Thanks to folks like the MCU, cinematic shared universes are all the rage these days, with
audiences members eating it up faster and faster.
Now, these franchises love to add links and references, specifically to other films the
director has worked on, or maybe even an upcoming sequel in a franchise.
So today on Top 10 Beyond The Screen, I’m going to be counting down our list of the
Top 10 Movies You Won’t Believe Are Connected.
Before we begin though, Be sure to stick around until the end of the video where I’ll be
responding to some of your comments.
Let’s jump in.
10 Spider-Man 2 and The Punisher As we know, big franchises love to have fun
and add links and references to other films in their movies, speifically burying them
for hardcore fans to find.
Now, this one is a relatively minor link, but a link nonetheless.
During the finale of Sam Ramini’s Spider-Man 2, Mary Jane is seen running through the park
in her wedding dress, during which time a creepy dude turns slowly to look at her.
This is actually The Punisher.
Now, legally they couldn’t say it was The Punisher, or invite the actor who played the
Punisher to make an appearance, so instead they used his stunt double.
Pretty cool regardless.
9 Tangled and Frozen Both Tangled and Frozen were mega Disney hits,
massively gaining popularity among children and Disney fans alike.
However, many fans had no idea that the movies are actually connected.
In one scene Frozen, during Elsa’s coronation, you can see, in the background, both Rapunzel
and Flynn wandering around inside the castle.
As well as when Anna sings For the First Time in Forever, you can see the couple walking
through the crowd.
Here’s hoping for a shared Princess Universe in the future, potentially on Disney Plus?
You never know.
8 The Evil Dead and Jason Goes To Hell Now, Jason Goes To Hell was by no means a
good movie, however, it crossed over with arguably one of the greatest movies of all
time, The Evil Dead, so that gives it bonus points.
In Jason Goes To Tell, there is a scene which features the legendary grimoire: The Necronomicon,
which exists within the Evil Dead universe.
Now, the concept of The Necronomicon was originally created by HP Lovecraft, and was used by various
other authors after he gave his blessing, making the evil book a shared universe icon.
At the end of Jason Goes to Hell, Freddy Krueger’s gloved hand grabs at Jason’s Mask before
the credits roll, aka, a precursor to Freddy vs. Jason, another crossover.
There were also talk of a film sequel which would feature Ash, the lead character in The
Evil Dead, battling the two baddies, but sadly, it never occurred...at least not on screen.
There was, however, a comic book titled Freddy vs. Jason bs.
Ash: The Nightmare Warriors.
7 The Lion King and Hercules In Hercules, we saw the demi-god posing for
a painting, he held a sword and a shield while sporting a lion’s pelt as an artist immortalized
him.
However, after a discussion with his hero-trainer he comes upset and tosses the lion pelt onto
the ground.
However, taking a closer look it becomes clear that the lion pelt is that of Scar from The
Lion King.
This is bittersweet -- One, because I don’t believe in cruelty towards animals, but Two,
Scar was an asshole and we all know it.
He deserved this.
6 American Psycho and The Rules of Attraction Any fan of these two movies would have picked
up on the fact that the American Psycho character Patrick Batement, and The Rules of Attraction
Lead Sean Bateman, share the same last name, and that is because they are both brothers.
The movies were actually adapted from Bret Easton Ellis’ novels of the same titles.
Patrick Bateman is of course a serial killer, while Sean is a suicidal drug deal, basically
the worst kind of shared universe siblings ever.
Christian Bale was actually asked to do a cameo scene for Rules of Attraction, unfortunately
he declined.
5 From Dusk Till Dawn and Kill Bill Quentin Tarantino is yet another director
that loves to share universes, and this is what went down in Kill Bill Vol 1.
As we know, Michael Parks plays Texas Ranger Earl McGraw in From Dusk Till Dawn, which
is directed by Robert Rodriguez, a director who frequently works with Tarantino.
