was the weird Saturday morning version of Toxic Avenger, uh, a movie that is super transgressive and the least child friendly thing in the world.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind with Lulu Wang · 0:18:36 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (10) everyone in acting

What was said about them, by kind

industry (1)

  1. industry (box office draw): Jacob Tremblay → Good Boys. Tremblay is called one of the most consistent box-office performers, pulling Good Boys across the finish line.
    “Trem Play's one of our most consistent box office performers.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 1:54:28 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

unmapped (2)

  1. unmapped (known as): Jacob Tremblay → Room. People can name Tremblay as the kid from Room before they can name Brie Larson.
    “They'll be like, oh, the kid from room.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 1:54:25 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (worked together before): Mike Flanagan → Jacob Tremblay. Flanagan had directed Tremblay before in Before I Wake.
    “You know, he's worked with Tremblay before, because Tremblay isn't before I wake.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:00:59 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Jacob Tremblay: Flanagan quote read aloud: after the harrowing scene Tremblay hopped up, high-fived his dad and got a candy bar from craft services.
    “And then Jacob just hopped up, brushed himself off, high-fived his dad, went and got a candy bar from craft services, and the rest of us couldn't even blink.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:01:31 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)