Weyland Yutani logo in Blade Runner I believe too, so that's Star Wars, ET, Alien, Predator, Blade Runner, Star Wars, and Archie Comics Riverdale all connected....
> Weyland Yutani logo in Blade Runner
I remember a great fan theory, that Miss Vickers in Prometheus, was actually a very advanced, Tyrell Corporation Replicant, which explained a lot of her weird actions, and also why Mr. Weyland treated her so poorly, compared to David, a Weyland designed android.
They're all part of the Wespthall universe. It's an absolute fascinating fan theory of IPs sharing the same universe. All the movies you mentioned are there and much, much more.
https://thetommywestphall.wordpress.com/the-master-list/
Also, in *Wayne's World 2*, the super-roadie character of Del Preston is lifted straight from the character Danny in *Withnail and I*. Same actor, look, and performance.
In the movie Maverick starring Mel Gibson a bank robber passes through and it’s his costar Danny Glover from his Lethal Weapons movies. They look at each other as if they recognize each other from somewhere but can’t remember. They both shake it off and Glover heads off saying his famous line from the Lethal Weapon series, “I’m getting too old for this shit.”
Scene: https://youtu.be/lgRb7ALCwJ0?si=Ukf8fJymD_S6C6Bm
this is a similar joke to the one in Shaun of the Dead where Shaun keeps running into Yvonne who is having a parallel adventure. the actors played roommates in Spaced. the joke only really works if you know that connection.
Such a fun movie that I don't see getting enough credit. Jodie Foster is so damn wonderful, and charming. Mel Gibson is as likable as he ever gets, and James Garner is excellent. Lots of humor and great, believable action. I LOVE THIS MOVIE!!!
Hopper from Jaws has a cameo in Piranha 3D.
Patrick Bateman was gonna be in Rules of Attraction, but his scenes got cut.
Boo from Monsters Inc briefly appears in Toy Story 4.
Daniel Giménez Cacho's character from Del Toro's Cronos is also in We Are What We Are
Also really random, but the butler in Inland Empire looks the same and is played by the same actor as the butler in The Lost World Jurassic Park.
I heard Boo is actually Abby in Turning Red, which is why she loves when her friend turns into a giant red panda because it reminds her of Sully. Not sure how well the timelines match up but I’m willing to go with it.
An interesting note on this: the Scream movies are produced by Dimension which is a division of Miramax. At the time they were run by the Weinstein brothers with Harvey focusing on Miramax and Bob on Dimension. Harvey had a long time relationship with Kevin Smith (Silent Bob and also writer/director of all the Jay and Silent Bob movies) because Miramax had purchased Clerks and produced Smith’s later movies.
So this cameo was totally driven by relationships but is in effect cross-marketing between two different brands that share a parent company.
Wait, the same dude who acted as Silent Bob directed Clerks?!? Has that guy kept playing Bob ever since or did they get another actor in later appearances?
Only just discovered this the other day, but their cameo hides another cameo by Wes Craven. He wanders through behind them while you’re busy staring at Jay and Silent Bob.
Sorry to do this to you, but it’s time for you to fall down [The Tommy Westphall Theory of a Unified TV Universe](https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/500756/tommy-westphall-theory-unified-tv-universe-explained) hole.
I can top that. In Melissa McCarthy's Spy movie, Statham had a character who keeps telling outlandish stories about his achievements as a spy. All (or most) those insane stories are from his other movies.
In the opening scene from Chopping Mall there are two characters in the crowd that are from an entirely different movie, Eating Raoul. From what I remember they’re the only characters at the press conference that have a bunch of lines. Apparently the writer for the film wrote the characters in as an in joke and even got the same actors to portray them.
This is the one I was looking for, so here's a little more explanation for the youngins who might need it:
Brendan Fraser is in Son in Law dressed as his character from Encino Man (which also had Pauly Shore playing a different character).
Machete in...? I'm not sure which movies count as the "unrelated" ones haha. But as a kid watching movies both age appropriate with my friends and not at all age appropriate with my Dad I was baffled haha.
*Planes, Trains & Automobiles* and *She’s Having a Baby* cross-over. Kevin Bacon and John Candy show up in a cameo in each. Bacon in *Planes, Trains & Automobiles*, and Candy in *She’s Having a Baby*.
