Narrowly averted disasters? Or epically lost opportunities?
became a worldwide phenomenon in 1982, director Steven Spielberg, despite being famously averse to making sequels, teamed withThe result of their collaboration was a nine-page film treatment entitled. In it, Elliot, Gertie, and Michael cross paths with evil carnivorous aliens who have come to earth looking for E.T. The evil aliens hold the kids captive on their ship, where they interrogate them about E.T.'s whereabouts — and nearly kill Elliot with their razor-sharp teeth! In the end, E.T.
Though the treatment is short and not fleshed out, it doesn't sound...great. Perhaps that's why Spielberg declined to pursue it any further.Hal Garb / Getty Images/Paramount/ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)was based on a novel of the same name by Winston Groom. So, when Groom released a follow-up novel,Eric Roth — who won Best Adapted Screenplay for the original film — went to work on a sequel.
Roth turned in his script on Sept. 10, 2001. The next day, of course, was 9/11, which changed everything. Roth , when he met up with Tom Hanks to discuss the draft, “We looked at each other and said, ‘This movie has no meaning anymore.'", which would have — you guessed it — seen Kermit and Co. going to the past.In 2001, three years before the Jim Henson Company sold the Muppets to Disney (which went on to make its own Muppet films, like 2011’s
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