Dark Whimsy Favorites: The Producers
Rick Retro’s Realm, Project #3: 51 Dark Whimsy Favorites in 80 Days, Ranking the Producers.
We’ve added in to our list of Dark Whimsy Favorites the seven A+ Dark Whimsy Christmas favorites that we’ve already reviewed (###). Now we're looking at the list to see what the 58 films have in common.
We’ve looked at the decades they were released in, the nationalities of origin and the production studios.
What about the people involved? Who are our Dark Whimsy creators and stars?
Let's start with the producers:
Producers
1 Ethan Coen 3 (EC)
2 Tim Burton 2 (TB)
-- Denise Di Novi 2 (DDN)
-- Robert Greenhut 2 (RG)
-- John Hughes 2 (JH)
-- Mark Johnson 2 (MJo)
-- Martin Jurow 2 (MJur)
-- Andrew Scheinman 2 (AS)
#3 (1963) The Pink Panther /MJur
#5 (1965) The Great Race /MJur
#14 (1981) Arthur /RG
#19 (1984) The Natural /MJo
#22 (1986) Stand by Me /AS
#24 (1987) Raising Arizona /EC
#26 (1987) The Princess Bride /AS
#27 (1987) Planes, Trains & Automobiles /JH
#28 (1988) Big /RG
### (1989) National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation /JH
### (1990) Edward Scissorhands /TB DDN
### (1993) The Nightmare Before Christmas /TB DDN
#36 (1996) Fargo /EC
#39 (2000) O Brother, Where Art Thou? /EC
#46 (2005) The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe /MJo
Next up... the writers...
Originally posted to text group 2025-01-21
Last updated 2025-02-06