The Adam Project: Every Easter Egg And Time Travel Movie Reference Explained
The Adam Project features a number of time travel movie references and Easter eggs, giving a nod to the films that helped inspire it. In addition, The Adam Project features a number of references to other films from the actors within it, including leads Ryan Reynolds and Mark Ruffalo. The Adam Project has been likened to the sci-fi movies of the 80s, pulling from all manner of classics of the era, from The Last Starfighter to Back to the Future to E.T. and beyond.
Directed by Shawn Levy (Free Guy), The Adam Project stars Ryan Reynolds as Adam Reed, a time-traveling pilot from the year 2050 who steals a ship to go back to 2018 in order to find his missing wife, Laura (Zoe Saldana), also a time-traveling pilot, who disappeared after her last mission. Adam inadvertently arrives in the year 2022 after some miscalculations and meets up with his 12-year-old self, played by Walker Scobell, who teams up with him to help stop time travel from ever happening. The duo travel back to the year 2018, where they meet up with their deceased father, Louis (Mark Ruffalo), who is actually the inventor of what made time travel possible in the future and the only one who can help destroy it. It's a tale of adventure, humor, and heart that brings together many elements of the genre, including those that helped make it what it is.
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Levy has named a number of films as being influential to The Adam Project, including the aforementioned Back to the Future and E.T., but he has also cited Star Wars, Good Will Hunting, Jerry Maguire, Searching For Bobby Fischer, andGallipoli as also being part of that influence. There are other references that fuel The Adam Project as well, which stem from
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