"Oh no, they said no to my incredibly horrible sequel. I guess the original will have to remain a perfectly done, self contained, finished and closed project. What. A. Shame."
@@tracywalker6813 Tim Burton actually wrote the script because the studios were on his back to make sequels so he wrote the worst sequel he could think of.
As others have mentioned, the awfulness does seem almost intentional on Spielberg’s part. The aliens are evil so they have red eyes. The kids endure torture by remembering their LARPing. E.T. comes in like an action hero. The aliens evidently resume their war and it’s supposed to be a happy ending. It’s all just so BAD that I honestly think it’s more likely that Spielberg really wrote this to kill off sequel plans.
Huh, kinda like how Gremlins 2 killed off the possibilities of any further sequels. Except Gremlins 2 is a great sequel while being a deconstruction of the first film.
The official story is that Spielberg was under pressure from Universal execs for a sequel to ET. He was resistant to this but agreed to write a story treatment. However he deliberately made the story dark and unpleasant, the complete opposite to the original film as he wanted to put the execs off the idea of a sequel. And sure enough it worked and the execs agreed not to do a sequel
Spielberg was the ultimate studio executive troll. Between this sabotage punk job and the reverse psychology ploy to secure Back To The Future retain its title and not be renamed Space-Man From Pluto, as was highly suggested and pushed for. It seemed like Spielberg's entire side-hustle f*cking with The Suits to stay out of The Creatives lane. These hilarious snow jobs of Spielberg are obvious to anyone not in the eye of the Hollywood sh*t-storm who can't see the forest for the trees with their oversized bloated heads up their own out of their depth asses. They at least weren't so braindead so as to know well enough that the commercial prospects for this ridiculously franchise killing proposal was a career ender and to just leave it alone and walk away. This is the crucial critical problem solving skill-set and baseline common sense gene I feel massively and completely missing from current Disney brain trust Empire and their sith lord Kathleen Kennedy whom this subtle, but obvious colossal company wide financial misstep of a creative direction for a red hot IP would be painfully apparent, but absolutely still wildly lost on KK and her misfit band of Mary Sues. She would not only give it the greenlight, she'd let Spielberg film three quarters of the movie before releasing him from the director's chair, hiring a film school student trust fund baby or Ron Howard to come in and reshoot the movie, but with even more misguided soul-crushing narrative detours, containing even way less commercial prospects and then really doubling down on the utter lack of anything close to a likable, reasonable or ethical character, perhaps hint of something maybe resembling a value system, code of conduct or trace of morality, and then making everything even that much more incoherent, indecipherable and unholy and wrong, ignore your shareholders concerns, attack the decades long built up fanbase, gaslight any and all loyal or potentially new customers, slander the names of any respected media outlet or highly reputable news source for any criticism of corporate content with it's concerning red flag cult-like agenda bias in its overt propaganda and all the subtle subliminal messaging of a blunt force trauma tire iron to the windpipe. But, I digress. Spielberg rules.
The thing that made E.T. interesting is that we never got much insight into what the aliens are like. We knew E.T.’s crew were nonviolent researchers or explorers, but we didn’t get any longwinded exposition, or a look at their home planet. All this “E.T. lore” about evil rival clans and such is so unnecessary and actually detracts from what made the original special. I can only presume Spielberg did not take this script seriously because he didn’t want it made in the first place.
Timbrock1000 I would’ve been interested to see the sequel get made Seriously the Albino Asogians (E.T.’s) were interesting heck even their decade war was also interesting it didn’t have to be a movie but I could’ve been a live action or animated Tv series
@@scorpiusrexman1017 You could make a standalone film about kids who had rescued a sweet lovable alien a couple of years back and then meet sweet-lovable-alien's not-so-lovable cousins.
@@camerongage1237 well considering the Jedi hunt down and try to exterminate or forcefully convert most force users except for a few extremely dangerous ones (like the witches of Dathomir), he was either a Jedi or barely gifted in the force at all.
The enemies hunting him could just be looking for force sensitive beings to recruit to their side or ELIMINATE. I can see this story and all the lore be flushed out and further developed in a good fan-fic.
To be fair, this probably would've went through half a dozen rewrites. It's only a plot synopsis, not a script. Sometimes very little of the original concept ends up in a finished script.
To be fair, the original had it's fair share of scary moments and a creepy tone to it. But, this just feels wrong. Plus, Spielberg had said all he intended to say with the first E.T. This would have been unnecessary.
I always thought that E.T. was a child who got lost on a rest stop but as it turns out, he was really a fugitive super soldier that can single-handedly take out an enemy force. Who knew??
I read this 'treatment' online a couple of years ago and was immediately convinced it was a fan-made fake because of a) bad typos that Spielberg and Melissa Mathison would've known better and b) details that contradicted (or at the least very bizarrely interpreted) lines of dialogue from the first film.
Anyone who grew up in the 80’s or 90’s and hears any movie sequel name that has 2 at the end of it,will always hear “Electric Boogaloo” in their heads..It’s like a strange curse
Interestingly enough, despite the fact that this movie never got made, it was still the basis/setting for the E.T. ride at Universal Studios in Orlando.
It is really difficult to imagine how this sequel would have panned out. The final version of the sequel, had it been made, probably would've ended up different than the plot treatment. Meaning the problems and issues may have been ironed out in rewrites. Spielberg would've gotten push-back on things like the kids being tortured and E.T. only appearing toward the end.
You’re totally right. I just can’t imagine the studio reading this and even green lighting it in the first place. Like you said, there’d be a TON of re-writes inbound.
The sequel would have tarnished the image of the original. It definitely would have robbed the original of its virginity. I admire Spielberg for not going through with making a sequel. Kudos to him. And moreover, E.T. had the perfect ending. It's a bittersweet moment.
I still love the idea that in Spielberg's "War of The Worlds" E.T's species were the invading aliens as a twist that would only be revealed right at the very end. I think it'd be a pretty cool twist that the sweet,lovable alien was actually a scout for an invasion force sent to asses Earth's capabilities.
We do have an official sequel though. And yes, its official and Spielberg approved. In the form of a 4 minute xfinity commercial. Henry Thomas reprises his role as Elliot and ET meets his family for christmas.
