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A future reference to 15th Doctor Who actor Ncuti Gatwa may appear in 1983 techno thriller WarGames. At 29 minutes, 9 seconds, David (Matthew Broderick) is trying to impress Jennifer (Ally Sheedy) with his skill at patching into remote systems using a computer and modem. The word "GJATWA" appears on-screen for a flight listing. I thought the spelling close to Gatwa, who played the British science fiction TV series character between 2023-2025.

I mention indicators in WarGames that the modern era could be a subject, the presence of actor James Tolkan may be relevant. Tolkan is Wigan in WarGames & known for playing Principal Strickland in time travel trilogy Back To The Future (1985-1990). A fictional version of a California town in 2015 is shown in the '89 sequel. Tolkan was also in fantasy action film Masters Of The Universe in 1987, this has been remade and will hit theaters in the summer of 2026.

Several cast of WarGames worked with Doctor Who actors:
- Matthew Broderick and 1996 Doctor Who movie villain Eric Roberts were together in 1996 Jim Carrey comedy, The Cable Guy. Roberts was series baddie The Master in the one off special featuring Paul McGann.
- Two arcade cabinets for Atari's Tron can be seen WarGames. David Warner, a prominent actor in British horror & sci-fi circles played games Master Sark in the 1982 movie. Warner was also in time travel movie Time After Time in 1980 with Back To The Future's Mary Steenburgen & Malcolm McDowell.
- WarGames director John Badham and Ally Sheedy later collaborated on Short Circuit in 1986 which featured the wisecracking Johnny Five robot, who was made lifelike after being struck by a bolt of lightning.
- G.W. Bailey of that film played a security guard in Mannequin (1987) where actress Kim Cattrall played a shopfront window clotheshorse come to life. She was in Rosebud in 1975 with Doctor Who Actress Lalla Ward.

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00:00We're talking about knowledge of the future movies, YouTube channel, Easter Egg Psychic,
00:051983 techno thriller, War Games.
00:10Now this film was directed by John Badham and featured a cast with Matthew Broderick,
00:17Ally Sheedy, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, Michael Madsen, James Tolkien, and Art LeFleur.
00:24So while watching War Games, I think I may have found a future reference to British science fiction television series
00:34Doctor Who.
00:35In a scene at 29 minutes, 9 seconds, Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy's characters are using David's computer,
00:45among the few at the time, to have a modem which allowed telephone access to remote systems.
00:55He's a bit of a hacker in this.
00:58In those days when there was far less security, you could gain access to the computers of other individuals, companies,
01:08organizations, etc.
01:09He tries to impress the girl by doing this.
01:12He brings up a screen, a word jumped out at me, G-J-A-T-W-A.
01:18And I thought this similar to the name of actor and shooty Gatwa,
01:24who plays the 15th Doctor in the recent series of Doctor Who.
01:30This was between 2023 and 2025.
01:35Indicators in War Games that recent history may be a subject.
01:43Actor James Tolkien's name came to mind.
01:46He plays Mr. Wiggin in this movie.
01:48The principal in time travel trilogy Back to the Future, which ran between 85 and 89,
01:56is set in the fictional future year of 2015.
01:59That was the year that U.S. President Donald Trump was elected.
02:03So yeah, we're still in that same cycle, aren't we?
02:07Tolkien, also in Masters of the Universe in 87, that movie's been remade.
02:14The new adaptation is out later this summer.
02:17There are some connections between the cast of War Games and actors who have appeared in Doctor Who.
02:24Matthew Broderick and Eric Roberts, for example, were together in the 1996 Jim Carrey comedy, The Cable Guy.
02:34Roberts played the master in the 1996 Doctor Who movie.
02:40I mentioned some Star Trek links with War Games in another video.
02:45Yeah, there are two arcade cabinets for Atari's Tron in this movie.
02:51The 1982 film featured David Warner as the game Batty.
02:58An interesting time travel movie with Warner time after time in 1979.
03:04Also featured Malcolm McDowell and actress Mary Steenburgen of Back to the Future 3.
03:11War Games director John Badham and actress Ally Sheedy were together again on robot comedy Short Circuit.
03:21In 1986, it's about how a robot developed for the U.S. military that is struck by lightning and apparently
03:31becomes sentient.
03:33And also in this, you'll find Steve Guttenberg, Fisher Stevens, and G.W. Bailey.
03:40His name stood out due to his role in romantic fantasy Mannequin in 1987 with Andrew McCarthy and Kim Cattrall.
03:51This story deals with a storefront Mannequin Comes to Life.
03:56Here we have a link to Doctor Who.
03:59It's through Romana 2 actress Lala Ward.
04:03Cattrall and Ward together in the cast of 1975 action thriller Rosebud directed by Otto Preminger.
04:11Peter O'Toole and Richard Admer were also in this cast.
04:15My YouTube channel is Easter Egg Psychic.
04:18There I go back and look at movies and television from the past.
04:21I analyze these for possible references to future media.
04:24These may appear in the form of anecdotes, idioms, anagrams.
04:29Hidden in the subtext of the work in question, I'll also use an unconventional method where I'll look at the
04:34likenesses of the actors.
04:38What I've found is you can take the likenesses, match these up to some of the anecdotal items,
04:44and show past, present, and future information about actors and other personalities
04:50that may resemble the personalities in the movie or television episode that you're watching.
04:56My email contact is easteregguy, that's G-U-Y, at yahoo.com.
05:04Thanks for watching.
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