It's amazing how many memorable 80s movies not directed by Spielberg have Spielberg's involvement: Gremlins, Goonies, Back to the Future.

@andmicbro1

6 ай бұрын

And Kathleen Kennedy. That's how she got where she is today, by riding Spielberg's coat tails. She was producer on a number of classics in the 80s and 90s, and did a lot of Spielberg's movies, or attached to movies he was attached to.

@BuJammy

6 ай бұрын

She was good back then, she just got lazy and complacent, like everyone does in Hollywood@@andmicbro1

@cancelme4200

6 ай бұрын

Amazing she learned nothing from her time with Lucas and Spielberg. ​@andmicbro1

@coolcat6303

6 ай бұрын

Don’t forget “Poltergeist”. Spielberg wrote and produced it and, according to some of the cast, he also directed a good portion of it. He wasn’t credited with that part though. Probably becuz he didn’t want to upstage the official director- Tobe Hooper.

@stephenmartland-buck9590

6 ай бұрын

​@@coolcat6303 I love poltergeist. I always felt his fingerprints were all over that movie. Hard to pin it down to camera angles etc but the overall feel of the film is very SS.

I’ve always been glad E.T never got a sequel

@srstriker6420

6 ай бұрын

Yeah and this script is awful

@710moose8

6 ай бұрын

Oh it will just give it time 😂😂

@kobeescobedo9571

6 ай бұрын

I hope they never do a sequel, and if they do they had better not mess it up bcuz I don’t think it deserves a sequel as well

@ScarysReviews

6 ай бұрын

word is, E.T is the sequel to close encounters

@davidjames579

6 ай бұрын

​. Colombia actually sold the rights to E.T. to Universal as they didn't have any faith in it. I bet they felt good after it became the highest grossing film of all time for the next 11 years.

What fascinates me is that the Universal Studios parks attractions of ET are basically the closest thing we came to a spiritual sequel of the film. It was overseen by Steven, and the end product was clearly the way to uniquely continue this story but as a totally new, bold and personal experience. There are many videos on KZread that go into this. A lot of the best “sequels” and extensions some times aren’t films, but experiences.

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

Just like terminator 3D

@Crunch630

6 ай бұрын

Waterworld show at Universal.

@richschmitt100

6 ай бұрын

King Kong Adventure.

@Laffinatu

5 ай бұрын

Indiana Jones Adventure ( Indiana Jones and the Temple of the Forbidden Eye ) is a prequel to Raiders.

@richschmitt100

5 ай бұрын

Says who? Where did you hear/see that? That has never been substantiated. @@Laffinatu

Honestly a bit sad Night Skies never happened, but the movies that it inspired are excellent. This history is so fun

@brandonspain12345

6 ай бұрын

Plus, we most likely never would've had Gremlins, Poltergeist, or E.T. had Night Skies got made.

@retromacman620

6 ай бұрын

@@brandonspain12345 right, exactly. From the spread out ideas of Night Skies, we got some really great films.

@Luxington1

6 ай бұрын

What movies did it inspire?

@metal87power

6 ай бұрын

first draft sounds very like the signs with mel gibson

@retromacman620

6 ай бұрын

@@metal87power it does sound similar, good point! Signs was a good film!

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial did get a sequel of sorts - a novel called "The Book of the Green Planet" by William Kotzwinkle, which was about what happened to E.T. when he went home.

@maximusprime3459

6 ай бұрын

I remember reading that book and dropping out half way because of how boring it was.

@kasterborous1701

6 ай бұрын

​@@maximusprime3459 I didn't think it was boring as such, but it is very strange and not much like the E.T. movie.

@richschmitt100

6 ай бұрын

The ride at Universal Studios, called ET Adventure, had a sequel premise.

@BrianDamageYT

5 ай бұрын

@richschmitt100 And some of the same characters as the Kotzwinkle book, like ET's teacher Botanicus, I believe. Makes me wonder if they were both derived from some non-Spielberg sequel project, or if one was based on the other.

@micks336

5 ай бұрын

Couldn't be as boring as the ET Atari game?

Spielberg has influenced the pop culture of the 80s so much. I thank him for the memories, since I was an 80s teen.

@Anninukichild

3 ай бұрын

For real..kids these days dunno how little we had but how we truly lived! And how cool it was.

@Pocketrocket-pj1us

3 ай бұрын

But what about George? He helped too, right?

