00:00 A strange thing came over me, some almost different voice.
00:04 Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the most eerily accurate predictions that stars made about their, others, and society's trajectory.
00:12 I'll have to get back to you later about Jurassic Park 4.
00:20 Number 10. Found footage. Bruce Willis.
00:24 In 1993, footage filmed on the set of Pulp Fiction, Bruce Willis anticipated even riskier independent filmmaking.
00:31 He said that within five years, a hit movie would be made on video and a meager budget of $60,000.
00:37 Someday in the next five years, some of us will throw one of these and make a feature film.
00:41 Oh, I know!
00:42 Five years later, Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez made a horror mockumentary with an initial budget of around $60,000.
00:48 Some 17-year-old kid's gonna make this killer, drop-dead, poorly lit video movie.
00:56 The Blair Witch Project became a box office and pop cultural sensation, inspiring a movement of low-budget, high-grossing horror movies made to look like found footage.
01:05 It seems like Willis was the first person to have faith in the new genre.
01:08 Too bad he was too expensive and recognizable to be in any found footage movies himself.
01:12 It's gonna be... Oh, I agree with you. It's gonna cost about $60,000.
01:18 While many Saturday Night Live talents have bright futures, Jimmy Fallon made an oddly specific assumption as a freshman feature performer in 1998.
01:30 Beware of the ghosts of host future.
01:32 Jimmy Fallon?
01:34 On an SNL holiday special in 1998 satirizing A Christmas Carol, Fallon takes Alec Baldwin to December 12, 2011, where Fallon's a big enough star to host the show himself.
01:43 Apparently, I've become a huge star in the future, and I host the show in the year 2011.
01:49 Flash forward to December 17, 2011, Fallon returns to SNL as host and a talk show icon.
01:55 He was only off by five days, apparently not realizing that December 12 would be a Monday.
01:59 He also didn't anticipate rebranding from casual wear to his signature suits.
02:03 Otherwise, Fallon's vision was remarkably accurate.
02:06 It's so great to be back here on Saturday Night Live. This is where it all started for me.
02:10 Rishi Kapoor and Vinod Khanna were lifelong Bollywood idols.
02:22 And yet in 2017, Kapoor reported on Twitter that was mostly contemporaries in the industry who attended his friend's funeral.
02:28 Citing the perceived indifference of younger generations, the disgruntled actor said that he didn't expect a real turnout at his own funeral.
02:35 Three years later, Kapoor was laid to rest with only close family and friends attending the ceremony.
02:39 His colleague's absence wasn't out of disrespect, though.
02:49 He died of cancer under coronavirus lockdown ordinances in India, which limited capacity at funerals.
02:54 Like Khanna, Kapoor will always be remembered as an icon of his industry.
02:58 Sadly, unfortunate circumstances still realized his vision of an improper send-off.
03:03 The tragedy of this is that when the song was completed, when we saw, he took away all the credit also of the bloody song.
03:10 Are you bringing us down? Because you know what? I have enough frequent flyer miles to get a non-stop out of here.
03:18 Dawson's Creek's Katie Holmes broke a lot of hearts with her 2003 engagement to Chris Klein.
03:23 Interestingly, in a 2004 interview for Seventeen magazine, Holmes remarked that she once imagined marrying Tom Cruise.
03:29 Well, the following year, Klein was out, and Holmes was engaged to Cruise.
03:34 She probably should have been careful with what she wished for.
03:39 In 2012, Holmes and Cruise ended their volatile six-year marriage in a bitter divorce.
03:44 Since then, revelations about the Church of Scientology meddling in Cruise's personal life have led some to believe that Holmes' prophecy was no coincidence.
03:56 Whether faded or orchestrated, the celebrity love story of Holmes' dreams wasn't built to last.
04:01 Chris Rock poked fun at O.J. Simpson's apparent flippancy over his acquittal in his double homicide case in the 1997 premiere of his HBO talk show.
04:20 The opening skit ends with Rock showing a fictional video by Simpson, titled "I didn't kill my wife, but if I did, here's how I'd do it."
04:27 In the following years, Juice found public resurgence in spoofing theories that he did kill Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.
04:41 This culminated in the 2007 hypothetical book titled "If I Did It - Confessions of the Killer."
04:46 It wasn't the exact title posited on the Chris Rock show. It certainly wasn't a VHS tape.