They should have made this years later as a horror. The original was like a horror to me. I was terrified of it as a kid, especially the scene where ET is screaming in the bushes. Made my blood run cold. Everyone thought he was cute. I thought he was freaky. Oddly enough I now love horror and sci fi and have watched all sorts and I am not scared by any films, other than two films. I still can't watch ET and the only other film that gives me sleepless nights is Fire in the Sky. I enjoyed this video thanks dude.
Whew, that was awful. I would come close to accusing Spielberg of purposely writing something awful in order to sabotage a sequel and prevent it from happening. I mean, who on Earth would think this trash was even close to the quality of the first story? The whole idea of evil carnivorous E.T.s, warring factions, child torture...what the hell is this? Lol!
It sounds litteraly exactly like "Gremlins," set in space. I can just see it now..."Eliot!! Did you accidentally feed ET after midnight again?"Eliot opens curtains in his room to reveal a nasty, Gremlin-ized evil version of ET, standing outside Eliot's window in the dark slowly attempting to light a cigarette off of his famous glowing finger while smiling evily in the dark. The whole family then together groans like out of a Scooby Doo comic relief moment, "Ohh man, not again!...Eliot!" Eliot smiles sheepishly, shrugging his shoulders while looking directly into the camera. Wahmp! Whamp! Whaaaaaah!
Spoiler, they all die in horrifically violent and gory detail, including a now deleted scene where Drew Barrymore's character is some how shoved into a microwaveby the evil ET, and she explodes just like in the first "Gremlins" movie. Of course because of that, this movie had to incorporate the new MPAA approved Spilberg invented PG-13 rating so that parents know the worst thing your kid will see is tons of violence and gore and maybe hear 1 f-bomb, but thank god, none of that dreaded nudity or even worse, sex or mentions of sex in any way or form. Those are not natural things your child should see, unlike enough blood and gore to equal the first 20 minutes of the D-Day opening of "Saving Private Ryan," that's totally cool though. (Let's be real, we all know that movie was rated R simply because Tom Sizemore was in it, it's pretty much court ordered in anything he's involved in not involve or be viewed by any minors whatsoever. So anyways, "ET: Numero Dos." ...yuuup...
I remember when I was in elementary school when this movie came out and there was a book about the second part of ET. It was not like the script that you read. It was called “the green planet” I think. It had Eliot going to ET’s planet.
Literally several years after the fact. But I like the idea. You have to understand this is just a first pass treatment. The hardest part of doing anything, much less something creative, is just to DO IT. Put something on paper and work it out with all the other executives, writers, assistant directors, actors all of it. Hell, Ghostbusters was set as on the moon with all kinds of crazy spectacle scifi nonsense and was supposed to be more action horror. This treatment sounds like it has all the key plot elements. It's not exactly horror, just the mention of D&D and having the kids rely on it during the interrogation part says to me Spielberg wanted to go more Goonies, like an adventure type. I see a lot of extremes here, which is what you want. A wild concept that just grabs your attention, then when you're actually working up a full script you adjust and change it. It's sounds bizarre because it's pre-first draft. Imagine where this could have gone. We spend some time hanging out with everyone, the kids go to the forest. I see that whole scene being the crux of the second act. They hide, outwit and out maneuver the evil aliens in a mix of Frodo and the Hobbits running from the Ring Wraiths and the kids from the Goonies Home Alone-ing some crazy D&D/Fantasy based contraption traps. They eventually get captured and questioned mentally. This plays out less like torture and more like making the kids relive memories. You can still have them screaming out for E.T. so he can show up at the end but when they do maybe they crash into a mountain or blow up in space. A type of ending that is a little more effects and action oriented. We come full circle by saying goodbye to him again, but maybe this time Elliott goes with E.T.? Anyway, from what I know of writing and what goes from the beginning stages to the end product what you usually end up doing is taking the high points you really believe in and keeping those moments and trimming off and changing a lot of the rest of the surrounding story. As is, somebody has some problems sure. But as something to pick apart and make into an adventure movie? This sounds like it would have been a lot of fun.
E.T. Home world was so trippy love that ride thou I wonder how long till it’s replaced first back to the future then jaws E.T. Is living on borrowed time
Thanks for digging this up. I had no idea this treatment existed. In late 1982 we were told by our local film office that Mr. Speilberg had come to our home town (Oroville, California) to look at the dam as a location for the sequel. The tallest earth fill in the US. Its 300 feet taller than Hoover Dam. Movies have been shot here before. Most noteably The Outlaw Jose Wales in 1976. Nothing came of their visit and I forgot about it. And after you presented this. I now know why. Oooof. This is probably a paid first treatment meant to tank the sequel.
I remember reading a sequel book to the ET movie, it was also depressing. Took place over a number of years as Elliot got on with his life and ET tried to meet with Elliot again. I believe ET ended up dying while trying to make it back to Earth.
@@RYMAN1321 I assumed it was official. I believe I found it in the school libary one day. Name of the story is "E.T.: The Book of the Green Planet". Reading some reviews, they all seem to say this is a funny and touching story. No one mentioning E.T. died. Maybe I'm not remembering the ending properly. What people say about the book's plot lines up with my memory of the story though. Oh, another reacer stated that ET didn't die, but he and Elliot never managed to reunite by the end of the story. The ship didn't blow up? Didn't something bad happen at the end?
"Hey, make a sequel!" "No than..." "Yup, make a sequel!" "I really don't think..." "Don't think, make a sequel!" "Okeydokey ..." Later. "Here's a script ..." "Oh! Oh, no ... No." "No sequel, then?" "Nope! No need. Nope, no thank you. Onwards and upwards, right? Yeah ..."
I remember reading about the original version of ET called Night Skies that was a completely different darker story before Harrison Fords wife rewrote it. I guess Spielberg wanted to bring some of his original ideas back for the sequel.
I don't think it was ever supposed to. It sounds like it was specifically designed to be shot down by the studio, his way of making sure that there wouldn't be a sequal.
Funny thing is this is just a first draft, movies usually go through multiple drafts, so much more would be filled in and added to the script. That said, this script is good enough for Netflix, they wouldnt even ask for another draft.
ET stands for extraterrestrial therefor the fact that the film is named ET II does not automatically assume that the original alien, nicknamed "ET" by the kids, would be featured throughout the entire film. To be honest, done right, this would have been a lot better than doing what is done with so many sequels, that being a rehash of the first film made just for the money.
Guys and gals the only reason you saw some ETs in the Phantom Menace was because George Lucas and Stephen Spielberg are best friends and they were just in a friendly rivalry in their respective movies. ET is not part of the Star Wars Galaxy. It was a joke on Lucas behalf after you saw Spielberg put Yoda in ET assuming that ET came from the Star Wars Galaxy. It was really a nod to that.
