Bali, Indonesia, an island where rock musician David Bowie (1947-2016) chose to have his ashes scattered may be shown as a predictive easter egg in the 1978 sci-fi horror film remake Invasion Of The Body Snatchers.
- At the 36 minute 29 second mark Jeff Goldblum's character returns to the Bellicec spa which he and his wife (Veronica Cartwright) operate. There, a sign on the left side of the screen mentions the spa offers Volcanic Ash Mud Baths. Later, you can see the patrons in the baths and one is reading the book Worlds in Collision by Immanuel Velikovsky. I thought the volcanic reference a possible nod to Bali, an island which hosts many resorts and active volcanoes (Mount Agung made news in 2017 when it began erupting).
- The appearance of Worlds In Collision may be taken as a homophone reference linking "Ball" (ie: the planets are generally considered to be round in shape) to "Bali".
There are major links to Bowie through the cast of Invasion Of The Body Snatchers:
- Jeff Goldblum was later in the John Landis-directed Into The Night (1985) with the "Space Oddity" singer, who plays a gangster.
- In 1984 Goldblum acted in sci-fi adventure The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. Actor Lewis Smith was in this cast and would later play Bowie's alien character in a 1987 TV remake of The Man Who Fell To Earth. Bruce McGill (who was an Elvis impersonator in Into The Night) had a part in this.
- Veronica Cartwright was previously in Ridley Scott's 1979 science fiction horror film Alien. Scott had worked with Bowie in a 1969 TV advert for Luv Ice Cream.
- Brooke Adams (Body Snatchers) has some connections to Bowie. She was in the 1983 Stephen King-based horror film The Dead Zone with Christopher Walken.
- Bowie starred in the 1983 movie adaptation of author Whitley Strieber's The Hunger.
- Walken played author (Strieber) in a reality-based account of alien abduction in Communion (1989).
- Bowie was signed to play the villain Zorin in the 1986 James Bond spy film A View To A Kill but withdrew (Christopher Walken eventually played this part).
- Actor Andreas Katsulas played a recurring alien, the Romulan (cousins of the Vulcans), Tomalak in several episodes of the Star Trek The Next Generation (1987+) TV series.
- Leonard Nimoy, who played the psychiatrist and author in "Body Snatchers", was well know for playing the alien Vulcan Spock in Star Trek.
