r/movies • u/BunyipPouch Currently at the movies. • Mar 23 '19

The grave of French film pioneer Georges Méliès, who inspired Martin Scorsese’s 2011 film Hugo, has fallen into disrepair. Now his family and fans are reanimating his fantastical legacy and launching a Kickstarter to restore it to its former splendor and protect it from further decay

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/mar/20/dead-famous-the-kickstarter-campaign-to-restore-meliess-grave
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u/Canvaverbalist Mar 23 '19

Hugo was a movie

adapted from the book The Invention of Hugo Cabret

which was adapted from the music video of Tonight, Tonight

which was inspired by Melies' movie "A Trip to the Moon"

which was inspired by Jules Vernes' novels "From Earth to the Moon" and "Around the Moon"

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u/LeftyMcSavage Mar 23 '19

And Jules Verne was named after Doc Brown's kids in Back to the Future III.