The Asogians are part of the SW galaxy. “Yes. As a gag/easter egg/cross-merchandizing/friendly jest/whatever, Spielberg and Lucas have placed enough canon information in their universes to imply that E.T. really is an alien from a species in a Star Wars Galaxy”
@@pyenapple ok grammar police, that's got nothing to do with his opinion, not everyone is great with grammar, that doesn't mean their opinions can't be valid...
Every time I go on a rant about movies that were or could've been ruined by a sequel I use E.T. as an example. But I would've never guessed it could've been so bad.
The original ET does have parts that Spielberg plays like a horror film, specifically the opening where ET is being chased is shot like one, so it doesn’t seem that crazy that he might lean into that even more a second time around. It is interesting though, because this combined with how Poltergeist started as a horror sequel to Close Encounters of the Third Kind makes it sound like this was an idea Spielberg had kicking around in his head that he couldn’t shake. How ET is called back in at the end to save the the kids also sounds like how Zelda Rubinstein character is brought in, in Poltergeist. The date of that treatment is a the month after Poltergeist comes out too, so he may have been thinking of returning to the sci-fi version that went unmade but with ET this time around. It does however also remind me of a story with Spielberg I heard where he got a studio note on a movie that was so dumb (I can remember from who, may have been Jon Peters) that he sent a note back saying he showed it to the crew and everyone loved the joke the producer had sent them. So maybe he just did it so the studio would leave him alone? But this horror sequel is something he almost just did with Close Encounters, and the version of it that ended up being made dropped all the sci-fi stuff he wanted.
Im not sure if Im telling you something you already know but he made ET and Poltergeist at the same time, but due to either inane Labor Laws, or some agreement, he couldnt direct both at the same. So that is why Toby Hooper was brought in to direct Poltergeist, while Spielberg produced it.
@@dezznutz3743 Yeah, he couldn’t do Poltergeist at the time because he was filming ET. Spielberg had an idea to do a horror sequel to Close Encounters of the Third Kind that seems like it became a version of ET that was never made, and the original sci-fi version of Poltergeist. Hooper was brought in to do the horror Close Encounters sequel but wasn’t interesting in doing a sci-fi movie...but he did have a hunted house movie he wanted to do some they worked on that, and it sounds like Spielberg came up with the end which also happens to sound a lot like the end of this but with aliens. To me this is interesting because it seems like it was Spielberg’s third try at the idea, and it’s happening so closely to the release of ET and Poltergeist. It’s also the second time he’s trying to follow up one of his previous movies, but with a movie that shifts the genre. Although I could easily see something that’s the tone of Poltergeist as a sequel to ET. Thinking about it now, Hooper would end up doing something that sounds kind of similar to this too a few years later when he remade Invaders from Mars.
I remember a lot of people at the time said that Gremlins started as E.T. 2. That's pretty odd because the only references to Mogwai being aliens were in the novelizations, though that's changing with Secrets of the Mogwai.
I always envisioned a sequel taking place in semi modern time where Elliot has been in a coma for some time and the story centers around gertie, who is her brother's caretaker now, maybe a reporter, maybe a radio astronomer.Michael's like a whacked out hippie conspiracy theorist, who just happens to be right most of the time. Elliot's mom and keys are an item, and the agency he worked for has become far more insidious since he left, strike teams, drones, post 9/11 Patriot act type stuff. not just making contact but exploiting first contacts. Seeing visitors for what resources humankind could take from them versus fostering good relations.A darker Arc for fans who grew up with ET, but in the end everyone coming together to reunite Elliot and ET. Maybe the only way Elliott can live is to go with ET this time.
They could still do a decent one - yes, all these years later - and incorporate some of these elements, but focus 40 years later on a terminal illness that Elliott's kid has (or Elliott himself). The rest is not for free here ;)
The sequel I always understood that was to happen since the mid 1980's it seems was where it would show E.T. going back to his homeward and what all would happen there. That was the clear point was that it would be beautiful and revealing...
In a way, I kinda wish this had got made as it's interesting. It would have been really dark for a family movie though so probably best it wasn't made.
Wow. There is no way he ever intended to make this movie. I always really enjoyed the sequel novel "E.T.: The Book of the Green Planet". Of course, it wouldn't have made a very good movie.
You guys are crazy if you don't think this sounds incredibly interesting! Of course, it definitely needs a better ending. ET or "Zrek" needs to waste the bad guys, not send them away. He needs to go full Super Saiyan and use his heart-light to melt their faces off like at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Actually they need to go to war and light the whole town on fire, it needs to be like at the end of First Blood. The kids being tortured might seem ruthless, but it gives the story some real stakes, PLUS it's more in tune with our own (alleged) interaction with aliens. There are lots of horrifying and supposedly real stories about alien abductees being tortured, and this dark story resonates with that. Also, the original ET was way more dark than you guys realize. One of the most terrifying things I ever saw as a kid was ET lying on the bathroom floor looking like a chalky white corpse, it was straight out of a nightmare! You guys think the whole movie was about them dressing up for Halloween and having fun with ET, heck no, there were guys with guns trying to kill him! Damn, this has to get made. Just give me the resources and I'll make the sequel!
Sounds like Spielberg was just hedging his bets in case he had the opportunity to make a second film. That treatment reads to me like something he cobbled together as a gesture of possible intent , not a final idea at all , given the metamorphosis movie scripts regularly go through.
I'd like to see this as it's own thing and not just a sequel to E.T. I think there's potential for it to be it's own effective horror movie. Maybe it could be one of those take a classic 80s movie and turn it into a horror movie concepts. Idk
The true horror "sequel" to ET was Xtro, which was not a bad movie in the 80s. The first appearance of the titular character made the rounds in "nightmare fuel" videos on UA-cam.
So they wanted to call it Nocturnal Fears and not Night Terrors, which is a title that means the same thing and is actually a recognizable idiom? Sounds like the mistakes began right from the beginning.
"Nocturnal Emissions" is a much better title. It could be about alien broadcasts that cause weird dreams, about the looming threat of a space invasion. And also it's a coming-of-age story about Elliott, dealing with the messy outcome of his dreams when he wakes up. Now that's what I call a sticky situation!
