Cleaning my computer of unneeded files the other day I came across the trailer for the last Star Wars movie, Revenge of the Sith.

I guess the one time I saw the movie I never noticed a building behind the Jedi Council on Coruscant that looks strikingly similar to the Burj Dubai:


And here's the Burj Dubai:


Odd.

Of course, the fact that those buildings are similar might just be a coincidence. But in 2005's Serenity they used Dubai's Emirates Towers (well, one of them) as reference in an establishing shot of Earth:


Here's the real Emirates Towers:


Fun stuff.