So-called Easter eggs (i.e. hidden details in movies that reference other movies, other pop culture stuff, or even real events) can now be found in every second movie. Anyone who really wants to understand all the references to Marvel and Spider-Man history in the 2023 animated highlight “Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse” would probably have to invest months of study.
However, in the 2007 post-apocalyptic megahit ‘I Am Legend’, which pits Will Smith, supposedly the last person in New York, against nocturnal vampire monsters, there is a particularly beautiful easter egg that not only (almost) everyone understands immediately – but also anticipates a real development that would only become reality ten years later (!).
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While ‘I Am Legend’ can best be compared in terms of content to modern series such as ‘The Last Of Us’ or ‘The Walking Dead’, this clairvoyant touch is more reminiscent of the cult series ‘The Simpsons’, which in its more than. .. Famous ‘predicted’ all kinds of real events over a period of 30 years – up to the planned re-election of Donald Trump in this year’s US presidential elections, which had already been predicted by Homer Simpson & Co. in 2015:
“I Am Legend,” on the other hand, features none other than the DC event “Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice“expected – and that was almost a decade before director Zack Snyder’s massive production (starring Ben Affleck as Batman and Henry Cavill as Superman) was actually shot.
like you press pause after 7 minutes and 47 seconds, Then you see how the symbols of Batman and Superman are arranged one above the other on a banner in New York’s famous Times Square – which is exactly how, a few years later at Comic-Con, it was announced that the superhero crossover was actually coming :
But while the announcement was met with thunderous applause, a few years later the result turned out to be quite a failure and one of the biggest DC disasters of all time – and not just because of the we-must-work-together-because-our-mothers-are-the-same -his.Having names is nonsense. This is the conclusion of the 2-star FILMSTARTS review: ““
After ‘Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice’ was not well received, but still made its mark at the box office, the follow-up ‘Justice League’ was disappointing across the board – signaling the end of the DCEU in its old form . In October 2022, ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ mastermind James Gunn and top producer Peter Safran were hired to completely recreate the DC universe. “Superman: Legacy,” the first result of this new beginning, is expected to hit theaters in 2025.