It seems that Christopher Nolan isn’t as original as he thought! Ok, maybe he used a dream theif to get the idea from the Beagle Boys in Scrooge McDuck’s comic, but then aside from needing whatever it was that got Michael Jordan into the cartoon world in Space Jam, he would also need a Delorean so he could travel into the future.
Geeks of Doom share:
The panel seen here is from “The Dream of a Lifetime,” where The Beagle Boys use a special machine to enter Scrooge’s dream in an effort to extract information so they can steal his money. The story appeared in an issue of The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck published in 2002.
You eagle-eyed viewers might say that this comic is before Inception was released, but Christopher Nolan actually had thought about these ideas on and off since he was sixteen years old and first pitched the idea to Warner Bros. in 2001.
So while the idea may have been teased at in a Disney comic, there is no connection between Inception and this cartoon.
But still fun to hear about these genuine coincidences.