04:51 But Rock's nailing Simpson's disturbing rebrand still shows how ahead of the curve he can get.
04:56 When The Empire Strikes Back was first released, the revelation of Luke Skywalker's parentage was explosive.
05:13 "The Force is with you, young Skywalker."
05:16 But maybe not so much for regular readers of the San Francisco Examiner in 1978.
05:21 In an interview with David Prowse, Vader's physical actor, proed for information about Star Wars' highly anticipated sequel,
05:27 Prowse facetiously predicted Vader and Luke engaging in an epic lightsaber duel before Vader revealed himself to be Luke's father.
05:33 "I am the father."
05:35 At the time, Empire was in an early scripting phase that didn't feature this twist.
05:40 With the movie's climax ultimately playing out exactly as described, maybe George Lucas and Lawrence Kasdan took the tip.
05:46 We can only hope that Prowse didn't intentionally drop the movie spoiler of a generation.
05:50 "Join me, and together we can rule the galaxy as father and son."
06:05 Chris Pratt started making a name for himself as Andy Dwyer on the sitcom Parks and Recreation.
06:10 Although Dwyer is a galaxy away from Star-Lord, the path to that point may have actually started with a behind-the-scenes featurette for season 2 of Parks and Rec.
06:17 Pratt filmed himself pretending to text Steven Spielberg, desperate to cast him in Jurassic Park 4.
06:22 The bit was meant to spoof the ego of a breakout star.
06:24 "I'll have to get back to you later about Jurassic Park 4."
06:31 But in 2015, Pratt starred as Owen Grady in Jurassic World, the fourth installment in the blockbuster franchise.
06:37 Okay, Spielberg wasn't directly involved in that production.
06:40 The Jurassic World trilogy nonetheless confirmed Pratt as a bankable Hollywood action star.
06:44 Even he shrugged off this fate five years earlier.
06:47 "Easy."
06:49 "I'm not going to hurt you."
06:52 The Doors frontman Jim Morrison had a revolutionary impact on music in his brief 27 years.
07:09 With his instinct for innovation, he apparently had a sense for music's future.
07:13 In a 1969 interview for Rolling Stone, he said that technology like Moog synthesizers would lead one-man orchestras out of the basement and into concert halls.
07:21 Moog music would soon help develop downsized electric keyboards.
07:24 By the turn of the '90s, advanced effects and sampling gave way to electronic dance music.
07:41 The genre allowed solo artists to become some of the world's hottest live acts.
07:45 That includes Skrillex, whose 2012 collaboration with The Doors "Breakin' a Sweat" samples Morrison's interview.
07:50 Keyboardist Ray Manzarek believed his old bandmate would have been proud to hear his prediction realized.
08:06 Actor James Dean infamously starred in a PSA for safe driving, 13 days before he died in a car accident.
08:12 That wasn't the only eerie coincidence surrounding this tragedy.
08:15 A week earlier, Dean showed off his new Porsche 550 to actor Alec Guinness, who warned that it would be the death of him in a week's time.
08:22 "Next Thursday, you'll be dead if you get into that car."
08:25 In telling this story in 1977, Guinness said that his premonition simply came over him.
08:29 This contributes to the myth that the Porsche Dean died in is cursed.
08:33 "Every one of them want to see that you're safe. You understand that? They want you to be safe."
08:40 Recycled parts from the destroyed car went on to be involved in other gruesome accidents.
08:44 It's a shame that 24-year-old Dean didn't respect Guinness' warning.
08:47 "And then we had a charming dinner, and he was dead the following Thursday afternoon in that car."
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09:09 1. Social Networking – David Bowie
09:13 A fan of science fiction, David Bowie foresaw the future in his own time with the rise of commercial internet.
09:18 He was one of the first major musicians with an online brand.
09:27 He explained in a 1999 interview that this new medium would become a way for creators and consumers to interact.
09:33 This prospect was a key influence on platforms like Myspace.
09:45 Now, the whole world is connected by countless social media networks.
09:48 Bowie didn't simply anticipate this future, but helped build it.
09:52 He launched the internet service provider BowieNet in '98 to build and connect with a community of fans.
09:57 BowieNet may have retired in 2006, but played a role in the evolution of social media.
10:02 Which precise predictions Bowing About celebrities have impressed you most?
10:16 Take your observation to the comments.
10:18 "Tonight is bigger than a show. It's a party."
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