00:00While recently playing 1985 Atari arcade video game Paperboy,
00:06I thought I spotted a couple references for movies starring actor Tom Hanks,
00:13both past and future.
00:14I looked into this, and I must say, pretty impressive connections between Hanks and the actual game.
00:21In 1987, Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks appeared in Buddy Cop, the slapstick comedy film Dragnet.
00:30Dan Aykroyd, known for Ghostbusters, was later in 2015 sci-fi comedy Pixels, directed by Chris Columbus.
00:41This cast featured Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Peter Dinklage, Sean Bean, and Max Frewer cameos.
00:48So the story of Pixels is like an alien invasion scenario.
00:54The aliens have modeled themselves own popular video game characters, stretching back to the 1980s.
01:01They're cameos by many popular game characters.
01:06Paperboy was among these.
01:08One item that you'll encounter in some of the harder stages of the game,
01:13a road sign that reads,
01:15Minute Work.
01:16This was also the title of a 1990 comedy, written and directed by Emilio Estevez.
01:23Brother Charlie Sheen co-stars, along with Leslie Hope, Keith David, and Dean Cameron.
01:30Interesting connections here.
01:32I did some previous videos on 83 horror anthology Nightmares,
01:38in which Estevez stars in a fascinating segment entitled The Bishop of Battle.
01:44He's a video game ace.
01:46When a new game arrives in a local venue, he goes to great lengths to try and beat this.
01:54There's a very unexpected outcome in the piece.
01:57The game characters escape the confines of cyberspace, and he winds up in a real-world laser battle in the
02:06arcade.
02:06In 83, this was a few years before Paperboy.
02:10There are many Atari cabinets that you can see.
02:14Yeah, as it applies to Tom Hanks, he was reportedly considered for the role of youth hockey coach Gordon Bombay
02:23in the Mighty Ducks in 92.
02:25A movie of Estevez wound up playing this character.
02:29The cast featured Joss Ackland, Wayne Smith, and Joshua Jackson.
02:34In another video, I talked about Tom Hanks in 89 Joe Dante comedy, The Burbs.
02:43Dick Miller and Robert Picardo have minor roles as garbage men.
02:48Estevez and Sheen as garbage men in Minute Work.
02:52I often think about the similarity between these characters and these films.
02:59In another recent video, I mentioned the possible Stephen King future Easter eggs in Paperboy.
03:06Emilio Estevez worked with horror author Stephen King in his sole directorial credit, 1986 sci-fi action horror Maximum Overdrive.
03:17Machines and cars are possessed by some alien force and come to life, stalking any humans that may be standing
03:26around.
03:27Other casts include Pat Hingle, Yardley Smith, Leon Rippey, and Marla Maples.
03:33I did the recent video on Matt Frewer and One More Man 2.
03:38And Emilio Estevez also was in a very interesting science fiction film, Free Jack in 92.
03:44A very similar premise as some of the cyberspace, cyberpunk, action adventure films that would come later in the 90s
03:53like The Matrix.
03:54Free Jack also featured Rolling Stones musician Mick Jagger, actress Renee Russo, and Anthony Hopkins.
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