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Epic Movie: is a 2007 American parody film directed and written by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer and produced by Paul Schiff. It was made in a similar style to Date Movie, Friedberg and Seltzer's previous film. The film mostly references The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Tim Burton's version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. This film therefore uses intertextuality as it 'borrows' things from other films, to make it as successful as they can.

This is the Trailer of the movie

This is the Movie poster

Just by looking at this poster you can see how this film uses intertextuality.

- Captain Jack sparrow - this character is from pirates of the caribbean

- Willy Wonka from Charlie and the chocolate Factory

- ice queen and the Thorn from Narnia

- Superman

These are all characters that have been 'Borrowed' from other films to make this film a success.