Other context aside the biggest hint this wasn't a genuine attempt at writing a treatment is that it basically boils down to "Protagonist misses alien, gets tortured, tortured, tortured, and wrap it all up in a line or two." There's just no story there even extrapolating what details we can.
I have recurring dreams of the redwood forest in the beginning. Everything in that movie just creeps me out. As a horror junkie, I'm always slightly annoyed with myself that E. fucking T. is one of the few movies I have a hard time watching.
@@MattGarZero as a kid I had a toy of et. It was in my toy chest underneath another toy. I moved the toy on top away and the et toy jump scared me. I hated et ever since.
The only sequel that could work... and honestly is the only sequel we all want to see.. is *ET versus Mac* with a cameo of *Nukie* in a post-credits scene.
When the evil aliens interrogated elliot by slapping him with their long fingered hands creaming at him where is he; elliot responded right there showing his head! And with his screams of despair E.T. listened and by wearing his hyper space suit he became super E.T. and came to the rescue! Seriously i cannot fathom that this was a script worked on by spielberg him self for a freaking sequel,its a good thing they scrapped that one out for our lives! Blood thirsty alien species and an E.T. showing up in the last scene??? Ok if you want to make a horror movie spoof from someone else i can go with that,but an E.T. sequel should be more heart warming and family friendly i believe having the beloved character returns for more trouble to earth or something,with the scientists chasing them again etc.Not a wild alien bloodthirsty enemy race that looking for the peaceful alien! Yes you could go with that concept but without the wild aliens stuff,having the "vilainous" race looking for the alien for captivity and stuff for instance because in the previous movie they landed accidentally on earth,and the other race looking humans for interrogation.And having the earth with some kind of danger & threat from again the "vilainous" race because of this whole mess.And E.T. & friends helping resolving that issue in the end returning all to their homes! A simple story line like that would be a much better sequel and i am not a freaking writer or something!
Not defending this idea for a sequel, but it seems that Spielberg might have been trying to flip the formula. What I mean is that instead of ET being hunted, captured and clinically examined, it is now Elliot being captured and tortured. I also like how the evil aliens detected Elliot's distress call and came to Earth. But yeah, not a good sequel.
There was a 1983 ET 2 Story treatment with no subtitle by Steven Speilberg which had a simpler story of E.T. being sick on his home planet and his people coming back to earth to bring Elliot to E.T.'s planet detecting that they still have a mental bonding. After Elliot helps E.T. get better they try to put Elliot in their planet's 'zoo' which also showcases the plantlife they gathered from Earth. Elliot slowly shows he can't survive in E.T.'s planet's atmosphere either and E.T. must save him this time from an autopsy. This time their mental bond is more solidly broken. E.T. returns Elliot home. Now I got to grab the story treatment to actually find the exact details of some things but if I am correct, in this version Zrech is revealed to be ET's name on his planet. On ET's planet supposedly plant life hums in various musical tones in the zoo scenes. ET is supposedly banned from space flight for learning a verbal language instead of telepathic communication of his planet. Supposedly, ET has a family, but his family only has one scene they are mentioned in. This story treatment was a copy attached to E.T. storyboards and a E.T. synopsis scxript for the first film. Mixed in to these story boards there are a few Raiders of the Lost Ark storyboards as well. Since script like copies of it were circulating with like thick blue covers in a 1984 sci fi convention, which is where I got mine, I am supposing it's sourced from a legit leak. I also have Star Wars early scripts from that year and Star Trek 3 story treatment which reads more like a tv show episode than a movie.
Also keep in mind Steven also said years later that his first aborted sequel idea was given to Chris Columbus who had a similar story idea and then Gremlins was created.
Fun Fact!! E.T. gave me ATLEAST 3 horrible experiences in the Pamida grocery store, with my parents, due to me more or less, throwin a decent sized hissy fit, due to the denial of the candy that i had never had, yet newly discovered, Reeses Pieces ! LOL
I vaguely remember as a kid talk about a secret E.T. sequel called E.T. Nasty that was a horror movie. Can't find anything about it on the internet though.
The most interesting aspect of the treatment was th confirmation that Keys had met his own E.T. (or that specific E.T.) when he was younger. In the film, I always read it as him telling Elliot what he wanted to hear to capture E.T. for the government.
Great story and certainly an interesting piece of Spielberg history but definitely not something that we really needed. The original movie is fantastic and fine just the way it is and I truly believe that Spielberg made the right decision to avoid any sequels or spinoffs from ET.
i recently had the tought : what if ET and "2001 : a space odissey" where in the same universe ? like elliot afther meeting ET becomes an astronaut in order to meet his alien friend again , and then he hears abt the obelisc and pushes to go to the saturn mission specifically because he know that he might find somenthing abt his friend , and then the whole plot of 2001 space odissey appens ... i tought of it as a bad idea : they are such tonally different movies that putting them togheter would just be confusing , kinda like how "the force awakens" and "the last jedi" (star wars) where completely different movies tonally but got lumed togheter ... needless to say i'd like to make the Spilberg/Kubrick shared universe , just for fun
Gremlins 2 didn't degrade Gremlins. Ghostbusters II didn't degrade Ghostbusters. If he felt so strongly, he wouldn't have allowed Indiana Jones 4. This sounds like the inspiration for Stranger Things. But nowhere near as good, in its current form.
"Oh no, they said no to my incredibly horrible sequel. I guess the original will have to remain a perfectly done, self contained, finished and closed project. What. A. Shame."
Maybe this was Spielberg giving the finger to universal. Trying to make something sounding so horrible that Universal decides against it.
This was my thought. Universal was probably drooling at the idea of a franchise and Spielberg wrote this treatment simply as a way to shut that down.
I agree. The treatment sounds like something they threw together in an hour to shut someone up who wouldn't let the idea go.
You know it's bad if the movie studio responsible for making "Jaws 3D" passes on capitalizing off of "Spielberg and His Magical 80s Movie Mojo" lmfao!
Yeah that's a pretty plausible explanation for why Spielberg would even do that in the first place
"It's Tintin, riding a velociraptor, riding Jaws!"
I'm pretty Spielberg wrote this just to get studio's to stop asking for sequels.
The few min Comcast Xfinity Holiday commercial with Elliot's family and E.T. was the best sequel and short.
In this 'content' age the studio would call his bluff and green light it.
@@tracywalker6813 Keep in mind that Beetlejuice 2: Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian got greenlit and has been in developmental hell for decades.
