War of the Worlds Features a Subtle Dragon Ball Easter Egg Dragon Ball, according to many fans, is the live-action Western take on Akira Toriyama's franchise, Dragon Ball Evolution, with the film, and the series itself, recently having been discovered with an Easter Egg that was spotted in the 2005 science-fiction feature, War of the Worlds. Though the movie starred Tom Cruise, another of his co-stars had a big connection to the popular anime franchise, and apparently had a sneaky reference to one of the earliest characters of the anime series that isn't quite as powerful as the Saiyans. Dragon Ball Evolution, playing the live-action version of Son Goku. Ironically enough, this isn't even the Easter Egg that was discovered by a Dragon Ball fan, who was able to catch the fact that Chatwin's character had a figurine of the villain Pilaf in his room during the runtime of the film. While Pilaf himself didn't have a role in the live-action adaptation, with the main antagonist of the film being Piccolo, he would eventually return in