10 Iconic Video Game Moments You Had NO Idea Were Taken From Movies

10. Uncharted 3 - Plane Chaos

Inspired by: The Living Daylights (1987)

Everyone knows Uncharted is basically Indiana Jones: The Game, complete with quips, ancient puzzles, and near-death set-pieces every 20 minutes. But one of Uncharted 3’s most iconic moments doesn’t come from Indy - it borrows from another cinematic globetrotter: Bond. James Bond.

In The Living Daylights, Timothy Dalton’s 007 finds himself mid-brawl in the belly of a cargo plane over the desert. The fight spills out the back ramp, with Bond and a henchman hanging onto cargo mid-air, before gravity does its thing. At the time, it was one of the most ambitious stunts ever put to film.

Nathan Drake looked at that scene and said, “Hold my beer.”

In Uncharted 3, the setup’s almost identical - cargo plane, desert, high-stakes freefall - but the chaos is dialled up to eleven. Debris blasts past as Drake dangles from netting, henchmen open fire mid-drop, and when he finally climbs back aboard, the plane rips itself to pieces, hurling him into a sandstorm with nothing but a parachute and a prayer.

It’s such a standout sequence, they recycled it for the Uncharted movie. The problem? On the big screen, it suddenly felt like a video game knock-off.