@@2019AyyDee As a Beetlejuice fan this makes my soul break out in festering stupid boils. Xo
@@tracywalker6813 Tim Burton actually wrote the script because the studios were on his back to make sequels so he wrote the worst sequel he could think of.
if there was a tagline for this, i'd say it is - "ET2 - They wanted a franchise. He gave them a nightmare."
Well, he did call it Nocturnal Fears
I'd say that tagline is perfect.
As others have mentioned, the awfulness does seem almost intentional on Spielberg’s part. The aliens are evil so they have red eyes. The kids endure torture by remembering their LARPing. E.T. comes in like an action hero. The aliens evidently resume their war and it’s supposed to be a happy ending. It’s all just so BAD that I honestly think it’s more likely that Spielberg really wrote this to kill off sequel plans.
Huh, kinda like how Gremlins 2 killed off the possibilities of any further sequels. Except Gremlins 2 is a great sequel while being a deconstruction of the first film.
The official story is that Spielberg was under pressure from Universal execs for a sequel to ET. He was resistant to this but agreed to write a story treatment. However he deliberately made the story dark and unpleasant, the complete opposite to the original film as he wanted to put the execs off the idea of a sequel. And sure enough it worked and the execs agreed not to do a sequel
Imagine if they were more money-hungry they might've gone for it.
That is f#cking brilliant
Nowadays they probably would’ve went through with it just to cash in on the first movie’s good name
Spielberg was the ultimate studio executive troll. Between this sabotage punk job and the reverse psychology ploy to secure Back To The Future retain its title and not be renamed Space-Man From Pluto, as was highly suggested and pushed for. It seemed like Spielberg's entire side-hustle f*cking with The Suits to stay out of The Creatives lane. These hilarious snow jobs of Spielberg are obvious to anyone not in the eye of the Hollywood sh*t-storm who can't see the forest for the trees with their oversized bloated heads up their own out of their depth asses. They at least weren't so braindead so as to know well enough that the commercial prospects for this ridiculously franchise killing proposal was a career ender and to just leave it alone and walk away. This is the crucial critical problem solving skill-set and baseline common sense gene I feel massively and completely missing from current Disney brain trust Empire and their sith lord Kathleen Kennedy whom this subtle, but obvious colossal company wide financial misstep of a creative direction for a red hot IP would be painfully apparent, but absolutely still wildly lost on KK and her misfit band of Mary Sues. She would not only give it the greenlight, she'd let Spielberg film three quarters of the movie before releasing him from the director's chair, hiring a film school student trust fund baby or Ron Howard to come in and reshoot the movie, but with even more misguided soul-crushing narrative detours, containing even way less commercial prospects and then really doubling down on the utter lack of anything close to a likable, reasonable or ethical character, perhaps hint of something maybe resembling a value system, code of conduct or trace of morality, and then making everything even that much more incoherent, indecipherable and unholy and wrong, ignore your shareholders concerns, attack the decades long built up fanbase, gaslight any and all loyal or potentially new customers, slander the names of any respected media outlet or highly reputable news source for any criticism of corporate content with it's concerning red flag cult-like agenda bias in its overt propaganda and all the subtle subliminal messaging of a blunt force trauma tire iron to the windpipe. But, I digress.
Spielberg rules.
The thing that made E.T. interesting is that we never got much insight into what the aliens are like. We knew E.T.’s crew were nonviolent researchers or explorers, but we didn’t get any longwinded exposition, or a look at their home planet. All this “E.T. lore” about evil rival clans and such is so unnecessary and actually detracts from what made the original special. I can only presume Spielberg did not take this script seriously because he didn’t want it made in the first place.
Honestly if he kept the eerieness of the first movie, he'd be beyond the 20th century for that matter
I already find E.T. to be low key terrifying. This sounds like pure nightmare fuel.
He was just waiting to probe elliot.
Given Spielberg's ties to NAMBLA I don't blame you.
si e.t. consiguiera una secuela (eliot) henry thomas y erika eleniak (cualquiera que sea el nombre de su personaje) ¿estarían casados en la secuela?
E.T. II. -NOCTURNAL FEARS, a movie concept so awful, you'd think it came from the Sy-Fy Channel!
Timbrock1000 I would’ve been interested to see the sequel get made
Seriously the Albino Asogians (E.T.’s) were interesting heck even their decade war was also interesting it didn’t have to be a movie but I could’ve been a live action or animated Tv series
@@scorpiusrexman1017 yeah it’s sound like they are the KKK of there planet
So bad things even Asylum Films wouldn't touch it.
@@scorpiusrexman1017 You could make a standalone film about kids who had rescued a sweet lovable alien a couple of years back and then meet sweet-lovable-alien's not-so-lovable cousins.
They did make an E.T. Christmas Xfinity commercial in 2019. 🎄
Apparently, Spielberg considers that commercial the cannon sequel to ET
@@HemmasStudios_ Could you do a video about the proposed prequel/sequel to Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
I mean, I'd be lying if I said it wasn't in the cards at some point. ;)
(Unsure of when, exactly but definitely at some point)
@@HemmasStudios_ And unlike E.T. 2 Who Framed Roger Rabbit 2 may still have actually a good chance getting made someday eventually.
E.T. species have a cameo in the Phantom Menace, this explains why E.T. looked at the child wearing a Yoda costume.
E.T. is a Star Wars movie. E.T. is a jedi. His people were even in the imperial senate and shown in the prequels.
So those aliens hunting him down were the sith. Mind blown!
Or just an albino sub-species who developed carnivory
ET uses the force but it doesn't make him a Jedi. The Jedi are just one order who use the light side most effectively.
@@camerongage1237 well considering the Jedi hunt down and try to exterminate or forcefully convert most force users except for a few extremely dangerous ones (like the witches of Dathomir), he was either a Jedi or barely gifted in the force at all.
The enemies hunting him could just be looking for force sensitive beings to recruit to their side or ELIMINATE. I can see this story and all the lore be flushed out and further developed in a good fan-fic.
To be fair, this probably would've went through half a dozen rewrites. It's only a plot synopsis, not a script. Sometimes very little of the original concept ends up in a finished script.
If this movie was made, it would've been along categorized with all the other gritty 80s kids movies that scared us growing up.
6:22 I like how Korel telepathically speaks to the kids, yet he can't use his telepathy to tell if they're lying or not.
I’m glad they scrapped the horror sequel. It would’ve undermined the family friendliness of the first movie.
