Thomas was only a year older than his character, starring in the film at age In , a tape of his audition for the role was uploaded to YouTube and went viral. At the end of his impressive performance, director Steven Spielberg says, "OK, kid, you've got the job! Before landing the part at the age of 14, Macnaughton starred in a few TV movies.
He acted for the first time since in "Frankenstein vs. He told Yahoo Entertainment's Gwynne Watkins in that he grew tired of the auditioning process by the time he was about 30, so decided to get a "real job. However, he told Watkins he'd return to acting if the creators of "Stranger Things" called him.
Barrymore was 7 when the movie was released in Her parents and paternal grandparents were also actors. After struggling with addiction as a teenager, Barrymore sought treatment and went on to rule Hollywood. She ventured into TV when she starred in and executive produced "Santa Clarita Diet" from to , before hosting her own talk show. The first season kicked off in Prior to "E. Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. The planet was unspeakably strange.
He was ten million years old and had been a great many places, but he'd never encountered anything as complicated as this. Overwhelmed, he crept away, needing to rest his brain in the vegetable patch. He slumped down next to a cabbage and lowered his head.
It was all over. I've also read that he's actually relatively young among members of his species, but can't find a canonical quote for this I don't actually have the book to hand, although I read it several years ago. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. How old was E. Ask Question. Asked 5 years, 5 months ago.
Active 4 years, 6 months ago. Viewed 5k times. For example, he follows a random, obviously planted candy trail, on a hostile planet, drinks alcohol without understanding the repercussions, and gets super-emotionally invested in a movie, to the point of subconsciously using a psychic link to get someone to recreate a scene from it.
Improve this question. Rogue Jedi. Interestingly, the idea of a family barricading itself in a farmhouse against hostile aliens bears a striking resemblance to Signs , whose producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall are frequent Spielberg collaborators Kennedy also co-produced E.
Debra Winger not only provided the temp voice for E. She is wearing a monster mask and a lab coat and carries a poodle. Spielberg stated that he always regretted using this scene in the first place, and that he would remove it if he ever re-issued the film.
However, in , he changed his mind again, stating that there would be no more digital alterations of his movies, and urging people to watch E. The Blu-Ray and UHD editions that were later released contain only the original theatrical version, and the 20th anniversary DVD version has since gone out of circulation.
Thomas Howell 's film debut. The Atari video game for this film was one of the biggest critical and commercial failures in video-game history, leading to thousands of unsold cartridges getting buried in a landfill. The songwriters paid the studio a nominal sum for use of ideas from the movie. Elvis Costello was asked by Q music magazine March if he was paid handsomely for the use of 'Accidents Will Happen' of which two lines were sung by Michael Robert MacNaughton when he is looking in the fridge.
He replied: "No, I don't think they offered any money. We had no way of knowing it was going to be so huge so there was the chance we'd given it for nothing and they'd use it for some big production number.
But you really have to be paying attention to notice. At the 20th anniversary re-release premiere, John Williams conducted a live orchestra as the film played, much like an orchestra would do for a stage musical. Rick Baker was originally commissioned to create aliens for a film called Night Skies one of E. The working title for the film was "A Boy's Life". It was changed during production.
The last scene was going to be all of us playing Dungeons and Dragons again, except this time, Elliott's the dungeon master. Because he was the one that found ET, he sort of got in with the group. And so that was supposed to be the final scene, it was in the script and everything, and then they would pan up to the roof and you'd see the communicator and it's still working in other words, Elliott is still in touch with E.
But after they did the score, the music, and they saw what they had with the spaceship taking off and everything [laughs] how can you follow that? I mean, it was a wise choice. In mid , the home featured in the film, located in the Tujunga Canyon, was saved from immolation in the treacherous Station Fire. The owner of the residence said the scorched hill behind the house "looks like the surface of the moon," but that the structure itself incurred no damage in the wildfire, which up to that time had burned over , acres and claimed 62 homes.
Was voted the 20th Greatest Film of all time by Entertainment Weekly. The late Michael Jackson owned one of the E. Spielberg was so pleased with their song "Someone in the Dark" that he asked them to make the entire album, which, in spite of the size of the task, they agreed to do.
