Posted on 01/27/2025 10:59:24 PM PST by nickcarraway
Legendary director Steven Spielberg was adamant the film should not get a follow-up.
teven Spielberg fought to stop a sequel to ET the Extra-Terrestrial from being made.
The legendary director had already made classics including Jaws, Close Encounters Of The Third Kind and Raiders Of The Lost Ark before he moved on to the beloved alien movie, but he insists he did not have enough clout to stop the studio's plans until ET became a huge success – and he used his power to make sure a second movie would never hit the big screen.
Speaking at the TCM Classic Film Festival: New York Pop-Up x 92NY event, Spielberg explained: "That was a real hard-fought victory because I didn’t have any rights.
"Before ET, 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 [intellectual property]. "I didn’t have that. I got it after ET because of its success."
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That’s entirely possible. We just had a turnip as president.
Does he challenge Will to a duel by slapping him in the face?
Hey at least turnips have a function.
I thought Denzel Washington took over the job of “black guy taking over the white guy role” in Hollywood.
He fought the sequel
As he cashed the check.
E.T., the forgotten blockbuster. Nobody watches it. Nobody talks about it. Kids don’t know about it. I still like it, but I haven’t watched it in years.
To Spielberg’s credit, he quickly backtracked on the walkie talkie thing and vowed to not sanitize his old movies ever again.
Close Encounters had amazing special effects for the time and showed many detailed elements of the UFO mythos—excellent research.
Many of the modern “whistleblowers” are making similar claims today.
E.T.—not in the same league imho.
The silliness of the guy building a mountain in his living room ended it for me. Then, of course, there was the popular concept of “close encounters of the fourth kind”, in other words, sex with an alien.
...apparently ET was a plant which is why plants responded to him.Sounds like a relative of this guy.
he should have fought to stop the idiotic Indy girl power movie.
And should have had Chris Pratt take over the role that crybaby ford wouldn’t let him have.
like in the movie about a heroic white train conductor that stops a runaway train but is now portrayed in the movie as a black hero?
...there was the popular concept of “close encounters of the fourth kind”, in other words, sex with an alien.A technique perfected by this guy.
So I take it you have no interest in Greer’s CE5 cruise:
https://www.instagram.com/dr.steven.greer/p/DBub_B2iI1c/
CE5 is where you meditate and try to convince the aliens to visit/molest you.
:-)
forget the sequel, they should make it into a video game...
sweet.
Didn’t that happen in the first one? ;)
If it hadn’t been for John Williams brilliant score, ET would have ranked at the eye rolling level of GOONIES.
Why is everything so politicized these days? Posting John Kerry on these threads will put you on Santas naughty list.
I’m working on my Hollywood script for” E.C., the the Extra Chromosome”.
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