8 Sci-Fi Movies That Re-Used Props From Other Movies

8. Star Wars Episode I - A 2001 EVA Pod

Early in the Tatooine scenes in George Lucas's franchise-ruiner The Phantom Menace, the main characters walk through the yard of junk dealer and cringeworthy antisemitic stereotype Watto. Strewn around the place are all manner of bits of rubbish, resembling anything from car parts to shopping baskets.

One piece of junk, however, stands out more noticeably than the rest - and may be familiar to some viewers. The large, spherical object with protruding mechanical arms, half-buried in the sand, originally featured in Stanley Kubrick's seminal sci-fi epic 2001: A Space Odyssey.

In 2001, these extravehicular activity pods (shortened to EVA) were used for repair and maintenance on the exterior of the Discovery One on its mission to Jupiter. Rogue AI HAL 9000 murdered crew member Frank Poole by using one of the pods to sever his oxygen tank and send him adrift into the void. Another is lost when it disappears into the large monolith above Jupiter. Could it have been catapulted back through time to a galaxy far, far away and landed in the back yard of The Phantom Menace's worst character? Unlikely. It's probably just an easter egg.