@ridiculous_gaming

3 ай бұрын

@@Pocketrocket-pj1us I like Lucas, but there were such a plethora of Spielberg movies throughout the 80s that were so different and memorable. Actually, my favorite Lucas movie is American Graffitti

1 unmade Spielberg film I wish was made was Arkansas, which was supposed to be a western with Tom Cruise. Spielberg hasn’t done a western, so I always wanted to see what he would have done in that genre

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

Would love to see a Spielberg western

@Vash45Long

5 ай бұрын

Lincoln

@ArtSurvivesArtist

5 ай бұрын

Ha! Jewish Cowboy!

16:21 I learned the Oscars were a joke when Lord of the Rings lost to Chicago for best costumes. Like wtf! One production is buying vintage clothes. The other is making authentic chainmail by hand and crafting fictional cultures down to the most fine detail. Not to mention all the costumes they had to make for effects. Like identical sets for different scales. It's just no contest. The Oscars are just who was the most popular and who simped the hardest to the Academy.

@unbroken1010

3 ай бұрын

Took you long enough

The cancelled ET sequel would be turned into POLTERGEIST and GREMLINS, as both films were produced by Steven Spielberg.

@Pocketrocket-pj1us

3 ай бұрын

Yup and they're finally, finally, giving him some of the credit for Poltergeist, which I know for a near fact, is 90%. Comicons and going to the after parties, can be fun!! Great spirits and a little bit Weed can lead to Loose lips ;) Cheers from Montreal Quebec Canada

strangely enough there were a couple of fanzine articles about ET II in 83. this plot sounds familiar

I would love to see one on the Original Gremlins script which was an all out horror film - it's an interesting read. It's one film if remade using thst original Horror script would turn out to be an great horror.

@LN-Lifer

6 ай бұрын

When I saw it as a child I thought it was straight horror and it wrecked me. When part 2 came out I was a little older and so disappointed that they made it into a comedy I still thought part one was a horror movie for years after that until I rewatched and realized it took was a comedy. At that point I rewatched part 2 and finally appreciated it for how hilarious it is.

@Derp-rz1nn

5 ай бұрын

A while back I had looked up that first script, It was so much darker, the mom gets decapitated, the dog is killed, and has basically no comedy. It focused a lot more on Billy's fantasy art career, and the sword he has for part of the movie was a far bigger part in it.

@Mark-nh2hs

3 ай бұрын

@@Derp-rz1nn and from what I remember of the original script Billy wasn't that likeable. Lol

You left out an interesting story. Rick Baker wasn't the only one disappointed when Night Skies shut down. It was supposed to be directed by artist Ron Cobb. To make up for it Cobb was given a profit point in the then forthcoming E.T. which within a couple years made Cobb wealthy for the rest of his life. A friend remarked, "Whenever I saw Ron after that he was always smiling."

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

Yup! Would’ve been his directorial debut too I believe.

@davidjames579

6 ай бұрын

Spielberg and Lucas used to (still do?) give each other profit points on each other's movies. Can you imagine how much they make from those alone each year!

@Malum09

6 ай бұрын

@@davidjames579 From what i've read Lucas, Spielberg and John Milius agreed to exchange a percentage point of their movies Big Wednesday, Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind prior to the release of the three films since Spielberg was convinced Big Wednesday was going to be a huge hit.

@davidjames579

6 ай бұрын

@@Malum09 Millius really got a sweet deal there.

@Malum09

6 ай бұрын

@@davidjames579 he was laughing his way to the bank

Could you imagine a Spielberg Bond, Superman film or a horror version of ET?

Thank you for making longer videos. This is just pure gold.

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

Glad you like them!

11:18 - "...YOU ONLY MOVED THE HEADSTONES!!!! WHYYYYYY!?!?""

Why did that scene with a grown Elliott and his family on the couch with E.T. instantly drive me to tears? I haven't thought about that movie in years but it was everything to me as a 4 year old. ❤

In 1979 I worked with Dino DeLaurentis on "Jaws 3, people 0". Obviously they went with "3D" Instead, but the efx gags were epic.

I laughed out loud so hard listening to the synopsis for E.T. 2... I almost wish the studios had called Spielberg's bluff.

There are movies that are great that never needed a sequel, this is one of them

@detroitdiezel7856

6 ай бұрын

What is?