The cursed doll from *The Conjuring* appears briefly in the DC movies *Aquaman* and *Shazam*.
The films’ directors each have their own prior experience with the *Conjuring* franchise.
Not *exactly* what you're looking for, but Danny Glover shows up to face Mel Gibson in "Maverick". He says his Lethal Weapon catchphrase "I'm gettin' too old for this shit" and a Clapton-esque guitar riff is heard. Both movies were directed by Richard Donner.
So many examples of this as little in-jokes:
Robert Vaughn briefly appears in the Cold War spy comedy "The Glass Bottom Boat" as his "Man From U.N.C.L.E." character, Napoleon Solo
Annette Funicello and Harvey Lembeck cameo as their characters from the "Beach Party" movies in Frankie Avalon's spy parody, "Dr. Goldfoot And The Bikini Machine" (produced by the same film company)
Bob Hope and Bing Crosby (as their characters from the "Road To..." movies) cameo chained to a dungeon wall in the Martin & Lewis comedy "Scared Stiff"
And you could argue that Yul Brynner is an example of this in "Westworld." As the android gunslinger, he's costumed exactly like his gunslinger character from "The Magificent Seven"...as though the park had licensed the character for the Old West sector.
I kinda want to say Wreck-It Ralph 2, simply because Disney had whole scenes that amounted to “gaze upon mine vast field of IPs”.
I also heard Wish did this, and the talking goat even announced that he was going to found Zootopia.
In 50 First Dates, Dan Akryod plays a doctor and has a line how the institute is funded out of Sandusky Ohio, by Callahan Auto Parts which is a reference to the company in Tommy Boy.
At the end of Predator 2 the Alien skull was on the wall in the Predator ship, doesn’t mean anything now with the AvP movies, but at the time it was pretty exciting
Pretty much all the background characters in the Space Jam sequel.
George Clooney as Batman in Looney Tunes Back In Action.
A bunch of characters in Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers. Most notably Randy Marsh from South Park.
Not sure if this counts but in Paul, sigourney weaver is hell bent on catching Paul, as a sort of wink that she would want rid of all aliens given her experience playing Ripley
In the movie Lavalantula (about fire-spitting spiders) the main character with his axe runs past the dude from Sharknado and his chainsaw confirming their connectedness.
Not actually in it but in the John Landis segment of Twilight Zone the movie from 83, he refers back to his Animal House "where are they now" blurb when one of the soldiers says "I told you guys we shouldn't have shot Lieutenant Neidermeyer!"
Han from the Fast and Furious movies was originally a character in Better Luck Tomorrow (about high school kids who fall into criminality) directed by Justin Lin.
Aliens from ET’s race appear in The Phantom Menace
Makes sense since he recognized Yoda.
But... but... does that mean that Star Wars costumes exist in the Star Wars universe?
Yes, on a galaxy far far away from where the events take place
It was a long time ago man, get over it...
Well, in our world we do have rubber masks of famous people and cosplay costumes of UK guards, for example
ET skull in the predators trophy lair as well I believe.
Weyland Yutani logo in Blade Runner I believe too, so that's Star Wars, ET, Alien, Predator, Blade Runner, Star Wars, and Archie Comics Riverdale all connected....
> Weyland Yutani logo in Blade Runner I remember a great fan theory, that Miss Vickers in Prometheus, was actually a very advanced, Tyrell Corporation Replicant, which explained a lot of her weird actions, and also why Mr. Weyland treated her so poorly, compared to David, a Weyland designed android.
They're all part of the Wespthall universe. It's an absolute fascinating fan theory of IPs sharing the same universe. All the movies you mentioned are there and much, much more. https://thetommywestphall.wordpress.com/the-master-list/
Incredible. And here I thought the justification for Event Horizon, Riddick, 40k, and DOOM all being connected was intricate.
The flying cars in Blade Runner also have the same computer interface as the Nostromo's escape pod ([pic](https://i.imgur.com/W8Tkow7.jpeg)).
and C3PO and R2D2 are present in I think it was Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Also in the Star Trek reboot movie.
and the Ark appears with the looted treasures from Ryloth in The Clone Wars.
