# "From the people that brought you..." game **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [July 20, 2013, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-people-that-brought-you-game/664020 "2013-07-20T10:21:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2013, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-people-that-brought-you-game/664020/1 "2013-07-20T10:21:28Z")
It’s a common tagline in movie promotions. They’ll say the current movie they’re promoting is “from the people that brought you…” and then list some popular or prestigious past movie that somebody in the current movie worked on. _[21 & Over](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0Rlzcff7xt4/UKA0RgERKcI/AAAAAAAAACU/fiSF3KLXGn8/s400/21%2Band%2Bover%2Bmovie%2Bposter.jpg)_: From the writers of _The Hangover_ _[Oblivion](http://urbanhonking.com/regarding/files/2013/07/oblivion-poster.jpg)_: From the director of _Tron: Legacy_ and the producer of _Rise of the Planet of the Apes_ _[After Earth](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WduQESL8e3o/UTlKUMs8gSI/AAAAAAAB0Q4/TgyC9weXXMM/s400/will+after+earth+11dec12.jpg)_: From the director of _Unbreakable_ _[The Lone Ranger](http://www.johnnydeppweb.com/gallery/albums/userpics/34202/01~15.jpg)_: From the producer of _Pirates of the Caribbean_ So the game here is to reverse it. Take a good or popular or critically acclaimed movie and give it a tagline from a credit that one of the filmmakers would like to forget. Or is just jarring from the image of the current movie. The only rules are it has to be someone prominent in the movie - no picking out minor co-stars or crew members. And it has to be a movie that had already been made - no making fun of _The Sixth Sense_ by pointing out the same guy also directed _The Last Airbender_. To start: _Iron Man 3_: From the producer of _Elektra_ _Life of Pi_: From the director of _Hulk_ _Lincoln_: From the producers of \*_batteries not included_ and _Innerspace_ _World War Z_: From the star of _The Mexican_ _Zero Dark Thirty_: From the writer and director of _Blue Steel_ ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2013, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-people-that-brought-you-game/664020/2 "2013-07-20T14:29:51Z")
_The Empire Strikes Back_: From the creators of _The Star Wars Holiday Special_. ---
**Author:** ![Kimble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kimble/32/19185_2.png) [@Kimble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimble)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2013, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-people-that-brought-you-game/664020/3 "2013-07-20T15:00:11Z")
_Amélie_: From the director of _Alien: Resurrection_ _Finding Dory_: From the writer and director of _John Carter_ ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2013, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-people-that-brought-you-game/664020/4 "2013-07-20T17:41:42Z")
_The Lion King_: From the studio that brought you _The Black Cauldron_ and _Oliver & Company_ ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2013, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-people-that-brought-you-game/664020/5 "2013-07-20T20:08:09Z")
The Da Vinci Code: Based on the novel, The Da Vinci Code. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2013, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-people-that-brought-you-game/664020/6 "2013-07-21T01:52:54Z")
_Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone_, from the producer of \*Monkeybone \*and _Jingle All The Way_. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2013, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-people-that-brought-you-game/664020/7 "2013-07-21T02:20:20Z")
I can’t find it now, but a Facebook friend posted a photo of a local theater sign that said… **MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING** From the writer of four episodes of Roseanne (Said friend is a poster here as well, if she sees this, maybe she’ll post it here for us. It was pretty funny). ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2013, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-people-that-brought-you-game/664020/8 "2013-07-21T13:44:10Z")
_ **Argo** _, from the star of _ **Gigli** _! _ **Avatar** _, from the director who gave us _ **Pirhana 2: The Spawning** _! ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2013, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-people-that-brought-you-game/664020/9 "2013-07-21T14:04:21Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > I can’t find it now, but a Facebook friend posted a photo of a local theater sign that said… > **MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING** > From the writer of four episodes of Roseanne > > (Said friend is a poster here as well, if she sees this, maybe she’ll post it here for us. It was pretty funny). Maybe it wasn’t a local theater, just found [this picture](http://static02.mediaite.com/geekosystem/uploads/2013/06/joss-roesanne-640x360.jpg) online. ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2013, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-people-that-brought-you-game/664020/10 "2013-07-21T14:51:38Z")
_True Grit_, from the team that brought you the remake of _The Ladykillers_ ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2013, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-people-that-brought-you-game/664020/11 "2013-07-21T17:37:28Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > _ **Avatar** _, from the director who gave us _ **Pirhana 2: The Spawning** _! Maybe I should have made that _ **Titanic** _, the newest great oceanic epic from the maker of _ **Pirhana 2** _! _ **The Hurt Locke** _r, from the director of _ **Blue Steel** _ and _ **Near Dark** _. _ **Gosford Park** _, from the genius who gave us _ **O.C. and Stiggs.** _ ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2013, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-people-that-brought-you-game/664020/12 "2013-07-21T17:46:36Z")
_The Godfather_: From the writer and director of _The Bellboy and the Playgirls_ ---
**Author:** ![Dave\_Hartwick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@Dave\_Hartwick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dave_Hartwick)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-people-that-brought-you-game/664020/13 "2013-07-22T01:14:45Z")
> [@](#): > > It was a meeting of the agency’s top people to find an advertising theme for Panasonic, a major new Japanese electronics firm. Suddenly the new $50,000-a-year creative supervisor leapt to his feet in a frenzy of simulated inspiration. “I’ve got it!” he cried, “I see this big headline: FROM THOSE WONDERFUL FOLKS WHO GAVE YOU PEARL HARBOR!“ I wonder how that guy would’ve pitched Bayer, IG Farben, or Volkswagen. ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-people-that-brought-you-game/664020/14 "2013-07-22T03:07:54Z")
“Saving Private Ryan” from the director of “1941” (Chosen because they’re both WWII movies) ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-people-that-brought-you-game/664020/15 "2013-07-22T13:41:36Z")
_Howard the Duck_ from the people who brought you _Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith_ and vice versa. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-people-that-brought-you-game/664020/16 "2013-07-22T15:55:24Z")
Phantom of the Opera: From the composer that brought you “Jeeves” ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2013, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-people-that-brought-you-game/664020/17 "2013-07-23T16:19:07Z")
_ **Platoon** _, from the writer and director of _ **The Hand.** _ ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2013, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-people-that-brought-you-game/664020/18 "2013-07-23T16:30:27Z")
_ **Glengarry Glen Ross** _, from the cinematic giant who gave us Madonna’s _ **Whos’ That Girl?** _ ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2013, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-people-that-brought-you-game/664020/19 "2013-07-23T16:43:04Z")
_ **Doubt** _: based on the prize-winning play by the writer of _ **Congo** _! ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2013, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-people-that-brought-you-game/664020/20 "2013-07-23T19:57:16Z")
_Dances with Wolves_: From the star of _Waterworld_ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-people-that-brought-you-game/664020.md?page=2)