I love that you used Fire in the Sky for the ET 2 segment because that's what I had on my mind while watching.

The big twist of the ET sequel would have been ET being a Jedi Master!

@chadcunnington7152

2 ай бұрын

They were featured in Revenge Of The Sith, as one of the races in the Galatic Senate, so it's definitely plausible ...

My family and I got to meet Steven Spielberg, when we went to a showing of E.T., and I enjoyed meeting him. My parents invited him to eat with us, but he had to politely decline because of his schedule. Even though we enjoyed our visit, and the movie, I will forever be grateful for getting to meet Steven. He was so sweet and kind.

@Bulletsandblockbusters

5 ай бұрын

Very cool!

@unbroken1010

3 ай бұрын

Should have asked him how he knew about September 11 in advance

There's a lot of movies that there is no need for sequels.i love how they made close encounters that the ship was actually a city upside down

Man, all these twists and turns and connections between movies is kind of amazing.

Honey wake up, Bullets & Blockbusters uploaded a new video.

Watching what could be over 700 shark attacks sounds crazy and a real action packed flick. One you could definitely not have filmed back then and would be hard to do even in today. But a jaws prequel over quints tale sounds amazing and really shows mr Spielberg was ahead of the curve for a while. I know the prequel isnt something new but if he would have done it then it would have been a milestone or marker.

@GregorBarclay

6 ай бұрын

They did a tv movie of it in the early 90s that wasn’t too bad. Definitely not impossible to film.

@Ihatethewaythatyou

6 ай бұрын

@@GregorBarclay im sure its up there with the killer bee and fire ant movies of the 90s too.

@GregorBarclay

6 ай бұрын

It's more about the emotional toll on the guys in the water. A movie that was just an unbroken string of 700 shark attacks would be pretty fucking tedious.@@Ihatethewaythatyou

@davidjames579

6 ай бұрын

Apparently Spielberg did still consider making it over the decades. Although not as a Jaws movie. Last I heard he'd passed it over to his protege J.J. Abrams.

@Ihatethewaythatyou

6 ай бұрын

@@davidjames579 oooh. Thats some of the best news i heard all day. JJ could do the IP very well.

I recall Steve was totally changing how movies would work with blockbusters or though he wasn't totally responsible for all blockbusters or the idea for some, and the original blockbusters were mostly based on biblical or science fiction or war novels that came long before Steven was born, but he definitely changed movies in the 80s and how there made through technology and the art media of CGI of later years. Movies are totally inspired by those bygone time movies. Remakes are popular and retelling old stories or making reboots tied to old stories or films that were classics. Steven Spielberg a movie maker and storyteller, has brought many treasures to life in cinemas and on media a blockbusters champion, created some great movies and more importantly gave us a heroes or two, and villains that also have left their mark in movie history. And the films still roll out of the studios and we will continue to watch. Not all are Spielbergs movies, but still inspire us. It has been over a century of movies, almost 5 hundred years since the first movies were born from the 1900s till now? And bit before in 1889 the very first photo and movies and tha very first horror movies in sound etc. Spielberg 1980s to 2024.

I had a dream where ET returned to Earth 30 years later. Gertie is now grown up, married and has a little girl around 6 or 7 years old. The girl is told to take out the trash but comes back terrified because a troll in the shed called her Gertie and asked about her uncle, Elliot. That might make for a good sequel. Of course not it would need to be set 40 years later...

@ToMegaTherion616

5 ай бұрын

Cool

@ToMegaTherion616

5 ай бұрын

Gertue was really fucking annoying though

@erictaylor5462

5 ай бұрын

@@ToMegaTherion616 Well, she was a little kid, like 5 or 6. *ALL* little kids are annoying, even your own. You just don't see it as you are the result of thousands of generations of humans who did not find their own children annoying. If even one of your ancestors saw their own kid as annoying, you would not exist. Think about it. A baby is pointless, selfish, and lazy. They wake you in the night, they mess their diaper, they scream their head off at the slightest provocation... Yet every one of your ancestors decided to keep the annoying little shits.

I always wondered why Baker never stuck around for E.T.. Tempers and ego's man, they create entirely new realities. Fantastic doc.!!!

Never new he almost directed Superman. Lots of other great stuff in this video. Thank you.

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

I somehow got ahold of the ET2 treatment as a kid. It’s a terrible idea but the idea lived on in my mind. Always felt it was the inspirartion of Gremlins.