He also appeared in Kill Bill Vol 2 which is directed by Tarantino.
Now, while Earl McGraw was shot dead in From Dusk Till Dawn, he still arrived at the murder
scene of the Bride’s Wedding in Vol 1 of Kill Bill.
Not just that, he appeared yet again in Planet Terror and Death Proof.
Yet two more Rodriguez and Tarantino crossovers.
4 Spy Kids and Machete Yep, bizarre, I know.
Now, director Robert Rodriguez surprised everyone when he released Spy Kids back in 2001, a
film which focused entirely on kids training to become spies.
Now, during the film, the kids pay their Uncle a visit, who serves as their reluctant mentor.
Who exactly is their Uncle?
Uncle Machete.
In 2007, a movie about Machete was featured as a fake trailer for the Grindhouse movie,
one of which was directed by Rodriguez, which would eventually become a reality in 2010.
The story was about an angry former federal agent who goes on a quest for revenge, aka,
Uncle Machete from Spy Kids.
3 Unbreakable and Split Thanks to the movie Glass, this movie is of
course an obvious one, but let’s instead travers back to Split.
Director M. Night Shyamalan has never been known for sequels, instead, he loves to make
connections between his movies, specifically Unbreakable and Split.
Unbreakable stars Bruce Willis as David Dunn, a security officer who discovers he’s pretty
much invisible.
On the other hand, we have Split, which features a mentally ill man named Kevin Wendell Crumb
played by James McAvoy who wrestles with 24 personalities, including The Beast, an evil
entity with incredibly strength and can crawl on walls.
The Beast survives to the end and is let loose on the general public -- one of the seated
customers watching the broadcast of the interview, David Dunn.
2 Prometheus and Blade Runner Back in the day, folks were very excited when
it was announced that Ridley Scott was returning to the Alien series with Prometheus, a movie
exploring the origins of The Engineers glimpsed at in the original movie.
Now, although most folks hated Prometheus, I personally enjoyed it, lets the hate comments
ensue.
The movie introduced us to Peter Weyland, the founder of Weyland Corps.
Now, Peter has a God complex, and is determined to meet the race of creatures who created
humanity so they can in turn grant him more life.
A few people may think this story arc sounds familiar, and that’s because it is.
It sounds a whole lot like Roy Batty from Blade Runner, who also seeks out his creator
Tyrell in the hopes of gaining more life.
Now, many fans had previously speculated that Alien and Blade Runner were set in the same
universe, and with Prometheus, Ridley Scott sealed that deal.
This was confirmed upon release of the blu-ray edition of Prometheus, which contained an
easter egg confirming Weyland and Tyrell were once friends and competitors.
Pretty cool.
1 Slither and The Guardians of the Galaxy When James Gunn came along to director Guardians
of the Galaxy it was quite a shock, considering his earlier movies were quite dark and gory.
However, he injected his own personality into it and it well and truly paid off.
He also paid respects to his first movie Slither in the Guardians movie.
As most will know, Slither revolved around a small town being infested by slimy alien
slugs who take people over by entering their mouths.
Gunn, tied this to the MCU a little by giving the slugs a cameo in Guardians.
During the scene where the characters meet The Collector, a few of the slugs can be seen
in a display case in the background.
Pretty damn cool.
Well, there we have it!
Do you guys agree with our list?
Were there any movies that we missed?
Leave us all your thoughts and feelings in the comments down below and perhaps we can
do a part 2.
Before I go though, I just want to respond to a few comments from one of our last videos,
Top 10 Shocking South Park Episodes That Took Things Too Far.
Michael Ross said: “Give us a part 2 Lucy McPhee” — Well, Michael, I’m not sure.
This list triggered a lot of you, and I mean a lot.
David C. Cronk Sr. said: “Lucy not only smiled...she laughed.
Good on you!”
— It was a challenge, but I made it through.
Zappey said: “Ok boomer” — Whoa.
I’ve never been more offended in my life.
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