10 Movie Props You Won't Believe Were Re-Used In Other Films

9. 2001: A Space Odyssey's EVA Pod - Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

2001 A Space Odyssey Star Wars The Phantom Menace
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If you've ever seen Stanley Kubrick's magnificent 2001: A Space Odyssey, you quite probably remember the distinctive design of the EVA pods used by the astronauts to perform scouting and repair activities outside of their spacecraft.

Kubrick bring Kubrick, he was extremely strict about all of the movie's props being destroyed at the end of production, to ensure that no future projects could re-purpose the materials for their own means.

But someone clearly didn't get the memo - or did and ignored it - as the EVA pod makes a cameo appearance in the junkyard in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace some 31 years later (mere months after Kubrick's death, coincidentally).

Quite what Kubrick would've made of this, or of the CGI-slathered abomination that was The Phantom Menace, we'll sadly never know.

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