You’re seriously becoming my favorite channel. I’m always stoked when a new video is dropped!

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Well, the concept for "Night Skies" either had a massive impact on M. Night when he wrote "Signs", or it is one of those massive coincidences that do actually happen.

@SlickNik94

6 ай бұрын

There is an interview of him mentioning John Sayles' script as an inspiration on Signs.

@MandleRoss

6 ай бұрын

@@SlickNik94 Oh, cool! Then... CALLED IT! (i guess)

Spielberg really should have been given a Bond, James Bond film. there's still the option with the next film. He did get to work with Sean Connery for Indiana Jones and the last crusade, and Indy itself, is Spielberg's answer to Bond. Heck, James Cameron also would have made a good Bond, and technically he did with True Lies.

Your videos are always spectacular. Even with this topic, where I'd heard a lot of this, it's compiled and edited so well! I'm always excited to see these right when I notice they're available

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

Thank you I really appreciate that!

@EverettBurger

6 ай бұрын

This is a totally underrated channel

@jackcapellini113

6 ай бұрын

@@BulletsandblockbustersAt some point, you should definitely cover the original version of Back to the Future. I think there’s a lot of material to mine.

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

I think you just inspired next week’s video

Night Skies was intended to be a sequel to Close Encounters of the Third Kind, not E.T. The Extra Terrestrial. Elements of the unmade Night Skies script ended up being made into Poltergeist, E.T. The Extra Terrestrial, and the Stripe character in Gremlins.

I always wished Spielberg did SW films. He was going to make ROTJ, and I wish he did. You have Spielberg, George Lucas, and Lawrence Kasdan, the same trio behind Raiders Of The Lost Ark. If they made something that good, ROTJ could have been really epic. He also got offered Phantom Menace, and he would have pulled it off really well had he directed

@ScarysReviews

6 ай бұрын

it was Empire Strikes back.

@cinemaarts8795

6 ай бұрын

George Lucas likely would've been protective/controlling of SW since that's his baby.

@TypeLproductions

6 ай бұрын

@@cinemaarts8795George didn’t direct the movie anyways so might as well get Spielberg to help out

@cinemaarts8795

6 ай бұрын

@@TypeLproductions Remember on Empire Strikes Back, Lucas frequenetly butted heads with Irwin Kershner and Richard Marquand was basically a director in name only

@joshuablevins4340

6 ай бұрын

Return of the Jedi already was epic. If anything Spielberg would have made it worse, and it was pretty much perfect as is

Very cool video. I saw Jaws and Close Encounters in my parent's station wagon at the drive-in across the highway from where I grew up, Raiders and ET at the town theater. I've been a fan of Spielberg's work every since, this video was a real treat. I'm glad I stumbled on your channel. Happy new year to you and yours!

@stephenholland3801

5 ай бұрын

By the way, I love your channel name. In the early days of the internet there waws a site called Bullets and Beer dedicated to Robert B. Parker's Spenser novels, so your channel jumped out at me.

@Bulletsandblockbusters

5 ай бұрын

Thank you! And happy to have you aboard the new B&B. Happy new year!

That ET sequel sounds pretty good to me. Funny how Speilberg writes a script that he thinks would be too terrible to be made, but it probably would have been a HUGE HIT. I always figured the GREMLINS must be some kind of Alien invaders even though they never explained their origins. The original NIGHT SKIES story would have been a great film, too.

@morticiaheisenberg9679

5 ай бұрын

Lol. I absolutely would have watched that too

I'm a big fan of all your videos. They're always extremely interesting. This one was especially good. Lots of great information I've personally never heard before. Awesome job.

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

Thank you very much! Glad you dig them!

Can you just imagine if Spielberg had been able to direct Superman. That would have been epic.

@jessy1652

6 ай бұрын

@@cinemaarts8795and that’s completely fine

@davidjames579

6 ай бұрын

There's still time. Move aside James Gunn.....

@jimjo8541

6 ай бұрын

Superman was already epic wtf

@creepingdread88

5 ай бұрын

I don't think so. He struggled with a mechanical shark. Richard Donner, did a fantastic job of making Superman fly, it wasn't easy at the time. The film was great, I don't think Spielberg would have made a better film, especially after hearing his idea for Harry Potter!

