Steven Spielberg had plans to make a sequel to E.T. however in the end used his energy to make sure it didn’t occur.
I’ll be…proper…right here…so long as you don’t anticipate me to be a sequel. Steven Spielberg’s E.T. the Additional-Terrestrial stays one of many highest-grossing movies ever, simply taking 1982 and even all the decade. Expectedly, one was deliberate, though it had the gorgeous unlucky identify of E.T. II: Nocturnal Fears…As we all know, it fortunately by no means got here to fruition, with Spielberg placing an eventual cease to the sequel.
Talking at a TCM Basic Movie Competition occasion over the weekend (alongside Drew Barrymore), Steven Spielberg stated the ability he was rising in Hollywood allowed him to place the E.T. sequel to relaxation. “That was a real hard-fought victory because I didn’t have any rights. Before E.T., I had some rights, but I didn’t have a lot of rights. I kind of didn’t have what we call ‘the freeze,’ where you can stop the studio from making a sequel because you control the freeze on sequels, remakes and other ancillary uses of the IP. I didn’t have that. I got it after E.T. because of its success.”
Apparently sufficient, Steven Spielberg’s subsequent film after E.T. could be his first sequel: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. With that, it’s sort of stunning how few sequels Spielberg really has in his filmography, with solely the Indiana Jones films and The Misplaced World qualifying.
A ten-page therapy for Nocturnal Fears printed only one month after E.T. got here out could be discovered on-line, however it’s fairly awful. So far as the supply that was most inspiring to Spielberg for the sequel, he defined, “I flirted with it for a little bit — just a little bit to see if I [could] think of a story — and the only thing I could think about was a book that was written by somebody that wrote the book for it called The Green Planet, which was all going to take place at E.T.’s home. We were all going to be able to go to E.T.’s home and see how E.T. lived. But it was better as a novel than I think it would have been as a film.”
E.T. the Additional-Terrestrial stays one of many highest-grossing movies that both by no means had a sequel or isn’t a part of a pre-existing title. Based on The Numbers, it ranks behind solely Titanic and Barbie. But when we wish to modify for inflation, it’s obtained $1.45 billion to its identify.
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