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  • Part of the movie 2001 was in Star Wars

    From mummycullen@mummycullen@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (MummyChunk) to alt.fan.starwars on Wed Mar 18 09:37:30 2026
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    One of the coolest "blink-and-you-miss-it" references in The Phantom Menace isn't even Star Wars. It's Kubrick. In the scene where Qui-Gon is bargaining with Watto in Mos Espa, the camera briefly pans across the scrap-filled yard, and sitting among the junk is the EVA Pod from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

    It's the exact same iconic white pod associated with Dave Bowman on the Discovery One, only here it's treated like worthless Tatooine debris.

    And this wasn't some accidental prop reuse. Lucas and the ILM art team placed it deliberately as a tribute. 2001 raised the bar for what science fiction could look like years before Star Wars changed pop culture, and this little background cameo feels like a quiet salute from one landmark sci-fi universe to another.


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  • From Your Name@YourName@YourISP.com to alt.fan.starwars on Thu Mar 19 10:03:16 2026
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    On 2026-03-18 13:37:30 +0000, MummyChunk said:

    One of the coolest "blink-and-you-miss-it" references in The Phantom
    Menace isn't even Star Wars. It's Kubrick. In the scene where Qui-Gon
    is bargaining with Watto in Mos Espa, the camera briefly pans across
    the scrap-filled yard, and sitting among the junk is the EVA Pod from
    2001: A Space Odyssey.

    It's the exact same iconic white pod associated with Dave Bowman on the Discovery One, only here it's treated like worthless Tatooine debris.

    And this wasn't some accidental prop reuse. Lucas and the ILM art team placed it deliberately as a tribute. 2001 raised the bar for what
    science fiction could look like years before Star Wars changed pop
    culture, and this little background cameo feels like a quiet salute
    from one landmark sci-fi universe to another.


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    There is a ton of stuff that ILM put into the backgrounds of various
    scenes in the Star Wars movies. Some of them are listed at <https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Easter_egg_(virtual)>

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  • From Daniel@me@sc1f1dan.com to alt.fan.starwars on Mon Mar 23 18:09:12 2026
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    Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> writes:

    On 2026-03-18 13:37:30 +0000, MummyChunk said:

    One of the coolest "blink-and-you-miss-it" references in The Phantom
    Menace isn't even Star Wars. It's Kubrick. In the scene where
    Qui-Gon is bargaining with Watto in Mos Espa, the camera briefly
    pans across the scrap-filled yard, and sitting among the junk is the
    EVA Pod from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
    It's the exact same iconic white pod associated with Dave Bowman on
    the Discovery One, only here it's treated like worthless Tatooine
    debris.
    And this wasn't some accidental prop reuse. Lucas and the ILM art
    team placed it deliberately as a tribute. 2001 raised the bar for
    what science fiction could look like years before Star Wars changed
    pop culture, and this little background cameo feels like a quiet
    salute from one landmark sci-fi universe to another.
    View the attachments for this post at:
    http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=702663781#702663781

    There is a ton of stuff that ILM put into the backgrounds of various
    scenes in the Star Wars movies. Some of them are listed at <https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Easter_egg_(virtual)>

    Yeah it was always done as a nod or salute. Nothing unusual or
    unacknowledged.
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