The ET Sequel script I had read looked awesome and I would have loved to see it. ET would have came back to Earth with his own family, spouse, 2 daughters and 1 son. His son would have been like an 18 yr old on Earth. Once they arrived back on Earth, shortly after another species of aliens would arrive too but these aliens were not friendly at all and hunted ETs species. About 30 minutes into the movie, after ET met up with Elliot and they make plans for a wonderful time together, right after that moment the new species arrives and takes out ET and literally eats him. The new species cooks ET BBQ style like a pig roast over a camp fire. Elliot and ETs son walk over and see the new species eating ET and laughing about it. Then ETs son plans revenge and this is the moment the ET Sequel turns into like a Quentin Tarantino blood fest. Definitely a wild Sequel and wish we would have got it.

This is becoming the best behind the scenes of cinema channel by far.

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

I will be eternally greatful that Spielberg chose to keep his promise to George about directing Indy 3, because the Last Crusade is my favorite movie.

Excellent video! Although I knew a lot of the background on Spielberg's productions before (I was a big "Cinefantastique" magazine reader, and they covered much of this in depth), there was still a lot of info in your vid that I did not know before. THANKS!

@Bulletsandblockbusters

5 ай бұрын

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.

Love your videos, man. And as an Irish person, I really appreciate you making the distinction between British and Irish actors at 14:41

Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't there a ET Christmas special that went on some random streaming service

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

The Comcast commercial

No disrespect to Jaws but I always felt that Goldfinger was first true blockbuster.

Great video, as always! Great pacing, delivery and amount of juicy info. Couple of additional things: although Spielberg approached Cubby Broccoli after his successes with Jaws and Close Encounters, he originally approached him in 1974 about directing the next one. At this point his only theatrical release was The Sugarland Express, so for that reason Broccoli turned him down (the film although well reviewed didn't make a ton of money). However Spielberg had been on EON'S radar since 1971. Cubby's Stepson Michael G Wilson saw Duel in a cinema as it was extended and released theatrically in Europe. He was so blown away by Spielberg's direction, that he quite prophetically thought this guy is the future of film-making. He told Cubby about Duel, but for whatever reason no attempt was made to contact Spielberg. Finally his last encounter with Bond came when United Artists were trying to get him to sign a multi-picture deal. They used Bond as the carrot, but Spielberg pulled out when George Lucas told him Raiders was ready to be pitched to the studios. Although Gremlins shares some story elements with Night Skies the film originates from an original screenplay by Chris Columbus. Columbus wasn't hired to develop the idea for Spielberg as he'd written the script on spec as just a writing sample to show what he was capable of. Spielberg said it was one of the most original scripts he'd read and bought it. E.T itself has been said to have been somewhat inspired by a script for an unmade movie called The Alien. Written by and intended to be filmed by legendary Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray, it circulated Hollywood in the late 60's when he was trying to get funding for it. Spielberg denied seeing the script saying he was in High School when it was floating round Hollywood. But that's not actually true, as he graduated High School in 1965, and when copies of the script were being distributed around, he was already working for Universal. Spielberg denies ever seeing the script, but even if he didn't in the late 60's, he may have afterwards as the script remained much talked about in Hollywood. Amazingly Spielberg's friend Martin Scorsese endorsed this when he said in an interview that "I have no qualms in admitting that E.T. was influenced by Ray's Alien. Even Sir Richard Attenborough (Jurassic Park) pointed this out to me". The Times Of India who printed this interview themselves said Close Encounters also had "remarkable parallels with The Alien". Spielberg also offered Schindler's List to Sydney Pollack and to Roman Polanski, a real life Holocaust Survivor who turned it down because it was too close to his own experience. He would later change his position to make his own Oscar Winning film about The Holocaust, The Pianist. Robert De Niro wasn't cast as the lead in Cape Fear by Martin Scorsese bearing in mind how many films they've made together, but by Spielberg when he was still attached. Spielberg was at one time planning to direct Big but starring Harrison Ford! He pulled out as the script was written by his sister Ann, he didn't want to overshadow her achievement. In the 90's, Spielberg developed a Doctor Who movie that never happened, being a fan of the series. He was also in line to direct Little Shop Of Horrors. And also an animated version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, Cats.

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

All great points and well said

@richschmitt100

6 ай бұрын

He didn’t mention that Spielberg first feature film he was going to direct was the Burt Reynolds film, White, lightning in 1973 for United artist. He was signed and ready to develop it, but backed out at the last minute to do Sugarland expressed.

