10 Movies Teased In Other Movies YEARS Earlier
6. A Kid Plays With A Ghidorah Action Figure - Independence Day
Roland Emmerich has never exactly been a master of subtlety, so it tracks that he used his 1996 blockbuster classic Independence Day to tease the next tentpole flick he was already teeing up.
In the scene where Steven Hiller's (Will Smith) stepson Dylan (Ross Bagley) is playing with an action figure, look closely and you might notice that he's actually playing with a three-headed dragon - King Ghidorah from Godzilla, to be precise.
This wasn't merely a cutesy nod to 'Zilla, but a not-so-sly hint that, two years from now, his Godzilla movie would be unleashed upon the general public.
Sadly Ghidorah was nowhere to be seen in it, though, and let's face it, his presence couldn't have really made the movie any worse.