Within the “Star Wars” films, R2-D2 is kind of an outsized, high-tech Swiss Military knife, outfitted with instruments and soldering irons and holographic emitters. It additionally serves as a navigational pc that may be faraway from one ship and plugged into one other. Given R2-D2’s place on the “Shut Encounters” ship, a fan would possibly posit that R2 is serving because the navigator for the “Encounters” aliens.
The identical is likely to be posited in regards to the exploded ship that the united statesS. Enterprise encounters in “Star Trek.” Somebody with sharp eyes might need seen, flying by means of the particles, slightly tiny R2, clearly blown off the hull. Look simply above Sulu’s head within the image above, and one can see R2-D2 on the ship’s viewscreen. R2-D2 additionally sails by the display screen, albeit much more shortly, throughout an explosion scene in “Into Darkness.” One actually has to know what they’re in search of to see the droid.
On the crimson carpet, a fan identified to Abrams that they’d noticed R2. Abrams eagerly identified that he performed the identical trick twice, saying:
“He was additionally on this film. He is been in all the films I’ve directed. […] However the purpose I did that’s as a result of in ‘Shut Encounters of the Third Sort,’ which I noticed after I was a child, R2-D2 was in that film. So, oddly, placing R2-D2 in these films is absolutely an homage to ‘Shut Encounters of the Third Sort.’ So it is a very unusual homage to a film that was making an homage to a film.”
R2-D2 just isn’t a “Star Wars” reference, however a reference to a “Shut Encounters” “Star Wars” reference. Bizarre that Abrams appeared to have killed R2-D2 in each movies.