I don’t know if this counts, but it certainly wouldn’t have happened without the films...
I watched this Hong Kong flick yesterday called the Blade of Kings (2004). It was quite a silly movie in my opinion, but one thing caught my attention: the very blade of kings looked oddly familiar - or what do you think? Here it is compared with Sting.
They even kept the inscription on the crossguard! It reads “in yngyl im” which apparently means “of spiders I (am)”. There weren’t any spiders in the movie, but hey, it’s a very cool hilt.