10 Films Which Accidentally Predicted The Future

Birdman is a gloriously self aware film which takes the piss out of the glitzy world of show business. These jabs vary from dry observations about every actor in Hollywood jumping on the superhero bandwagon, including Michael Fassbender who is described as "doing the prequel to the X-Men prequel" to the very on the nose casting of Edward Norton as an intense method actor who is loved by the critics but hated by his fellow actors.

Also indulging in this self-parody is Michael Keaton who plays Riggan Thomson, a washed up actor whose career has never recovered after his stint as the fictional superhero Birdman. This is of course a reference to Keaton having played Batman in the late 80s and early 90s and struggling to advance his own career afterwards.

However, in perhaps one of the greatest examples of the pop culture snake eating itself, Keaton who is haunted for the entirety of the film by Birdman - an antagonistic winged superhero version of himself - would go on to play another feathered comic book character in Spider-Man: Homecoming.

Keaton memorably played the Vulture in the first instalment of Tom Holland's Spider-Man series, a role he would never have been offered if he had not starred in the Oscar-nominated film which gave him a late career resurgence.