Steven Allan Spielberg is a filmmaker.
Biography[]
Spielberg had posted a note on the Barnett College bullentin board. Signing as "S. Spielberg", he announced that he had 6000 rats and 500 snakes for sale in 1938.[1]
In 1986, Steven Spielberg won the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.[2]
He once wore a cap for the film E.T. II as he watched Raiders of the Lost Brick in a theater alongside fellow filmmaker George Lucas.[3]
Jock Lindsey once got Spielberg off some island. To thank him, Spielberg donated the tooth of a Tyrannosaurus Rex to his bar with the message "Thanks for getting me off the island -S.".[4]
Spielberg's portrait was hung among others at a barber shop on Monkey Island visited by Guybrush Threepwood.[5]
Behind the scenes[]
In real life, Steven Spielberg is the co-creator of the Indiana Jones franchise, serving as the director of the first four films and as the executive producer of the fifth one.[6][7][8][9][10]
Continuity[]
As Spielberg's appearances in-universe are as isolated easter eggs, gags and/or cameos, there is no coherent chronological narrative as they're not designed to tell a story in and of themselves.
Indiana Jones reading S. Spielberg's post.
His name is mentioned in the bulletin board that Indiana (the player) can read in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure. This is one of the many intertextual humorous references, typical of LucasArts point-and-click games. Here, the joke is based on the large quantities of rats and snakes used in Raiders of the Lost Ark and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, directed by Steven Spielberg.
In his appearance in LEGO Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Brick, Spielberg wears a cap saying E.T. II[3] as a reference to E.T. II: Nocturnal Fears, the planned sequel for his 1982 film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, which was ultimately cancelled.[11]
A photo of Spielberg in the hidden level of Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine (lower left).
Spielberg makes a cameo as photo in Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine's Aetherium level. The player is teleported to the Barbery Coast, a location from the Curse of Monkey Island, decorated with portraits of behind-the-scenes people, including Spielberg.[5]
Spielberg is alluded to at Jock Lindsey's Hangar Bar at Disneyland as "S." with the dinosaur tooth and the thanking message.[4] It's alleged that the item was actually donated to the bar by Spielberg himself which serves as an easter egg in reference to both the director's 1993 film Jurassic Park - which featured a theme park of genetically engineered dinosaurs with the T-Rex as its best known attraction - and pilot Fred Sorenson, Jock's actor, having rescued Spielberg and other crew members stranded by Hurricane Iniki while filming on the Hawaiian island of Kaua'i.[12]
Appearances[]
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure (Mentioned only) (As "S. Spielberg")
- Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine (portrait on Monkey Island) (Non-canonical appearance)
- Jock Lindsey's Hangar Bar (Mentioned only) (As "S.") (Easter egg)
- LEGO Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Brick (Non-canonical appearance)
Sources[]
- Irving Thalberg - Hollywood's Boy Wonder (Non-fiction source)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure
- ↑ Irving Thalberg - Hollywood's Boy Wonder
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 LEGO Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Brick
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Jock Lindsey's Hangar Bar
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine
- ↑ Raiders of the Lost Ark
- ↑ Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
- ↑ Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- ↑ Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
- ↑ Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
- ↑ A LOOK AT THE E.T. SEQUEL WE MERCIFULLY NEVER SAW at Syfywire
- ↑ Welcome to Jurassic Park: An oral history at Entertainment Weekly
