The Movie Star Playbook: Adam Driver Edition. Plus: Did the Superhero Era Just Die?

Shazam! Fury of the Gods 2023

Opened to $30 million domestic, the third straight superhero miss.

Black Adam 2022

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania 2023

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 2023

The Flash 2023

Not out yet; Tom Cruise reportedly loved an early cut.

Creed III 2023

Already outgrossed Creed II.

Scream VI 2023

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish 2022

The last real kids' movie in theaters, per Matt Singer's tweet.

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves 2023

Sean's pitch: Monty Python and the Holy Grail with $100 million of CGI.

The Super Mario Bros. Movie 2023

Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022

Its Best Picture win as a signal the old studio math is breaking.

Avatar: The Way of Water 2022

Tenet 2020

The last non-Tom-Cruise movie Tom Cruise personally endorsed.

Uncharted 2022

Cited as a video-game adaptation that didn't work.

65 2023

A $91 million original sci-fi swing that opened soft; Sean and Amanda argue it never quite congeals despite a strong premise.

Jurassic Park 1993

Looms over any dinosaur movie made since.

Melancholia 2011

Amanda's read: 65 lifts its planet-in-the-sky shots.

A Quiet Place 2018

Writer-directors Scott Beck and Bryan Woods' script credit, cited as evidence they can actually write.

J. Edgar 2011

His first credit, in arguably the worst Clint Eastwood movie ever made.

Frances Ha 2012

As Lev Shapiro, the same year Girls debuted.

Lincoln 2012

Inside Llewyn Davis 2013

While We're Young 2014

His first of five with Noah Baumbach.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens 2015

Sean: Kylo Ren is the best thing to come out of the sequel trilogy.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi 2017

Paterson 2016

Silence 2016

Martin Scorsese; Amanda still hasn't gotten around to it.

The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) 2017

Logan Lucky 2017

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote 2018

Terry Gilliam's decades-long white whale; Driver effectively funded it.

BlacKkKlansman 2018

First Oscar nomination, as Detective Flip Zimmerman.

The Report 2019

The Dead Don't Die 2019

Marriage Story 2019

Second Oscar nomination. Sean: this was the moment he became "the actor of our generation."

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 2019

Both agree the ending betrays Kylo Ren.

Annette 2021

Leos Carax musical with Marion Cotillard; released by Amazon, barely seen in theaters.

The Last Duel 2021

First of two Ridley Scott movies in one year; theatrical release got squeezed by the pandemic window.

House of Gucci 2021

"Not good, but phenomenal," says Amanda.

White Noise 2022

Sean's most-anticipated of 2022; liked, didn't love.

65 2023

The string's low point at the box office.

Ferrari 2023

Michael Mann, up next.

Megalopolis

Francis Ford Coppola's long-in-development project; Driver's been its most vocal supporter on set.

Heat 2

Rumored casting has Driver in the De Niro role opposite Austin Butler as Val Kilmer's character.

Skyfall 2012

The Javier Bardem mold Sean floats for a hypothetical Driver Bond villain.

The Batman 2022

Robert Pattinson comparison: another Girls-era peer who splits time between art house and franchise work.

Good Time 2017

Okja 2017

Bong Joon Ho's prior English-language swing, floated as a director Driver hasn't worked with yet.

Mickey 17

Bong Joon Ho's next, with Robert Pattinson.

1917 2019

All Quiet on the Western Front 2022

Boston Strangler 2023

Cited for Keira Knightley's much-mocked Boston accent.

Midnight Run 1988

The two-hander model Sean wants for a future Driver comedy.

Barbie 2023

Mentioned only because Connor Swindells, their pick for the next Bond, is in it.

Palm Trees and Power Lines 2022

Her Sundance-premiering debut, grown from a photo series she shot in Southern California; took roughly 100 pitches to get financed.

Napoleon Dynamite 2004

The film that convinced teenage Dack she could make movies like this.

Sleepers 1996

Jonathan Tucker's first credit, as a child actor.

The Virgin Suicides 1999

Another early Tucker role, cited when casting him.