It’s all connected! Pixar and the history of surprising film and TV shared universes – WBNews

There are some pretty weird Pixar fan theories out there, including the one about the seminal animation house’s entire canon representing a 65m-year struggle between humans, sentient toys and intelligent animals. But who needs wild stretches of fancy when mischievous animators with far too much downtime have inserted real visual Easter eggs connecting virtually all the studio’s movies? A new Facebook video joins the dots between such unlikely combinations as Brave and Monsters Inc, Finding Dory and Inside Out, and Up and Ratatouille. But if such revelations are not entirely unexpected, here are a few film and TV universes you might never have thought could be so closely linked. ET and Star Wars Star Wars Series (@StarWarsSeries) #STARWARS FACT OF THE DAY: E.T. can be found in “The Phantom Menace” as “Asogians” – a promise made to Steven Spielberg by George Lucas. pic.twitter.com/vBXj9zaNlx October 5, 2016 Steven Spielberg and George Lucas have always been Hollywood best buddies, so it should come as no surprise that the Star Wars creator co-opted the alien race from which ET hails to appear as delegates to the Galactic Senate in 1999’s execrable The Phantom Menace. Dubbed Asogians by a later Star Wars Expanded Universe novelist in tribute to the kindly alien’s stated home planet of Brodo Asogi in the spin-off novel ET: The Book of the Green Planet, three members of the extra terrestrial race are seen waving their fists as Natalie Portman’s Queen Amidala raises the prospect of a vote of no confidence…more detail