To be fair, the original had it's fair share of scary moments and a creepy tone to it. But, this just feels wrong. Plus, Spielberg had said all he intended to say with the first E.T. This would have been unnecessary.
Maybe this was done to "scare" the execs off? Spielberg knew it would fail?
I wonder what movie it would have become if it was recycled into being it's entirely different film.
Family friendly horror is possible
Getting paid to troll studios will always be the Chadest of moves
I always thought that E.T. was a child who got lost on a rest stop but as it turns out, he was really a fugitive super soldier that can single-handedly take out an enemy force. Who knew??
Single-fingeredly
Touché
E.T. was like catching lightning in a bottle. It can never be duplicated.
If you have caught lightning in a bottle once, couldn't you do that again?
This would have been way different, they weren't trying to duplicate it clearly
I did like that Xfinity commercial they had a few years back with Henry Thomas reprising his role.
Granted that was just a one off special commercial.
I read this 'treatment' online a couple of years ago and was immediately convinced it was a fan-made fake because of a) bad typos that Spielberg and Melissa Mathison would've known better and b) details that contradicted (or at the least very bizarrely interpreted) lines of dialogue from the first film.
Sigh E.T was always a movie by heart but I never knew that in the back ground secretly there are hidden monster's... 😰😔
Why wouldn't there be? Many humans are monsters in human skin suits.....
Anyone who grew up in the 80’s or 90’s and hears any movie sequel name that has 2 at the end of it,will always hear “Electric Boogaloo” in their heads..It’s like a strange curse
I have the same curse, but I was born in the 2000s
Interestingly enough, despite the fact that this movie never got made, it was still the basis/setting for the E.T. ride at Universal Studios in Orlando.
"In the night sky there is an emotion churning about."
What a killer opening line.
I'm hooked already!
Crying: The Movie
It is really difficult to imagine how this sequel would have panned out. The final version of the sequel, had it been made, probably would've ended up different than the plot treatment. Meaning the problems and issues may have been ironed out in rewrites. Spielberg would've gotten push-back on things like the kids being tortured and E.T. only appearing toward the end.
You’re totally right. I just can’t imagine the studio reading this and even green lighting it in the first place. Like you said, there’d be a TON of re-writes inbound.
The sequel would have tarnished the image of the original. It definitely would have robbed the original of its virginity. I admire Spielberg for not going through with making a sequel. Kudos to him. And moreover, E.T. had the perfect ending. It's a bittersweet moment.
Screw this. If I want a sequel to E.T.,
I'll watch 2019's Xfinity Christmas commercial.
I still love the idea that in Spielberg's "War of The Worlds" E.T's species were the invading aliens as a twist that would only be revealed right at the very end. I think it'd be a pretty cool twist that the sweet,lovable alien was actually a scout for an invasion force sent to asses Earth's capabilities.
IF he ever said that, it was meant as a joke. Still the evil tree frogs from space from 2005 are no more the Martians of HG Wells than ET was.
We do have an official sequel though. And yes, its official and Spielberg approved. In the form of a 4 minute xfinity commercial. Henry Thomas reprises his role as Elliot and ET meets his family for christmas.
Yep. I love that mini-sequel. It's the perfect sequel to E.T. which sparks a lot of nostalgia.
Loved it. Such cute moments. ❤
I was always surprised they didnt make a sequel to this movie. Im SO glad they didnt! Thanks for sharing this video : )
Childhood me would have adored this movie. While you were reading it I was begging for et to show up and save the day. Then he did. Perfection.
They should have made this years later as a horror. The original was like a horror to me. I was terrified of it as a kid, especially the scene where ET is screaming in the bushes. Made my blood run cold. Everyone thought he was cute. I thought he was freaky. Oddly enough I now love horror and sci fi and have watched all sorts and I am not scared by any films, other than two films. I still can't watch ET and the only other film that gives me sleepless nights is Fire in the Sky. I enjoyed this video thanks dude.
Whew, that was awful. I would come close to accusing Spielberg of purposely writing something awful in order to sabotage a sequel and prevent it from happening. I mean, who on Earth would think this trash was even close to the quality of the first story? The whole idea of evil carnivorous E.T.s, warring factions, child torture...what the hell is this? Lol!
Star Wars, Alien, Enemy Mine, the Black Hole, War of the Worlds, Aliens....
@@BenDowdy None of those have Child torture..
An attempt to scare off Hollywood Execs?
It sounds litteraly exactly like "Gremlins," set in space. I can just see it now..."Eliot!! Did you accidentally feed ET after midnight again?"Eliot opens curtains in his room to reveal a nasty, Gremlin-ized evil version of ET, standing outside Eliot's window in the dark slowly attempting to light a cigarette off of his famous glowing finger while smiling evily in the dark. The whole family then together groans like out of a Scooby Doo comic relief moment, "Ohh man, not again!...Eliot!" Eliot smiles sheepishly, shrugging his shoulders while looking directly into the camera. Wahmp! Whamp! Whaaaaaah!
Spoiler, they all die in horrifically violent and gory detail, including a now deleted scene where Drew Barrymore's character is some how shoved into a microwaveby the evil ET, and she explodes just like in the first "Gremlins" movie. Of course because of that, this movie had to incorporate the new MPAA approved Spilberg invented PG-13 rating so that parents know the worst thing your kid will see is tons of violence and gore and maybe hear 1 f-bomb, but thank god, none of that dreaded nudity or even worse, sex or mentions of sex in any way or form. Those are not natural things your child should see, unlike enough blood and gore to equal the first 20 minutes of the D-Day opening of "Saving Private Ryan," that's totally cool though. (Let's be real, we all know that movie was rated R simply because Tom Sizemore was in it, it's pretty much court ordered in anything he's involved in not involve or be viewed by any minors whatsoever. So anyways, "ET: Numero Dos." ...yuuup...
I remember when I was in elementary school when this movie came out and there was a book about the second part of ET. It was not like the script that you read. It was called “the green planet” I think. It had Eliot going to ET’s planet.
No it didn't.
@@christiaanbothma I am 49 years old and here is a link proving what I said
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Literally several years after the fact. But I like the idea. You have to understand this is just a first pass treatment. The hardest part of doing anything, much less something creative, is just to DO IT. Put something on paper and work it out with all the other executives, writers, assistant directors, actors all of it. Hell, Ghostbusters was set as on the moon with all kinds of crazy spectacle scifi nonsense and was supposed to be more action horror.