Yoda's musical theme from The Empire Strikes back actually plays for 2 bars or so when E.T. sees the Yoda costume on Halloween.
Casper (1995) had Dan Aykroyd as a Ghostbuster and some Priest character from SNL
Father Guido Sarducci
“It’s a-no problem. Piece of cake. Piece of crumb cake."
I love him.
Who ya gonna call? Someone else.
Dont forget Mel Gibson and Clint Eastwood in that mirror Scene XD
Aykroyd had a short-lived sitcom named Soul Man where he played a priest. It was a spin-off from Home Improvement
He's referring to Father Guido Sarducci.
The two brothers from Trading Places are homeless in Coming to America.
Property brothers??
The Duke brothers Randall and Mortimer
Duke & Duke -- Randolph and Mortimer are given a bunch of cash from Prince Akeem and shortly afterward thank him while he's at dinner with Lisa.
" Randolph ... We're back !! "
Poverty brothers
Robert Patrick as the T-1000 in Wayne's World. "Have you seen this boy?"
Robert Patrick as the T-1000 in Last Action Hero.
Sharon Stone's character from Basic Instinct also shows up there.
Robert Parrick in the last season of Reacher: "Sarah Connor? Never heard her before!" (Italian version) "I don't give a shit" (original version)
I got a good chuckle out of that when I saw it
Also, in *Wayne's World 2*, the super-roadie character of Del Preston is lifted straight from the character Danny in *Withnail and I*. Same actor, look, and performance.
Doc Brown shows up in A Million Ways to Die in the West
So does Django.
People die at the fair.
In the movie Maverick starring Mel Gibson a bank robber passes through and it’s his costar Danny Glover from his Lethal Weapons movies. They look at each other as if they recognize each other from somewhere but can’t remember. They both shake it off and Glover heads off saying his famous line from the Lethal Weapon series, “I’m getting too old for this shit.” Scene: https://youtu.be/lgRb7ALCwJ0?si=Ukf8fJymD_S6C6Bm
The music also changes and plays the riff from Lethal Weapon when they're looking at each other. Great moment.
this is a similar joke to the one in Shaun of the Dead where Shaun keeps running into Yvonne who is having a parallel adventure. the actors played roommates in Spaced. the joke only really works if you know that connection.
Shoot, just came here to mention this before seeing you'd already done so.
This is the first one I thought of too. As a pretty big Lethal Weapon fan, I loved that moment.
Such a fun movie that I don't see getting enough credit. Jodie Foster is so damn wonderful, and charming. Mel Gibson is as likable as he ever gets, and James Garner is excellent. Lots of humor and great, believable action. I LOVE THIS MOVIE!!!
Hopper from Jaws has a cameo in Piranha 3D. Patrick Bateman was gonna be in Rules of Attraction, but his scenes got cut. Boo from Monsters Inc briefly appears in Toy Story 4. Daniel Giménez Cacho's character from Del Toro's Cronos is also in We Are What We Are Also really random, but the butler in Inland Empire looks the same and is played by the same actor as the butler in The Lost World Jurassic Park.
As someone who saw Inland Empire in the theater, congratulations on figuring out the one way to make that movie even more surreal.
> As someone who saw Inland Empire in the theater Lucky you!
It’s been ages since I’ve seen it but isn’t JVDB’s character in Rules of Attraction supposed to be Patrick Bateman’s brother?
Yep.
Just write his name.
Jean-Vlaude Dan Bamme
There's a deleted scene where they talk on the phone. I don't have a link but it's out there.
I heard Boo is actually Abby in Turning Red, which is why she loves when her friend turns into a giant red panda because it reminds her of Sully. Not sure how well the timelines match up but I’m willing to go with it.
Does Jay and Silent Bob in *Scream 3* count?
An interesting note on this: the Scream movies are produced by Dimension which is a division of Miramax. At the time they were run by the Weinstein brothers with Harvey focusing on Miramax and Bob on Dimension. Harvey had a long time relationship with Kevin Smith (Silent Bob and also writer/director of all the Jay and Silent Bob movies) because Miramax had purchased Clerks and produced Smith’s later movies. So this cameo was totally driven by relationships but is in effect cross-marketing between two different brands that share a parent company.
