Phil Knight

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q557305: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by of 2 people by that name, the one in film or television.

Counted as other. The films the hosts said they were tied to, which the two lists below run through too: Coraline (2009); Masters of the Universe (2026).

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.

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

  1. lineage (origin) · through Masters of the Universe (2026), which they were tied to as founder of Nike; Travis Knight's father who bought him an animation studio: Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope ⇒ Masters of the Universe (the host's read). He-Man (and the 80s toy boom) was a response to every company having passed on Star Wars merchandising.
    “so much of He-Man and the 80s for toys is a response to every major company passing on Star Wars that Star Wars is the whiff that no one can live down.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 0:23:25 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Tadahiro Uesugi: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Coraline (2009), which they were tied to as Nike founder; disliked the seam lines: Tadahiro Uesugi ⇒ Coraline (the host's read). Coraline's look came from the illustrator Tadahiro Uesugi, whose art Selick brought to life.
    “Coraline, we talk about Toddahiro, Use, Uzuki.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Wendell & Wild · 1:09:39 · unclear (Griffin Newman or David Sims) (0.40 sure it was them)

Thor: Ragnarok (2017): 1 line

  1. lineage (influence) · through Masters of the Universe (2026), which they were tied to as founder of Nike; Travis Knight's father who bought him an animation studio: Thor: Ragnarok ⇒ Masters of the Universe (the host's read). The movie looks inspired by Ragnarok, which gave executives a template of color, weirdness, and joke tone to copy.
    “And it speaks to this movie feels very, um, inspired by Thor Ragnarok to me.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 1:09:02 · unknown (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.

Wendell and Wild (2022): 1 line

  1. unmapped (technique evolution) · through Coraline (2009), which they were tied to as Nike founder; disliked the seam lines: Coraline ⇒ Wendell and Wild (the maker said so: Selick's own statement). Selick turned against slick 3D-assisted look after Coraline and kept seams visible and embraced artifice in Wendell & Wild.
    “He said Coraline was maybe a little too smooth, and he wanted to go a bit backwards and show off the artifice with this movie.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Wendell & Wild · 1:08:37 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Other (2) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

No claims join them to a film or another person.

Fun items about them

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