This treatment sounds like it has all the key plot elements. It's not exactly horror, just the mention of D&D and having the kids rely on it during the interrogation part says to me Spielberg wanted to go more Goonies, like an adventure type. I see a lot of extremes here, which is what you want. A wild concept that just grabs your attention, then when you're actually working up a full script you adjust and change it.
It's sounds bizarre because it's pre-first draft. Imagine where this could have gone. We spend some time hanging out with everyone, the kids go to the forest. I see that whole scene being the crux of the second act. They hide, outwit and out maneuver the evil aliens in a mix of Frodo and the Hobbits running from the Ring Wraiths and the kids from the Goonies Home Alone-ing some crazy D&D/Fantasy based contraption traps. They eventually get captured and questioned mentally. This plays out less like torture and more like making the kids relive memories. You can still have them screaming out for E.T. so he can show up at the end but when they do maybe they crash into a mountain or blow up in space. A type of ending that is a little more effects and action oriented.
We come full circle by saying goodbye to him again, but maybe this time Elliott goes with E.T.? Anyway, from what I know of writing and what goes from the beginning stages to the end product what you usually end up doing is taking the high points you really believe in and keeping those moments and trimming off and changing a lot of the rest of the surrounding story.
As is, somebody has some problems sure. But as something to pick apart and make into an adventure movie? This sounds like it would have been a lot of fun.
Broken down like this, this sounds awesome.
Lol no
E.T. has a sort of sequel.. The Universal Studios Attraction. We travel on flying bikes to E.T's home world The Green Planet.
There is a book sequel called The Green Planet as well. It was interesting to say the least.
E.T. Home world was so trippy love that ride thou I wonder how long till it’s replaced first back to the future then jaws E.T. Is living on borrowed time
Thanks for digging this up. I had no idea this treatment existed. In late 1982 we were told by our local film office that Mr. Speilberg had come to our home town (Oroville, California) to look at the dam as a location for the sequel. The tallest earth fill in the US. Its 300 feet taller than Hoover Dam. Movies have been shot here before. Most noteably The Outlaw Jose Wales in 1976. Nothing came of their visit and I forgot about it. And after you presented this. I now know why. Oooof. This is probably a paid first treatment meant to tank the sequel.
Oh, wow. If they were scouting locations then maybe there’s a little more to the movie’s development than we know...
I remember reading a sequel book to the ET movie, it was also depressing. Took place over a number of years as Elliot got on with his life and ET tried to meet with Elliot again. I believe ET ended up dying while trying to make it back to Earth.
He didn't die but was still traveling to earth at the end. In a giant space turnip.
Whoa, where’d you find this?
It surely couldn’t have been official right ?
@@RYMAN1321 I assumed it was official. I believe I found it in the school libary one day. Name of the story is "E.T.: The Book of the Green Planet".
Reading some reviews, they all seem to say this is a funny and touching story. No one mentioning E.T. died. Maybe I'm not remembering the ending properly. What people say about the book's plot lines up with my memory of the story though. Oh, another reacer stated that ET didn't die, but he and Elliot never managed to reunite by the end of the story. The ship didn't blow up? Didn't something bad happen at the end?
This sequel would've prove that aliens are pure evil, unkind, and unsympathetic monsters, the exact opposite of the first film.
Maybe not as an ET sequel but I’d watch a movie about this. Sounds really intense.
This sounds like the first third of a movie, not the entire treatment.
"Hey, make a sequel!"
"No than..."
"Yup, make a sequel!"
"I really don't think..."
"Don't think, make a sequel!"
"Okeydokey ..."
Later.
"Here's a script ..."
"Oh! Oh, no ... No."
"No sequel, then?"
"Nope! No need. Nope, no thank you. Onwards and upwards, right? Yeah ..."
I remember reading about the original version of ET called Night Skies that was a completely different darker story before Harrison Fords wife rewrote it. I guess Spielberg wanted to bring some of his original ideas back for the sequel.
Sauce? I dont want to flood my feed with my childhood's trauma
I don't think it was ever supposed to. It sounds like it was specifically designed to be shot down by the studio, his way of making sure that there wouldn't be a sequal.
Funny thing is this is just a first draft, movies usually go through multiple drafts, so much more would be filled in and added to the script.
That said, this script is good enough for Netflix, they wouldnt even ask for another draft.
I actually love the treatment for E.T. II: Nocturnal Fears. I think it would have been a great movie.
ET stands for extraterrestrial therefor the fact that the film is named ET II does not automatically assume that the original alien, nicknamed "ET" by the kids, would be featured throughout the entire film. To be honest, done right, this would have been a lot better than doing what is done with so many sequels, that being a rehash of the first film made just for the money.
Guys and gals the only reason you saw some ETs in the Phantom Menace was because George Lucas and Stephen Spielberg are best friends and they were just in a friendly rivalry in their respective movies. ET is not part of the Star Wars Galaxy. It was a joke on Lucas behalf after you saw Spielberg put Yoda in ET assuming that ET came from the Star Wars Galaxy. It was really a nod to that.
The Asogians are part of the SW galaxy.
“Yes. As a gag/easter egg/cross-merchandizing/friendly jest/whatever, Spielberg and Lucas have placed enough canon information in their universes to imply that E.T. really is an alien from a species in a Star Wars Galaxy”
that actually would of been a cool film.
Call me crazy but I pretty much automatically ignore the opinion of anyone who says “would of” instead of “would have”
@@pyenapple No you woulden :-)
@@pyenapple ok grammar police, that's got nothing to do with his opinion, not everyone is great with grammar, that doesn't mean their opinions can't be valid...
@@codyt821 i didn’t say it wasn’t valid, just that i find it saves me time if I generalize about these things, saves me from watching dumb stuff
@@pyenapple If that's how you operate, fine. But you don't have to draw attention to someone else's honest mistake.
Sounds like E.T would have about as much screentime as he did in The Phantom Menace.
This sounds like an amazing sequel to me.
I would have loved to see it! Gen X kids definitely LOVED this stuff!
Every time I go on a rant about movies that were or could've been ruined by a sequel I use E.T. as an example. But I would've never guessed it could've been so bad.
This movie is the reason to this day that aliens terrify me to my core.
This content is excellent. I can’t believe you don’t have more subscribers. You are about to blow up.
Thank you so much, that’s a very kind thing to say!
