 In one of the earlier drafts of the script, it included various  things from the original film. For example, Memphis puts on a  disguise that makes him look like an old man when he goes to steal  Eleanor (the same way the lead character in the original did). Also,  the reason why Sphinx was called Sphinx was because he originally  was written to have no nose (similar to the famous structure in  Egpyt), and that he had a pair of glasses that added on a fake nose  that he wore only during the overnight boost.