The Transporter
These motion-picture show seemingly take part in unlike universes , but there are small-scale and surprising ways they relate to one another . Instead of building massive universe of discourse over these connections , they have been overlooked and forgotten . But they stay fun Easter testis that grant rooter to think about all the interesting implications of these shared stories .
The Transporter (2002) / Collateral (2004)
Action star Jason Statham produce his cock-a-hoop break in the musical style with his starring role inThe car transporter . Statham plays Frank Martin , a skilled pickup driver who is good than anyone at transporting anything from point A to point B.
Spy Kids (2001) / Machete (2010)
Danny Trejo has appeared in more moving-picture show than most actors could even imagine , but probably his most renowned role is as the titular Mexican badass inMachete . Trejo headline his own movie as Machete , but fans might not realize that was not the first pic the character appeared in .
Machete was introduced in an earlierRobert Rodriguezfilm , the class - friendly adventureSpy Kids . Trejo plays Machete , the uncle of the two master kids . Given the very unlike tones of these films , it ’s not surprising most fans did n’t pluck up on this fact .
Ghostbusters (1984) / Casper (1995)
Duringthe Halloween season , many fans will be revisit the darling 1990s take onCasper . This live - action film follows a begetter and girl who move into an old house that is tell to be ghost . In fact , it is the home of the friendly spectre around , Casper .
Near the beginning of the photographic film , the household ’s owners attempt to get rid of the spirits survive in the house . This sets up a cameo by Dan Aykroyd who is seen running from the house in his fullGhostbustersoutfit saying , " Who ya gon na call ? Someone else . "
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) / Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
film producer Steven Spielberg and George Lucas have been skinny friends since betimes in their careers , even makingthe Indiana Jones filmstogether . However , it is still unexpected that they joined two of their most famous plastic film together in a subtle direction .
ThoughStar Wars : Episode 1 - The Phantom Menaceis not a favorite of all sports fan , it does let in a fun cameo . During the astronomical senate scene , aliens resembling the same race as E.T. can be seen among the crowd .
The Italian Job (2003) / Hobbs And Shaw (2019)
It turn out thatThe Transporterwas just the first of Jason Statham ’s career in degraded motorcar movies . He would go on to star alongside Mark Wahlberg in the remake ofThe Italian Job . afterward he would get together theFast and Furiousfranchise as Deckard Shaw .
Statham later teamed with Dwayne Johnson for the spinoff filmHobbs and Shaw . In that film , they visit Shaw ’s garage where he shows off a Mini Cooper railcar he said he used for a job in Italy . This suggests his character in The Italian Job is actually Deckard Shaw .
Happy Gilmore (1995) / Hubie Halloween (2020)
Just in fourth dimension for Halloween , Adam Sandler is back on Netflix with a Modern comedyHubie Halloween . Sandler plays a pocket-sized townsfolk laughingstock trying to keep everyone safe during Halloween . The film packs some great jape beginning with a crowd - delight cameo .
Ben Stillerappears in the first scene playing an hospital attendant at a mental institution . However , Sandler fans instantly recognise the type as being the same neat Stiller played in his cameo inHappy Gilmore . Some say this confirms the forming of the Sandler Cinematic Universe .
Jackie Brown (1997) / Out Of Sight (1998)
The stylish offense filmJackie Brownremains Quentin Tarantino ’s most underrated movies . Pam Grier star in the titular persona as a flight attendant who is caught with smuggling money for her gun dealer boss and decides to start the cops and criminals against each other for her own benefit .
The film is based on the bookRum Punchby Elmore Leonard . The following class , Steven Soderbergh adapted another Leonard bookOut of Sightinto a movie . That film includes a cameo from Michael Keaton as Ray Nicolette , who Keaton played inJackie Brownand who appear in both of Leonard ’s novels .
Jaws (1975) / Piranha 3D (2010)
When progress to a movie about an subaqueous killer creature , it’shard for a film not to pay up homageto Steven Spielberg ’s masterpieceJaws . However , Piranha 3Dtook their court to the next level .
The gloriously over - the - top revulsion movie open up with a scene of a fisherman being eaten by an army of vulture . The fisher is played by Richard Dreyfus who played Matt Hooper inJaws . He is also snip in the same costume and sings the same song featured in that picture show . Though his name is not used , Dreyfus himself confirm the character is Hooper .
Clerks (1994) / Scream 3 (2000)
It is well - acknowledge that Kevin Smith has built his own cinematic universe out of his popular ( and less popular ) films , known as the View Askewniverse . However , his most popular character Jay and Silent Bob also made an show in another very unexpected enfranchisement .
After being usher in in Smith ’s debut filmClerks , Jay and Silent Bob became on a regular basis featured in Smith ’s movies . But for some reasonableness , the characters also seem in a cameo forScream 3which was very jarring .
Shaft (1971) / Django Unchained (2012)
Quentin Tarantino has also built a cinematic macrocosm of his own , link his films in insidious means . Sometimes a supporting character will be featured in multiple movies and sometimes it is just the make of cigarettes being used by the characters . However , he colligate his WesternDjango Unchainedto another classic outside his filmography .
In the picture show , Kerry Washington plays Broomhilda von Shaft , Django ’s wife . Tarantino afterward explained that she and Django would share the name von Shaft which would eventually be abridge to Shaft and generations later , their descendant would be badass detective John Shaft .
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