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A New Book Chronicles the Birth of 'E.T.'

Gizmodo·Justin Carter·about 14 hours ago
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Do you love Steven Spielberg, and his sci-fi movies in particular? If so, you may be excited to hear of a book that’ll dig deep into his second foray into the genre— E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial .  The book is Max Evry’s  Stranded on Earth ,  which will chart how Spielberg’s 1982 film was born. Initially, he’d been looking to make Night Skies, an alien horror film that would’ve followed  Close Encounters of the Third Kind . After it was scrapped, elements of it went on to inspire several films,  E.T.  included. According to the press release, Evry, who previously did an oral history of David Lynch’s  Dune ,  interviewed multiple Spielberg collaborators, from actors to industry insiders. And the book won’t just stop here, as Evry plans to explore how  Night Skies  went on to shape fellow 80s hits  Poltergeist   and  Gremlins , plus the larger sci-fi horror landscape.…

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