Robert Zemeckis

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q187364: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as other. The films the hosts said they were tied to, which the two lists below run through too: Jurassic Park (1993); Nirvana the Band the Show the Movie; Pinocchio. 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.

Alien Resurrection (1997): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Jurassic Park (1993), which they were tied to as director (rumored pitch for Jurassic Park): 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)

Michael Crichton: 1 line

  1. unmapped (adapted) · through Jurassic Park (1993), which they were tied to as director (rumored pitch for Jurassic Park): Michael Crichton ⇒ Jurassic Park (the host's read). Named among the Crichton adaptations they could do another time.
    “we would not do Jurassic Park”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 0:18:30 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Robert Zemeckis: 1 line, within their own work

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Nirvana the Band the Show the Movie, which they were tied to as homage target: Robert Zemeckis ⇒ Nirvana the Band the Show the Movie (the host's read). The film is an homage to Zemeckis at a very granular level (transcribed 'Roberts and Mechis').
    “the whole movie is like an homage to Roberts and Mechis.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 0:19:34 · 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.

A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001): 2 lines

  1. unmapped (template) · through Pinocchio, which they were tied to as named as the only one who could get Pinocchio right: Pinocchio ⇒ A.I. Artificial Intelligence (the maker said so: Kubrick to the short story writer (Brian Aldiss), as the speaker tells it). Kubrick told the short story writer he wanted to combine the story with Pinocchio, per the speaker.
    “he was like, I want to take your story and combine it with Pinocchio.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:30:27 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (technology showed it was possible) · through Jurassic Park (1993), which they were tied to as director (rumored pitch for Jurassic Park): Jurassic Park ⇒ A.I. Artificial Intelligence (the host's read). The speaker says Kubrick, who first asked Spielberg to build a robot, saw Jurassic Park and reconsidered.
    “And then he sees Jurassic Park and he's once again like, well, wait a second.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:31:56 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Anaconda (1997): 1 line

  1. lineage (ripple effect) · through Jurassic Park (1993), which they were tied to as director (rumored pitch for Jurassic Park): Jurassic Park ⇒ Anaconda (the host's read). Anaconda is called the final lapping of the Jurassic Park creature-feature wave.
    “that's like the final lapping of the Jurassic Park ripple, sort of washing up on the beach.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:37:19 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Jurassic World (2015): 1 line

  1. unmapped (misreading) · through Jurassic Park (1993), which they were tied to as director (rumored pitch for Jurassic Park): Jurassic Park ⇒ Jurassic World (the host's read). Spielberg's line that the T-Rex is the hero of Jurassic Park was taken too literally by Trevorrow in Jurassic World.
    “Which Colin Trevor took way too literally in making Jurassic World.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:08:10 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Jurassic Park (1993), which they were tied to as director (rumored pitch for Jurassic Park): Jurassic Park ⇒ Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (the host's read). The sequels are a spinoff of Spielberg's imagination though he only executive produces them.
    “even though he's just an executive producer on those movies, it is this interesting spinoff of his imagination.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:08:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

Nirvana the Band the Show the Movie: 1 line, within their own work

  1. lineage (lineage) · them, directly: Robert Zemeckis ⇒ Nirvana the Band the Show the Movie (the host's read). The film is an homage to Zemeckis at a very granular level (transcribed 'Roberts and Mechis').
    “the whole movie is like an homage to Roberts and Mechis.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 0:19:34 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997): 1 line

  1. lineage (sequel-comparison) · through Jurassic Park (1993), which they were tied to as director (rumored pitch for Jurassic Park): Jurassic Park ⇒ The Lost World: Jurassic Park (the host's read). The hosts judge the sequel as normalizing the dinosaurs too fast and dropping the wonder-before-terror structure of the original.
    “This movie normalizes the dinosaurs way too much.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:03:46 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Twister (1996): 1 line

  1. industry (industry) · through Jurassic Park (1993), which they were tied to as director (rumored pitch for Jurassic Park): Jurassic Park ⇒ Twister (the host's read). Marketing a disaster around unknown leads follows Jurassic Park, where Sam Neill and Laura Dern were known but not famous.
    “coming off of Jurassic Park where it was like Sam Neil and Laura Dern were like well-known, but not famous.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:53:21 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Directing (9) everyone in directing

Other (4) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

industry (1)

  1. industry (industry): Robert Zemeckis → Lawrence Kasdan. Grouped with Ron Howard as post-Lucas/Spielberg directors whose later movies became optimistic as they got wealthy; Kasdan fits the arc.
    “Robert Zamechis comes to mind.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:15:03 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

lineage (2)

  1. lineage (lineage): Nirvana the Band the Show the Movie → Robert Zemeckis. The film is an homage to Zemeckis at a very granular level (transcribed 'Roberts and Mechis').
    “the whole movie is like an homage to Roberts and Mechis.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 0:19:34 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage): Oliver Stone → Robert Zemeckis. Alex Ross Perry views Stone as the only real successor to Zemeckis in bracket terms.
    “who I view as the only real successor to Demi and Zameckis.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:34:34 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)

people (2)

  1. people (people): Who Framed Roger Rabbit → Robert Zemeckis. Roger Rabbit is Zemeckis's early-90s film.
    “of course, Robert Zamekis's movie from the early 90s”
    The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey (Ep. 108) · 0:19:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): A Christmas Carol → Robert Zemeckis. The box office quiz answer, a 2009 holiday film in a director miniseries, is Zemeckis' A Christmas Carol.
    “Zameck is a Christmas Carol.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 1:55:01 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

programming (1)

  1. programming (programming): Robert Zemeckis → Nancy Meyers. Eclectic careers (Zemeckis) tend to help in March Madness, while Meyers is more consistent.
    “I think people vote for a weird eclectic career to a certain degree”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:19:04 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)

theme (1)

  1. theme (theme): Oliver Stone → Robert Zemeckis. Stone's reclamation might be coming like Zemeckis's late-career surge, but too early.
    “Stone might be due for a reclamation at some point”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:36:55 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (technology spectacle): David Fincher → Robert Zemeckis. Button was Fincher's version of a Zemeckis project, going back to the Gump comparison.
    “But this was his kind of Zamecasi going back to the Forrest Gump thing.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:52:24 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Robert Zemeckis: Box office game: Marie's guess the 2009 holiday answer is Polar Express is wrong, it is A Christmas Carol.
    “Zameck is a Christmas Carol.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 1:55:01 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)