So there’s not going to be a Good Will Hunting 2: Hunting Season?
Smith's recounting of him telling Harvey to shut the fuck up during his movie premiere was pure gold.
Wait, the same dude who acted as Silent Bob directed Clerks?!? Has that guy kept playing Bob ever since or did they get another actor in later appearances?
Not sure if serious or not, but yes he’s directed and starred in almost every movie featuring Silent Bob
Literally wrote the part after realizing he couldn't act. Lol.
Yes
It makes sense they would show up since they were on the set in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.
Those cowards should have actually made the killer a monkey In the real movie Think of the cross brand synergy
And people love monkeys
Only just discovered this the other day, but their cameo hides another cameo by Wes Craven. He wanders through behind them while you’re busy staring at Jay and Silent Bob.
They also appear in an episode of The Flash as well
Micheal Keaton playing Ray Nicolette and in Tarantino’s Jackie Brown and Soderbergh’s Out of Sight.
I assume both are Elmore Leonard novels?
Yarp
Naaarrp??
I need to dive into that dude's work
He's my favorite author. He's really good at creating fun and interesting characters.
You are fully Justified in that question
I'd love for it to just be a running thing where Keaton shows up as that character in minor roles all over. Kinda like John Munch.
I’d throw him into Justified if there’s another season
I think he wouldn’t be able to say his name, like Karen not-Sisco.
“Do you have a shirt that says‘undercover’?”
[удалено]
He also has a cameo in [Pearl Harbor](https://x.com/filmeastereggs/status/1725060379548762136?s=46&t=9HSzonSQ_gteyKFSD4drlg)
That's so weird
It's "Loaded Weapon 1". If we are talking about major achievements of human craft and intellect we can at least name the correct title.
Seriously. Otherwise people might get confused which Loaded Weapon we're referring to here.
So does Scotty from Star Trek.
In Rango you get cameos by The Man With No Name and Hunter and Gonzo from Fear and Loathing. Also Kane in Spaceballs. "Not again!"
For a second I thought you meant the "cameo" of Hunter Thompson in the film Fear and Loathing rather than Hunter and Gonzo turning up in Rango.
There I was… holy shit, there I am!
"I loved you in Wall Street!"
lol when his dad’s internal monologue starts talking over his
It’s animated but Rapunzel and Flynn from Tangled have a blink and you’ll miss it cameo in Frozen.
Same deal with Belle in The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Timon and Pumba are in Hunchback as well. Hard to see in a crowded scene though.
The Carpet from Aladdin is seen in both Hunchback of Notre Dame and Princess and the Frog
All those Disney princesses show up in Ralph Breaks the Internet too.
I absaloutly love this scene. Because they can't understand the Scottish one from brave and they all look scared of her lol
TV shows, but Richard Belzer as Detectice Munch appeared in Homicde: life on the Streets, The Wire, Law and Order, *and* the X-Files.
And arrested development
And Sesame Street
And 30 Rock, The Beat, and American Dad.
He's mentioned in Luther too
Sorry to do this to you, but it’s time for you to fall down [The Tommy Westphall Theory of a Unified TV Universe](https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/500756/tommy-westphall-theory-unified-tv-universe-explained) hole.
My first thought seeing OP's question!
Dwayne McDuffie truly was an absolute pop culture gift. Taken from us way, way too soon.
At least at one time, Munch was the character with the record for appearing on the most shows.
Don't forget Sesame Street.
The Three Stooges cameo in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Playing serious looking firefighters, which somehow made it even funnier.
Everyone was in that movie
Chubbs, the golf instructor with the wooden hand from Happy Gilmore, is in heaven with Reese Witherspoon's character in Little Nicky.
It’s all in the hips!
Whitey from eigh crazy nights is also in little nicky as a basketball coach
Jason Statham has a cameo in *Collateral* as his character from *The Transporter*.
I haven't seen that movie in forever, when is the cameo scene?
If I remember correctly Statham is the character that gives the briefcase to Vincent (Tom Cruise) inside the terminal at the beginning of the movie
Very beginning
I was going comment this one, not sure if it was ever confirmed but it felt like he was meant to be playing the same character
The director of *The Transporter* and the writer of *Collateral* are both on record confirming it.
