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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (or simply E.T.) is a 1982 American science fiction film produced and directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Melissa Mathison. It tells the story of Elliott, a boy who befriends an extraterrestrial, dubbed E.T., who is left behind on Earth.
Elliott often seems lonely and out of sorts, lost in his own world. One day, while looking for something in the back yard, he senses something mysterious in the woods watching him. And he's right...
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- E.T. Was Initially Patched Together from Different Ideas For Separate Movies.
- Melissa Mathison’s First Draft of E.T. Became The Shooting script.
- Henry Thomas’s Improvised Audition For E.T. Won Him The Part of Elliott.
- Peter Coyote’s Bad Audition For Raiders of The Lost Ark Got Him A Part in E.T.
- A Mime Was Responsible For E.T.’s Hand movements.
- A Trio of Actors Brought E.T.’s Other Movements to Life.
- The First Voice of E.T. Was Spielberg himself.
- Harrison Ford appeared in One Scene, But It Was Cut from The Final Film.
- E.T.’s Favorite Candy Was Supposed to Be M&Ms.
- On Set, Spielberg Was An Old Hag.
With his newfound success following the back-to-back smash hits of Jaws in 1975 and Close Encounters of the Third Kind in 1977, director Steven Spielberg wanted to tell a smaller, more personal story for his next film. Entitled Growing Up, the proposed movie was inspired by the divorce of the young director's parents when he was 15 years old. It in...
Most films go through several drafts before a final shooting script is locked into place, but Melissa Mathison’s first draft is what Spielberg used during shooting. Instead of constantly revising individual drafts, Spielberg gave Mathison the general narrative plot for her to round out. She would write for five straight days and then collaborate wi...
The most difficult role for Spielberg to cast was that of Elliott, the boy who discovers and befriends E.T. Spielberg’s friend Jack Fisk (Sissy Spacek’s husband and the production designer of such films as Badlands and Eraserhead) suggested a young actor by the name of Henry Thomas, whom he had directed in his 1981 film Raggedy Man. Spielberg broug...
Peter Coyote, who plays the sympathetic government agent Keys in E.T., auditioned for the role of Indiana Jones during a May 1980 casting session held by Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. Coyote, who was given snippets of the Raiders of the Lost Arkscript along with a character outline of Indy, brought along a dashing fedora to accentuate his audi...
A puppet can only do so much, so to breathe a little bit more balletic life into his creature, Spielberg hired professional mime Caprice Rothe to provide fluid and naturalistic hand motions. Each time the puppet was meant to interact with Elliott or pick certain things up during a scene, Rothe would have to lay horizontally underneath the puppet an...
The scenes where Spielberg opted to show full-body shots of E.T. freely moving around were performed by three different actors. Two little people, Tamara de Treaux and Pat Bilon, wore special E.T. suits for wide shots of the alien walking around. They were able to see out of well-hidden slits cut into the upper part of E.T.’s chest. Other scenes, l...
During shooting, Spielberg acted out the voice parts of E.T. by positioning himself just to the side of the camera, uttering famous phrases like “E.T. phone home,” but also occasionally speaking in full sentences to better connect the character to the child actors. In the rough cut, Spielberg’s temp track was later replaced with the voice of actres...
Ford was already an iconic Spielberg alum, so to play with that image, the filmmaker cast his Raiders of the Lost Ark star as the principal of Elliott’s school. Other than Elliott’s mother, another adult's face wasn't shown until the third act, so Ford was always filmed from behind. Ford reprimands the youngster after the scene where Elliott frees ...
Spielberg brought his idea to Mars Incorporated, the company that owns M&Ms, to ask if they could use their little candies in a scene where Elliott attracts the inquisitive alien back to his house. Universal Studios legally barred the company from seeing the final script, so Mars passed on the cross-promotional opportunity. Spielberg and company th...
In the Halloween scene (shot in October 1981), Elliott and his brother Michael dress E.T. up as if he’s their costumed little sister so that they can safely get him to the forest to phone home. To join in the fun, Spielberg spent the entire day dressed up as an old woman. He even bobbed for apples and went trick-or-treating with the cast at the wra...
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Dec 1, 2022 · "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" was close to Steven Spielberg's heart. As such, he wanted to protect the movie's integrity from interference from studio executives.
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial: Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Dee Wallace, Henry Thomas, Peter Coyote, Robert MacNaughton. A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape from Earth and return to his home planet.
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Dec 8, 2020 · E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial ends with Elliott saying goodbye to his alien friend, who goes back home. Here's the ending of the film, explained.
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Apr 6, 2017 · Steven Spielberg's 1982 movie E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is universally recognized as a masterpiece. Read up on the beloved classic here! Celebrate the 35th anniversary of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial with some behind the scenes trivia and fun facts you never knew!
