Close Encounters of the Third Kind's R2D2 Easter Egg

Keen Star Wars fans will probably know of the famous deal between George Lucas and Steven Spielberg in which they swapped 'points' on Star Wars and Close Encounters. It led to Speilberg making millions of dollars off Star Wars.

Lucas and Spielberg were actually very good friends and they actually went on to make four Indiana Jones films together.

Given their friendship, Speilberg out a Star Wars Easter egg in his movie. An upside down R2D2:

Pretty cool. Spielberg went on to make several Star Wars references in his films with Lucas. The first Indiana film, Raiders of the Lost Act also had a sneaky C3PO and R2D2 hidden in the hieroglyphs.

The name of the club in Temple of Doom was 'Club Obi Wan' and in E.T. a child was dressed as Yoda for Halloween. Lucas returned the nod in The Phantom Menace when he showed a whole group of E.T. in the Senate!

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