Movie people love a good Easter egg, and in these days of shared movie universes it’s hard to find a film that doesn’t have a few of them. But one of our favourites is when a character from a completely different movie or franchise crosses over into another movie universe.
We’re not talking sequels or specifically shared universes (like Ant-Man in Captain America: Civil War), more the cheeky blink-and-you’ll-miss-it cameos that are there for the fans.
Here are our top stealth movie crossovers.
1. Jay and Silent Bob in Scream 3
The ViewAskew-niverse’s iconic stoners played by Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes pop up in the third part of Wes Craven’s slasher satire series. In a bit of mega-metaness, they’re getting a tour of the Stab studio and they spot Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox), who they mistake for news anchor Connie Chung.
Returning the favour, Wes Craven played himself in a cameo in Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back.
2. Doc Brown in A Million Ways to Die in the West
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Great Scott! Back to the Future‘s mad scientist Doc Brown gets a brief appearance in Seth MacFarlane’s not-very-good comedy A Million Ways to Die in the West. Doc is in a barn tending to the DeLorean when MacFarlane’s farmer pokes his head in. It’s a reference to BTTF3, which, you will recall, is set in the old-timey cowboy days.
3. Ray Stantz in Casper
“Who you gonna call? Someone else…” Dan Aykroyd’s ghostbuster makes a brief appearance in full costume with proton pack in this family spook caper. He’s just been chased out of the house by three irritating ghouls more annoying, it’s implied, than even Slimer.
4. Rapunzel in Frozen
Disney movies are packed to the rafters with Easter eggs from other Disney movies – in fact there’s such a thing as Pixar Theory, which links all the Pixar movies together into one universe. We’ve chosen just one crossover for now, and it counts because it’s so subtle that it’s not meant to be an official cameo.
Rapunzel and Flynn pop up in Arendelle for Elsa’s coronation, though they can only be seen from behind.
There’s even a theory that Frozen, Tangled and Tarzan are all linked (Anna and Elsa’s parents get shipwrecked on the way to Flynn and Rapunzel’s gaff, they wash up in the jungle, give birth to Tarzan and then get killed). At least one of Frozen‘s director favours this theory.
5. Randolph and Mortimer Duke in Coming to America
The wealthy antagonists of Trading Places, who make a bet before manipulating and swapping the fortunes of Eddie Murphy’s Valentine and Dan Aykroyd’s Winthorpe, return for a different Eddie Murphy joint.
By the end of Trading Places the tables are turned and the Duke brothers are bankrupt. Then in Coming to America, they’re back. Though Murphy takes on a different role, in a brief cameo we see Randolph and Mortimer living homeless on the street till Murphy’s Prince Akeem gives them a wad of cash. “We’re back!” Randolph exclaims.
6. Frank Martin in Collateral
This is a slightly cheeky one, since the character is never named, but we’re pretty convinced that Jason Statham’s cameo in Michael Mann’s Tom Cruise-fuelled crime thriller is as his character from The Transporter. We see him trade cases with Cruise in an airport, having ‘Transported’ one there. He’s basically a kick-ass courier.
7. ET in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
George Lucas sneakily included his pal Steven Spielberg’s ET aliens in the first of his dreary Star Wars prequels, The Phantom Menace. The ‘Asogians’ can be seen in the corner of the screen getting incensed with the rest of the Senate over the film’s hopelessly convoluted plot, although it’s unclear whether ET himself is present.
8. Han in Better Luck Tomorrow
A character so beloved that they completely screwed with the Fast and Furious timeline just so they could bring him back in more movies: you can get even more mileage out of Sung Kang’s street racer if you accept Justin Lin’s claim that his 2002 movie Better Luck Tomorrow is an unofficial sequel to the hit franchise, with Kang playing Han again.
(The film actually came out before Han’s Fast & Furious: Tokyo Drift debut, which means that now we’re actually messing around with the real world’s timeline. What fun!)
9. The T-1000 in Wayne’s World
Wayne Campbell is just driving along (badly) and minding his own business when he’s pulled over by a cop. But it’s not a cop – it’s a shapeshifting Terminator looking for John Connor! Does that mean that Wayne’s World and Terminator are set in the same universe? Which would mean that the non-existent third Wayne’s World film didn’t happen because of Judgment Day….
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