It's easy to have read this info about Spielberg over the years, a piece at a time, but damn this is really, really well made story here, and puts all those events into a timeline and with context. Nice job. Fun watch.

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it

You are currently my favorite KZread channel. Congrats.

@Bulletsandblockbusters

4 ай бұрын

Wow, thanks!

Always excited about a new video dude. Great job. So cool.

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Excellent video! Pretty top-notch on TOP of being rather informative. I'm pretty surprised, you did not at least quickly mention that _A.I._ had been Kubrick's next film project after he'd finished _Eyes Wide Shut,_ but when Kubrick died finishing up EWS, Steve agreed/promised to take over _A.I._ directing it...and taking off wherever Kubrick left off or usin' what Kubrick had left behind meant to be used on the film's development/production!!!

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

Thank you! I really appreciate that. Glad you enjoyed it. AI wasn't mentioned because the video is about Spielberg's unmade films. But maybe in the future I'll do a video on Kubrick's AI.

I would have been so scared to be even a background character in jaws... would've been a jolly good time.

Good work. Like how quiet the background music is, it's chill. Subbed :)

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

Thanks and welcome aboard!

I am glad that e.t. never got a sequel

I love these behind the scenes, did you know? Type videos, well done! Subbed!

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

Thanks and welcome aboard!

Brilliant stuff ❤ Always interesting on your channel

Speilberg is one of the greats

For years, i've thought that an ET horror sequel would be amazing if done right because ET was really scary to look at to many kids, and making a bunch of creepy scary ETs is easy... but they should keep them brown. But I dont they have what it takes to make an amazing scary ET film

I’d like to see a video about Tim Burton’s unmade films.

@ScarysReviews

6 ай бұрын

well, 2% of his Superman was made, and Beetlejuice 2 is done

Thanks for the amazing information ❤

WE ABSOLUTELY LOVE YOUR CHANNEL ❤❤❤❤❤ THANK YOU 😊

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

Thank you!!!!

Great stuff. One of your best so far.

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

Thanks!

The difference between a good director and a great director: "Shooting on water is hard." Spielberg: Well I'll never do it again. Cameron: Well I'll just do it even more.

I watched E.T. In the 1st grade I was E.T. crazy, I’m glad there was no sequel let alone a horror version, that would’ve ruined my childhood

Just gotta say ET 2 sounds awesome.

Honestly I wish they would release a cut of E.T. that includes more deleted material and the alternate ending.

The e.t sequel sounds good and fun. I wish they made it.

Cool vid! What were some of the movie clips you showed that weren't named? Particularly the alien ones?

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

Thnx. Fire in the sky.

@ryankramer4641

6 ай бұрын

@@Bulletsandblockbusters Thanks! Henry Thomas is in it, funny! Haha

4:03 to add to this, John Hancock was hired because of the modest success of *Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971)* Hancock's idea was an Amity that was going bankrupt and near deserted, to show the impact of the prior movie events. The people of Provincetown did NOT want to close their shops, and the studios thought that it would be too dour. It's also amazing how much the Hopkinsville incident inspired movies. *Night of the Living Dead (1968)* was inspired by this event, which then led to inspire *Assault on Precinct 13.*

If he never got an award, I wonder if he could live with the title of "the best director in history".

E.T.II. He's back, he's pissed off and he DOESN'T wanna phone home!!

Hooper directed Poltergeist. As Executive Producer, of course Spielberg had a major influence. The rumour that Spielberg directed came from one guy on the crew. Everyone else has gone on record stating that Tobe Hooper directed.

Great content indeed, thanks for the gem !

Crazy how Spielberg was going to make a black history pic when he thought Jaws was gonna flop, then ditched it once Jaws was a box office success

@davidjames579

6 ай бұрын

In his defense he knew Close Encounters was too experimental and expensive to get made if Jaws flopped. Believing it would he looked for something more conventional and lower budgeted. For the revolutionary-ness of telling Black History and with a mainly Black cast, the script itself is quite a conventional film. When Jaws was the highest grossing film of all time he left the film he only decided on for a job, and went back to his expensive passion project.

