Adam Fields

1 sketch, 2 claims, and 3 fun items attributed to them. What was said about them.

Personality, episode by episode

The Big Picture: 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished (guest)

Producer drawn to realistic teen dialogue in the Hughes mold and surreal Twilight Zone-style twists. He is a hustler who will plant a story to build buzz.

Stances

  • Don't open Sundance; wait until people have seen bad movies
  • Kelly could handle actors despite being a rookie

Humor: Wry, self-aware war stories about the business.

In their words

  • “You want to wait till people have spent 3 days seeing really bad movies, and then your movie starts looking really good.” (0:37:27)
  • “we're not going to waste Xerox money on this script.” (0:25:24)

Their shows' recurring bits

Running bits, not opinions; a critic read aloud is cited, not present.

The Big Picture

Their claims

Showing 1–2 of 2 claims.

  1. craft (craft): Donnie Darko → The Breakfast Club. Fields found Donnie Darko's teen dialogue as realistic as Hughes's dialogue on Breakfast Club.
    “It reminded me of, again, when John Hughes sent me to play for Breakfast Club, that was, like, really incredible dialogue that I thought really captured the the zeitgeist, the kids that age.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:26:00 · Adam Fields (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Adam Fields → Donnie Darko. Fields, an indie producer, got the script and thought he could get it made.
    “I think I can get this made.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:26:27 · Adam Fields (0.90 sure it was them)

Their fun items

Showing 1–3 of 3 fun items.

  1. fun, about Donnie Darko: The script circulated so long it arrived with food stains.
    “So they literally sent me a script that had food stains on a bunch of the pages.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:25:16 · Adam Fields (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Donnie Darko: Fields confirms the trades story was fake, but agents began calling.
    “It was total bullshit.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:28:42 · Adam Fields (0.90 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Donnie Darko: Fields on Sundance: open late, after people have seen bad movies; after the premiere no studio bought it.
    “You never want to open Sundance.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:37:22 · Adam Fields (0.90 sure it was them)