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* ''Tin Cup''. Rory McIlroy, a [[Real Life]] golfer who comes out of nowhere to win Opens makes it even funnier to follow the adventures of the fictional Roy McAvoy.
* When [[Stanley Kubrick]] made the film version of ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]'', he changed a setting: instead of having ''Discovery'' head to Saturn and its moon Iapetus, he moved it to Jupiter and its moon Io. He did it because he couldn't create the special effects to make Saturn. Lo and behold, in 1979, the Voyager probes discovered that the next moon out around Jupiter, Europa, is very icy, and later observations have found it likely has a tidally-heated subsurface ocean of ''liquid water''. Not only did it inspire ''[[2010: The Year We Make Contact]]'', but today Europa is considered ''more likely to harbor extraterrestrial life than Mars!''
** Also: The page image. Pan Am, in 1968, was all but ubiquitous--it was ''the'' international airline for the US, and a cultural icon. Pan Am folded in 1991; its nearest rival for "official airline of the United States", TWA, was bought in all but name by American Airlines in 2001. Obviously, Kubrick had no way of knowing any of this in 1968, and so naturally extended then-current
* ''[[2010: The Year We Make Contact]]'' was made in 1984 and one of the characters is wearing an off the shoulder [[Flashdance]] style sweater. Shirts like this actually came back into fashion in 2010.
* ''[[The Dead Zone]]'' features [[Martin Sheen]] as a local politician. At one point, he passionately shouts that he will be the President of the United States one day. He later starred in ''[[The West Wing]]'' as the President of the United States.
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