00:00I recently did a couple videos looking at some post-apocalyptic Italian action movies from the 1980s.
00:09And there I spotted some references that would seem to point to a relationship between Star Wars and Ghost Rider.
00:17I'll give a background primer as to the significance and relevance.
00:21Looking at some of the movies that cast and production staff involved in these also worked on,
00:291983 sci-fi action movie, The Atlantis Interceptors.
00:34This had several alternative titles, including Writers of Atlantis.
00:39Directed by Ruggiero Diodato with Christopher Connelly, George Hilton, and Bruce Barron.
00:46Amazingly, I think there's a future Easter egg in this to one of the installments of the Indiana Jones series.
00:55And many of these featured a story by Star Wars creator George Lucas.
01:00The main antagonist of Atlantis Interceptors is Crystal Skull, played by Barron.
01:07The Crystal Skull is also the subject of the fourth Indiana Jones movie released in 2008.
01:14Starring Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Karen Allen, and Shia LaBeouf.
01:18Connections
01:19Tino Capri is credited as a writer on both Warriors of the Wasteland and New Barbarians in 83 and The
01:29Atlantis Interceptors.
01:31Additionally, actor Michel Soavi played James in Atlantis Interceptors.
01:38And he had a part as Gold Carrier in 1983 Joe D'Amato film Endgame, Brock Salata Finale, The New
01:48Barbarians.
01:49Alternately titled Warriors of the Wasteland, this cast featured Giancarlo Prete, Fred Williamson, and Anna Kanakis.
01:59Two movies which will not see release for a year and two years from the date of this recording, July
02:082026.
02:10I did a related video on this subject.
02:14It involves another post-apocalyptic Italian action movie entitled Endgame, also from 83.
02:22The connections I drew there were to plot similarity to Stephen King's 82 story, The Running Man, and the 87
02:33and 25 film adaptations.
02:36At the San Diego Comic-Con, actor Ryan Gosling was announced to play Marvel comic book superhero Ghost Rider.
02:45In a 2028 movie, director Sean Levy and writer Jonathan Trapper confirmed on this project they just finished working with
02:56Gosling on Star Wars Starfighter due out next summer.
03:02The connection to Ghost Rider and the 87 Running Man, Maria Cicida Alonso, was also in 89 comedy Vampire's Kiss
03:12with Ghost Rider actor Nicolas Cage.
03:16The link in Endgame that points to a connection between Star Wars and Ghost Rider.
03:21There's a car with a red dome protruding from the bonnet area.
03:26I thought this was similar to the head of Star Wars droid R2-D2.
03:33In the New Barbarians, you'll see one of the enemy vehicles, and apparently the exact same red dome is also
03:44affixed to this car.
03:46Actor George Eastman, who plays the main antagonist, One, in the New Barbarians, was also in the cast of Endgame.
03:55He played Karnak, actor Fred Williamson, who was Nadir in The New Barbarians, also played a bar patron and director
04:07Quentin Tarantino in Robert Rodriguez's 1996 crime horror film From Dusk Till Dawn.
04:13George Clooney and Ryan Gosling led the cast of 2011 political drama The Ides of March.
04:23Also in this, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, Marissa Tomei, Jeffrey Wright, and Evan Rachel Wood.
04:30Thank you very much.
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