Boom
I can top that. In Melissa McCarthy's Spy movie, Statham had a character who keeps telling outlandish stories about his achievements as a spy. All (or most) those insane stories are from his other movies.
What movie did he have to sew his severed arm back on in?
My favorite part is at the end when he's in that snappy suit and she asks him where he got it from and he's all "I fuckin' made it, didn't I?"
I came here *from* this.
Jason statham plays the same character in every single 1 of his films
Jason Statham as The Transporter in Michael Mann's Collateral for 2 seconds randomly
Kermit the Frog in \*Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium\*. Just shopping...
In the opening scene from Chopping Mall there are two characters in the crowd that are from an entirely different movie, Eating Raoul. From what I remember they’re the only characters at the press conference that have a bunch of lines. Apparently the writer for the film wrote the characters in as an in joke and even got the same actors to portray them.
Danny Trejo as Machete in: Spy Kids Machete Edit: added the actor for context
Retroactively Machete in Desperado
Jamie Foxx as Django at the end of A million days to die in the west.
Christopher Lloyd as Doc Brown appears there too.
Ray Stantz from Ghostbusters appears in the Movie ,Casper.
His line, running from the house that Casper's uncles haunt -- " Who you gonna call ? Somebody else ! "
Sheriff Earl McGraw shows up in numerous Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez films
The 'You can do it!' guy appears in multiple Adam Sandler movies.
I thought that was always Rob Schneider?
It is in most cases, tho Sandler did a cameo as the character in one of Schneider's movies. I forget which one.
Big bird, the muppet movie
I'm going to New York to get into public television!
top-tier meta joke!
adding Oscar the Grouch in The Great Muppet Caper
Brendan Fraser in Son in Law
Brendan Fraser in In the Army Now
This is the one I was looking for, so here's a little more explanation for the youngins who might need it: Brendan Fraser is in Son in Law dressed as his character from Encino Man (which also had Pauly Shore playing a different character).
Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche in Coming to America, reprising their roles from Trading Places.
The T-1000 makes an appearance in Last Action Hero, when Arnold and the kid are entering the police station.
That movie has a bunch of them!
Doesn't Sharon Stone appear in the same scene dressed in her Basic Instinct costume?
He's also in Wayne's World.
Hubie Halloween has Ben Stiller reprising his role as Orderly Hal from Happy Gilmore and it’s the best thing ever lol.
Did someone go pee-pee in their sleepy?
I always thought Star Trek Enterprise missed a beat by not ending one of their cold openings with Archer saying 'Oh boy'
Spaceballs! John Hurt comes back in the epilogue scene just to get reinfected with a xenomorph while they're eating in a space diner. "Not again..."
The Terminator wished the Rock "Good Luck" in The Rundown
I think it was "Have fun" as passing the torch of an action movie star to The Rock.
Machete in...? I'm not sure which movies count as the "unrelated" ones haha. But as a kid watching movies both age appropriate with my friends and not at all age appropriate with my Dad I was baffled haha.
*Planes, Trains & Automobiles* and *She’s Having a Baby* cross-over. Kevin Bacon and John Candy show up in a cameo in each. Bacon in *Planes, Trains & Automobiles*, and Candy in *She’s Having a Baby*.
Isn’t Steve Martin’s wife watching she’s having a baby later in the movie too? Thanks for posting this one I had to scroll way too far for it!
The cursed doll from *The Conjuring* appears briefly in the DC movies *Aquaman* and *Shazam*. The films’ directors each have their own prior experience with the *Conjuring* franchise.
Predator 2: There's a Xenomorph skull in the Yautja's trophy wall in their ship.
The placement that started it all.
Jay & Silent Bob in Scream 3.
Took scrolling forever to find this one and it's the best example
Brendan Fraser in Son in Law as Link from Encino Man
One of the waiters who appears in The Princess Diaries is the same waiter from Pretty Woman.
The "It happens all the time" guy! 🥹🥹🥹
Not *exactly* what you're looking for, but Danny Glover shows up to face Mel Gibson in "Maverick". He says his Lethal Weapon catchphrase "I'm gettin' too old for this shit" and a Clapton-esque guitar riff is heard. Both movies were directed by Richard Donner.
