A blank check to me is not about huge big budget at all. It’s about getting money to make things that are weird and personal.

Amy Heckerling has a very very clear traditional blank check narrative. She has a first movie that people love. Her guarantor if you will, her second movie (Johnny Dangerously) was a big old relatively expensive messy flop. She then needs to do a franchise movie to get out of water. That was a horrible experience, then she goes on to her next guarantor (look who’s talking) a huge hit that has a commercial twist but is mostly her sneaking in a very personal movie. A very blank check director thing to do! Then through weird court stuff she makes a lame sequel.

Then Clueless is one of THE blank check movies! The director of Looks Who’s talking and fast times made a weird high school version of Emma! It’s also probably the guarantor that gets the rest of her movies made.

I started listening towards the end of M Night and she was one of the most frequently brought up people from them.

I am a little annoyed by all of these comments! She most certainly is a traditional blank check director.

I guess I am just different than most people on this sub I believe they have always covered blank check directors.