Movies that you feel are connected in some way

[Gingerbread Demon]

OK this should be fun as we do have a lot of movie lovers here. Movies that are filmed in different years, or even years apart that you think are connected despite the fact they may have had different directors and made by different studios.


I'll start this off with one of my favourite movies Sneakers. It's a fun ride and a fun caper movie about these people that get their hands on a device that lets them literally hack anything online.

This movie was made in 1992 but it's still so much fun..

OK 2022 and I saw the movie The 355 and central to that movie was a device that did much the same thing as the one in Sneakers. They even went to the trouble of making the prop for the device with a chip that looked suspiciously like the one from that movie in the middle of the device.


Also there is a fan theory that Marry Poppins and It are the same creature.
https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a29189813/mary-poppins-returns-pennywise-fan-theory-disney-it/


OK your turn guys what movies do you think share connections?

 

[theenglish]

There is the theory that The Rock is connected to the Sean Connery Bond movies.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

There is the theory that The Rock is connected to the Sean Connery Bond movies.

That is a long standing one yes I like that one too

 

[Gaith]

A Knight's Tale is a Fast & Furious film. William Thatcher, the protagonist played by Heath Ledger, is a direct ancestor of Brian O'Conner, and I will joust with and dismount anyone who says otherwise.

I also like to think of The Warriors as a prequel to Escape from New York.

 

[Mage]

I'd have to look up all the details, but there are theories and thoughts on how the Bladerunner universe and Alien universe could mesh together.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

A Knight's Tale is a Fast & Furious film. William Thatcher, the protagonist played by Heath Ledger, is a direct ancestor of Brian O'Conner, and I will joust with and dismount anyone who says otherwise.

I also like to think of The Warriors as a prequel to Escape from New York.

I don't mind either of those being true

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Peter Hyam's HIgh-Noon-in-Space flick "Outland" has been suggested to be set in the Alien universe.

 

[theenglish]

I have always thought that ET and Close Encounters should be in the same universe.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I have always thought that ET and Close Encounters should be in the same universe.

Well ET or one of his friends appears in Star Wars in the senate scene so there's that even.

But yes I would love to think that ET and close encounters are indeed connected.

As for Outland it fits, it really does fit.

 

[Set Harth]

I'd have to look up all the details, but there are theories and thoughts on how the Bladerunner universe and Alien universe could mesh together.

 

[the G-man]

I have always thought that ET and Close Encounters should be in the same universe.

Same here. It really felt like ET was, in fact, an accidental castaway from the CE3K visitation.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Peter Hyam's HIgh-Noon-in-Space flick "Outland" has been suggested to be set in the Alien universe.

So Con-Amalgamate is really Weyland-Yutani? That could work.

Speaking of which, W-Y turns up in at least one episode of Firefly so it looks like that show is also set in the Alien universe (pity we didn't get to see Mal or Jayne fighting Xenos ).

 

[DarrenTR1970]

I also like to think of The Warriors as a prequel to Escape from New York.

Walter Hill, the director of The Warriors has addressed this. I've read an interview where he said he spoke with John Carpenter at some point in the intervening years about the two movies being set in the same universe and John gave his unofficial/tacit approval.

In that same vein, I like to think that Assault on Precinct 13 is also set in the same universe as Warriors and New York; with Assault being set at the early stages of the increase in crime/violence with the gangs uniting in L.A., then spreading to New York.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

The movie Psycho and an episode of The Outer Limits are connected.

I don't have my guide handy, but in one episode written by Joseph Steffano, who also wrote Psycho, a character advices a couple not to stay at a hotel down the road because it has a nasty reputation after some unpleasant business occurred there a few years ago. This was Steffano's nod to Psycho.

 

[Set Harth]

Speaking of which, W-Y turns up in at least one episode of Firefly so it looks like that show is also set in the Alien universe (pity we didn't get to see Mal or Jayne fighting Xenos ).

I did not know that!!

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ I think it's a flashback to the battle of serenity valley, one of the weapons Mal is using has a Weyland-Yutani logo on it.

And now I REALLY want to see Jayne or Mal fighting xenos.

 

[Sketcher]

Wasn't Stargate supposed to be tied to Independence Day at one point?

 

[Avro Arrow]

Saw a fan theory on YouTube that claimed that Snowpiercer was a sequel to--I kid you not--Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

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And of course there is also the more famous theory that all the Pixar movies are interconnected.

 

[Greg Cox]

As a kid, I was sure that Mary Poppins and Dr. Lao (from THE SEVEN FACES OF DR. LAO) knew each other, since they seemed to have the same M.O.: enigmatic magical being rolls into town, changes lives for the better, that vanishes back to wherever they come from. Used to imagine Mary and Lao comparing notes on their latest magic do-gooder missions.

And I was also convinced that the transporters on STAR TREK were based on the pioneering work of David Hedison in the original 1958 version of THE FLY. Used to worry about a fly getting into the transporter beam with Captain Kirk . . ...

 

[Nerys Myk]

I used to imagined that a lot of British children's fiction took place in the same universe. Mary Poppins, Doctor Dolittle, Peter Pan and the like. I was also pretty sure Bert from Mary Poppins and Mathew Mugg from Doctor Dolittle were the same guy.