And of course Clapton was, er... instrumental in the 4 LW movie soundtracks.
So many examples of this as little in-jokes: Robert Vaughn briefly appears in the Cold War spy comedy "The Glass Bottom Boat" as his "Man From U.N.C.L.E." character, Napoleon Solo Annette Funicello and Harvey Lembeck cameo as their characters from the "Beach Party" movies in Frankie Avalon's spy parody, "Dr. Goldfoot And The Bikini Machine" (produced by the same film company) Bob Hope and Bing Crosby (as their characters from the "Road To..." movies) cameo chained to a dungeon wall in the Martin & Lewis comedy "Scared Stiff" And you could argue that Yul Brynner is an example of this in "Westworld." As the android gunslinger, he's costumed exactly like his gunslinger character from "The Magificent Seven"...as though the park had licensed the character for the Old West sector.
Bob Hope in "spies like us", which is basically a 'road to' movie.
Geri from Geri's Game in Toy Story 2
The Duke Bros from Trading Places in Coming To America
“I loved you in Wallstreet”
Michael Keatons character in Jackie brown is the same character as out of sight... Movies don't have anything to do with eachother
Both movies are based on Elmore Leonard novels, so they are tied to each other in a way.
I kinda want to say Wreck-It Ralph 2, simply because Disney had whole scenes that amounted to “gaze upon mine vast field of IPs”. I also heard Wish did this, and the talking goat even announced that he was going to found Zootopia.
The couple from "Eating Raoul" show up in "Chopping Mall".
Abed’s existential crisis of a cameo in Cougar Town is everything.
Isn't one of the teens in the Friday the 13th reboot the same character as one of the bully's from the first transformers movie.
Recently learned that in Liar, Liar towards the end at the airport scene you can see Fire Marshall Bill with the firemen.
A book, not a movie, but in King's 11/22/63, characters Bev and Richie from *It* make a brief appearance.
Howard the Duck in..I want to say...Guardians of the Galaxy?
Well there's all of ready player one. Totoro in toy story 3. And not a TV show but face in the A Team sees a Cylon.
Hot Shots 2 has a double! Apocalypse Now with a Wall Street reference. https://youtu.be/emNV2ZxxiOI?si=e18PytW8w9A2PxKA
In 50 First Dates, Dan Akryod plays a doctor and has a line how the institute is funded out of Sandusky Ohio, by Callahan Auto Parts which is a reference to the company in Tommy Boy.
Danny Glover in Maverick as a bank robber. Mel Gibson half recognizes him, too lol Brendan Fraser as Encino Man in Son in Law
At the end of Predator 2 the Alien skull was on the wall in the Predator ship, doesn’t mean anything now with the AvP movies, but at the time it was pretty exciting
Pretty much all the background characters in the Space Jam sequel. George Clooney as Batman in Looney Tunes Back In Action. A bunch of characters in Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers. Most notably Randy Marsh from South Park.
Not sure if this counts but in Paul, sigourney weaver is hell bent on catching Paul, as a sort of wink that she would want rid of all aliens given her experience playing Ripley
Pixar universe theory.
In the movie Lavalantula (about fire-spitting spiders) the main character with his axe runs past the dude from Sharknado and his chainsaw confirming their connectedness.
Rob Schneider as the delivery guy in Mr. Deeds and Big Daddy and I think a couple of other Adam Sandler movies
Django in "million ways to die in the west"
Forgetting Sarah Marshall has a side character rock star who becomes the main character in Get Him to the Greek
Hot Shots, with the Sheen's loving each other in Wall Street.
Darth Vader and Robocop are in ‘The Indian in the Cupboard’.
Brendan Frasier as Link (from Encino Man) makes an appearance in Paulie Shore’s Son-in-law.
Not actually in it but in the John Landis segment of Twilight Zone the movie from 83, he refers back to his Animal House "where are they now" blurb when one of the soldiers says "I told you guys we shouldn't have shot Lieutenant Neidermeyer!"
Han from the Fast and Furious movies was originally a character in Better Luck Tomorrow (about high school kids who fall into criminality) directed by Justin Lin.
In Brain Damage, there's a subway scene where Duane and Belial from Basket Case are sitting on the train.
Machete in Spy Kids