Steven Spielberg had plans to make a sequel to E.T. however finally used his energy to make sure it didn’t occur.
I’ll be…proper…right here…so long as you don’t count on 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 your entire decade. Expectedly, one was deliberate, though it had the beautiful 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 Traditional 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 an actual hard-fought victory as a result of I didn’t have any rights. Earlier than E.T., I had some rights, however I didn’t have a number of rights. I type of didn’t have what we name ‘the freeze,’ the place you’ll be able to cease the studio from making a sequel since you management the freeze on sequels, remakes and different ancillary makes use of of the IP. I didn’t have that. I received it after E.T. due to its success.”
Apparently sufficient, Steven Spielberg’s subsequent film after E.T. can be his first sequel: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. With that, it’s type of stunning how few sequels Spielberg truly has in his filmography, with solely the Indiana Jones motion pictures and The Misplaced World qualifying.
A ten-page remedy for Nocturnal Fears printed only one month after E.T. got here out will be discovered on-line, but it surely’s fairly awful. So far as the supply that was most inspiring to Spielberg for the sequel, he defined, “I flirted with it for just a little bit — just a bit bit to see if I [could] consider a narrative — and the one factor I may take into consideration was a e-book that was written by anyone that wrote the e-book for it referred to as The Inexperienced Planet, which was all going to happen at E.T.’s house. We had been all going to have the ability to go to E.T.’s house and see how E.T. lived. However it was higher as a novel than I believe it will have been as a movie.”
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. In keeping with The Numbers, it ranks behind solely Titanic and Barbie. But when we need to alter for inflation, it’s received $1.45 billion to its identify.
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