This boxed set included an LP, a book to read along with it and a poster of E. Epic Records allowed Jackson to record the album for MCA Records on the conditions that it not be released until after Christmas of so as to not compete with 'Thriller' and that "Someone in the Dark" not be released as a single. Both of the conditions were breached by MCA Records; they released the storybook in November and gave promo copies of "Someone In the Dark" to radio stations.
Jones claims neither he nor Jackson received a dime for making the record, in spite of the large cash settlement involved and its considerable success: The audio book earned Jackson a Grammy Award in for Best Recording for Children. Upon collecting the award, and taking home a record eight Grammys from an unprecedented twelve nominations, the singer stated that of all the awards had gotten that night, he was "most proud of this one".
Juliette Lewis auditioned for the role of Gertie, but her father reportedly made her turn it down. Sarah Michelle Gellar auditioned for the role of Gertie. According to Steven Spielberg, none of the children were acting. They had to act through the movie in a chronological order and never saw the E. When the ending was filmed, they had actually befriended the alien and now had to say goodbye forever. Their heartbreak was real.
This film is ranked as 6 on AFI's Years Secrecy was so tight during production that even the poster designers didn't know what E. They only had Steven Spielberg 's notes to go on. Steven Spielberg originally intended on a sequel, writing a proposed script during the summer of when E.
The proposed film would have taken place on E. Ultimately Spielberg scrapped the plan, believing that any sequel could only rob the original film's virginity. Elliott's last name is never mentioned. Described in the screenplay as looking like something from a Dr. Although his scene as School Principal was edited, Harrison Ford's voice is quite distinctive as the laboratory professor to perform dissections on frogs. The shoes that Elliott wears in the movie is the same brand of Nike shoe worn by Michael J.
Dee Wallace says that fans of the movie at conventions she goes to, always refer to her as "E. Elliott tells Gertie that only kids can see E. He's unintentionally correct; a recurring gag throughout the film is their mother Mary looking at or walking right past E.
In , Xfinity a cable provider company debuted a commercial featuring E. The short film was directed by cinematographer Lance Acord and Steven Spielberg was consulted throughout the production. The Sesame Street scene shown on the family TV, with Big Bird and Grover, was first aired in the premier episode of the show's 5th season, on November 19th, The song was ultimately not used in the movie. However, it was eventually recorded in for release on his 'That's Why I'm Here' album.
Drew Barrymore kept the red cowboy hat her character wore for Halloween as a souvenir, and is kept in her daughters' room. While Harrison Ford 's cameo was cut from the film, the scene featuring his character Elliot's School Principal was still included in the film's novelization. It is shown throughout the movie that Elliott has rainbow blinds.
Later in the movie, E. At the final scene of the movie when E. T's spaceship flies off, it makes a rainbow before it leaves earth. The role of Mary, the children's mother, was first offered to Shelley Long but she had already signed to film Night Shift and was forced to decline. Steven Spielberg first approached Rick Baker about doing the designs for E. Baker did a number of designs and tests before Spielberg became furious at Baker for requesting more time and more money after the initial story changed leading to a falling out between them for some time.
Spielberg next approached Chris Walas, who was booked to work with David Cronenberg on Scanners Rambaldi quickly took the job. Ironically enough, the iconic phrase "E. The actual phrasing by E.
Director Steven Spielberg , a fan of the game, played it when it first came out in Director Steven Spielberg initially refused to let Universal Pictures release the film on home video formats after the film had finished its long theatrical run as he believed it would cheapen the film's legacy and ruin any prospects of a theatrical re-release in the coming years a policy Disney also adopted for many of their classic movies until the s.
Spielberg said he saw the movie as a family 'event' movie like 'The Wizard of Oz' where peoples childhood memories of it should be from the experience of seeing it screened theatrically and the trip to the movie theatre should be part of that memory possibly reflecting Spielberg's own s childhood. Surprisingly Universal Pictures didn't pull rank on him over this and observed his wishes despite the financial implications. However because of this decision the film became the most pirated video of the s.
After several years of dealing with floods of complaints from angry parents and children every who had been ripped off after seeing it on a poor quality pirated videotape, Spielberg eventually gave in to the inevitable and allowed Universal to officially release the film onto the domestic video market in where it became a huge seller.
The first movie in motion picture where a alien visitors namely, E. Eleven years later Henry Thomas had another encounter with aliens in Fire in the Sky the movie about the abduction of Travis Walton as Greg Hayes. In the Halloween scene, Elliott, E. Although George Lucas wrote it as a nod to E.
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