Future Links To The Great Gatsby & Oliver Stone Movies In The Final Countdown (1980)?

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Some future / predictive easter egg items to adaptations of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby & movies of Oliver Stone may be present in 1980 naval time travel thriller, The Final Countdown.
- Kirk Douglas played Gatsby in a 1950 radio play for The CBS Family Hour Of Stars.
- Katharine Ross, Charles Durning & Harold Bergman's characters are onboard the yacht named Gatsby, sunk by the Japanese Navy fighter planes.
- Baz Luhrmann directed a 2013 adaptation of Gatsby starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire & Carey Mulligan.
- I thought a future clue to Mulligan's name associated with Gatsby in Countdown may been seen with the aircraft CARRIER Nimitz which is the center of the story.
- Another group of connections that can be seen in Countdown may relate to the movies of Oliver Stone. Business Crime drama Wall Street (1987) featured a cast with Kirk's son Michael Douglas and additionally Martin & Charlie Sheen. Carey Mulligan acted in the 2010 sequel Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.

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00:00Here I'll point out some strange predictive references present in 1980 sci-fi time travel war

00:07film The Final Countdown, starring Kirk Douglas and Martin Sheen. One thing you can see in here

00:14are many items related to adaptations of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Douglas,

00:21for example, played the character on radio in 1950 when the CBS Family Hour of Stars produced a half

00:30hour long treatment of the story. Gatsby is the name of the yacht that's sunk by the Imperial

00:38Japanese Navy Mitsubishi Zero Fighters. Catherine Ross, Charles Durning, and Harold Bergman's

00:46characters are on board this craft. Director Baz Luhrmann produced a recent film based on Gatsby

00:53in 2013. This starred Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, and Carey Mulligan. I'll go out on a limb

01:01and say that there may be a hint to Mulligan's name. It has to do with the Nimitz, which is

01:09an

01:09aircraft carrier. Another series of close relationships involving the cast of The Final

01:18Countdown would be the movie director Oliver Stone. In 1987, Stone directed Wall Street, a crime drama

01:26starring Kirk's son Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, and Daryl Hannah. And Martin has a role in this as

01:33well. Carey Mulligan was in the sequel to this, Stone's Wall Street Money Never Sleeps in 2010,

01:41with Shia LaBeouf, Josh Brolin, and Frank Langella.

Future Links To The Great Gatsby & Oliver Stone Movies In The Final Countdown (1980)?

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