@michaelwills1926

6 ай бұрын

“As needed” is the M.O. in that world

3:16 James Cameron heard this, and was like "I'm going to make a movie underwater, one on water, then another underwater" lol

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

LMAO

Looking forward to Bullets & Blockbusters' future video about "The Boys in the Boat". Loved the book. Saw years ago that Kenneth Branagh was attached to direct. But, the one coming out next week is directed by George Clooney. I'm curious about how the two versions of this true story were visualized by the two different directors. What was left out? What was emphasized? etc.

Jaws 2 would have been much better. Night Skies would have been a good film. It was probably for the best there wasn't an ET sequel. Seeing Spielberg direct Harry Potter would have been cool, but Warner Bros ideas were way better and we got a near perfect franchise. Spielberg and Return of the Jedi is a big What If? He would have directed it, but the Director's Guild blocked him from doing it due to their feud with Lucas. Richard Marquand directed it, but Lucas was so hands-on on set, that many say Lucas essentially ghost directed it himself (Like Spielberg on Poltergeist). The film would have likely been similar, but would some things like the Ewoks been left out if Spielberg was in charge and would Lucas have been more hands off and took a similar role to what he had on the Raiders set. Many interesting questions on that one.

@ScarysReviews

6 ай бұрын

Jaws 2 is awesome how it is.

I kinda wish ET got a sequel. The ride at universal is kinda a sequel

@detroitdiezel7856

6 ай бұрын

The ride at Universal is hot garbage! It's nothing more than a cheap knockoff of "It's a Small World" but with loud, low end, ugly and obnoxious aliens.

Great video. thanks!

Cool vid, very interesting and informative!

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

Thanks!

Oh my gosh, I just had a flashback: checking out the current and up coming movies in the newspaper

@Bulletsandblockbusters

5 ай бұрын

I used to do that too. Seems like an eternity ago

@dansweda712

5 ай бұрын

@@Bulletsandblockbusters just the other day I seen a vehicle with a flashing light on its roof, it was someone home delivering newspapers at 4:30am, I thought, " how nostalgic"

Given ET’s species apparently living in the “Star Wars” galaxy, I like to think that’s where E.T returned too…but it happened at the height of the Empire’s reign. When E.T saw that kid in the Yoda costume, he thought it was *the* Yoda and that’s where he’s been hiding this whole time. When he comes home, he starts running his mouth about it, and some higher ups in the Empire *really* wanted to talk to him.

This is proof that he’s hit and miss with his movies.

You forgot that there was a early version of “The Fabelmans” title: “I'll Be Home”. Spielberg development the film in late 90's. The film was also set to be written by Anne Spielberg (the sister of Steven).

Hollywood never lets a good idea go to waste.

this is a really informative video

I won't lie, despite my nostalgia for the Harry Potter series, I would love to see a version using the same art direction and animation as Tin Tin. Not sure I'd want multiple books combined into one movie, but from a visual standpoint, it would be very interesting to see.

19:18 Yep 😅 I THOUGHT I recognized that barn door with the "blinking light" bttf

Damn that ET sequel would have been fire.

David Lynch unmade movies next?

Very interesting. I grew up on many of these films.

No joke, a ET horror sequel is actually interesting to me.

“Spielberg’s most personal and prolific film, Schindler’s List” - that’s not what prolific means

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

Haha you’re right. Not sure how I made that mistake

could you imagine Steven Spielberg Directed and made live action movie Alice in wonderland and have Jim Carrey play mad hatter and Dakota Fanning play Alice and could you imagine Steven Spielberg directed and made live action movie inspector Gadget being played by Robin Williams

I was a kid in the early '50s. One of the first books I read was about two kids who discover a stranded alien, and help him build what he needs to get back to his planet in the Andromeda galaxy. That little guy sang a song that included "...from Andromeda galaxy", informing the kids that his planet wasn't even in our galaxy. The first time I saw "E.T.", I thought of that little book, and tried to locate a copy. It was NOwhere. I've never seen a trace of it since, even with the vast knowledge the internet brought. Coincidence? Um....

Okay, "Rain Man" was a great movie, a landmark film, but I can't imagine my youth would have been the same without experiencing the Indiana Jones trilogy as directed by Spielburg. I'm glad he kept his agreement with George Lucas. Lucas was a genius in creating Star Wars, but he doesn't always do well when directing his own stuff.

The first ET was already a horror movie. It traumatized me for years.

Very well researched! I'm enjoying your channel. It's always interesting to see the films that could have been made by a director, and how last minute decisions, infighting, and a host of other events change that.

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

Thanks!