The original ET does have parts that Spielberg plays like a horror film, specifically the opening where ET is being chased is shot like one, so it doesn’t seem that crazy that he might lean into that even more a second time around.
It is interesting though, because this combined with how Poltergeist started as a horror sequel to Close Encounters of the Third Kind makes it sound like this was an idea Spielberg had kicking around in his head that he couldn’t shake. How ET is called back in at the end to save the the kids also sounds like how Zelda Rubinstein character is brought in, in Poltergeist. The date of that treatment is a the month after Poltergeist comes out too, so he may have been thinking of returning to the sci-fi version that went unmade but with ET this time around.
It does however also remind me of a story with Spielberg I heard where he got a studio note on a movie that was so dumb (I can remember from who, may have been Jon Peters) that he sent a note back saying he showed it to the crew and everyone loved the joke the producer had sent them. So maybe he just did it so the studio would leave him alone? But this horror sequel is something he almost just did with Close Encounters, and the version of it that ended up being made dropped all the sci-fi stuff he wanted.
Im not sure if Im telling you something you already know but he made ET and Poltergeist at the same time, but due to either inane Labor Laws, or some agreement, he couldnt direct both at the same. So that is why Toby Hooper was brought in to direct Poltergeist, while Spielberg produced it.
@@dezznutz3743 Yeah, he couldn’t do Poltergeist at the time because he was filming ET. Spielberg had an idea to do a horror sequel to Close Encounters of the Third Kind that seems like it became a version of ET that was never made, and the original sci-fi version of Poltergeist. Hooper was brought in to do the horror Close Encounters sequel but wasn’t interesting in doing a sci-fi movie...but he did have a hunted house movie he wanted to do some they worked on that, and it sounds like Spielberg came up with the end which also happens to sound a lot like the end of this but with aliens. To me this is interesting because it seems like it was Spielberg’s third try at the idea, and it’s happening so closely to the release of ET and Poltergeist. It’s also the second time he’s trying to follow up one of his previous movies, but with a movie that shifts the genre. Although I could easily see something that’s the tone of Poltergeist as a sequel to ET.
Thinking about it now, Hooper would end up doing something that sounds kind of similar to this too a few years later when he remade Invaders from Mars.
I remember a lot of people at the time said that Gremlins started as E.T. 2. That's pretty odd because the only references to Mogwai being aliens were in the novelizations, though that's changing with Secrets of the Mogwai.
I have no idea why but I’m terrified of E.T
I always envisioned a sequel taking place in semi modern time where Elliot has been in a coma for some time and the story centers around gertie, who is her brother's caretaker now, maybe a reporter, maybe a radio astronomer.Michael's like a whacked out hippie conspiracy theorist, who just happens to be right most of the time. Elliot's mom and keys are an item, and the agency he worked for has become far more insidious since he left, strike teams, drones, post 9/11 Patriot act type stuff. not just making contact but exploiting first contacts. Seeing visitors for what resources humankind could take from them versus fostering good relations.A darker Arc for fans who grew up with ET, but in the end everyone coming together to reunite Elliot and ET. Maybe the only way Elliott can live is to go with ET this time.
Stranger Things is almost like a sequel to ET, except no extraterrestial this time, just weird (but nice) girl.
That's exactly what I said finally someone with a brain
They could still do a decent one - yes, all these years later - and incorporate some of these elements, but focus 40 years later on a terminal illness that Elliott's kid has (or Elliott himself). The rest is not for free here ;)
Spielberg did make this movie in a sense - his mini series "Taken".
The sequel I always understood that was to happen since the mid 1980's it seems was where it would show E.T. going back to his homeward and what all would happen there. That was the clear point was that it would be beautiful and revealing...
In a way, I kinda wish this had got made as it's interesting. It would have been really dark for a family movie though so probably best it wasn't made.
That sounds almost as bad as having Luke Skywalker almost kill his nephew in his sleep.
Wow. There is no way he ever intended to make this movie.
I always really enjoyed the sequel novel "E.T.: The Book of the Green Planet". Of course, it wouldn't have made a very good movie.
Isn't the Universal ride in Orlando kind of a sequel as well. With Elliot/the rider making the voyage to ET's planet.
Yes but Steven wanted the ride, not the sequel
Eh E.T. Doesn’t really need a sequel. Would be cool but doesn’t need one
Agreed. there's just nothing left to say in this universe.
Well, we already have a sequel. Filthy Frank made it.
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You guys are crazy if you don't think this sounds incredibly interesting! Of course, it definitely needs a better ending. ET or "Zrek" needs to waste the bad guys, not send them away. He needs to go full Super Saiyan and use his heart-light to melt their faces off like at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Actually they need to go to war and light the whole town on fire, it needs to be like at the end of First Blood. The kids being tortured might seem ruthless, but it gives the story some real stakes, PLUS it's more in tune with our own (alleged) interaction with aliens. There are lots of horrifying and supposedly real stories about alien abductees being tortured, and this dark story resonates with that. Also, the original ET was way more dark than you guys realize. One of the most terrifying things I ever saw as a kid was ET lying on the bathroom floor looking like a chalky white corpse, it was straight out of a nightmare! You guys think the whole movie was about them dressing up for Halloween and having fun with ET, heck no, there were guys with guns trying to kill him! Damn, this has to get made. Just give me the resources and I'll make the sequel!
You can use AI
There was a sequel in book form, E.T.: The Book of the Green Planet
Sounds like Spielberg was just hedging his bets in case he had the opportunity to make a second film. That treatment reads to me like something he cobbled together as a gesture of possible intent , not a final idea at all , given the metamorphosis movie scripts regularly go through.
I'd like to see this as it's own thing and not just a sequel to E.T. I think there's potential for it to be it's own effective horror movie. Maybe it could be one of those take a classic 80s movie and turn it into a horror movie concepts. Idk
The true horror "sequel" to ET was Xtro, which was not a bad movie in the 80s. The first appearance of the titular character made the rounds in "nightmare fuel" videos on UA-cam.
I love E.T I wish they would make another
I feel like this was Spielberg’s way of trolling Universal.... The whole idea sounds so bad that it had to be intentional
Spielberg has a knack for those tactics I remember the outlandish jurassic park reboot was supposed to be Half human half dinosaur beasts.
Your name is Cleeborb! - Random Alien in Robot Chicken.
So they wanted to call it Nocturnal Fears and not Night Terrors, which is a title that means the same thing and is actually a recognizable idiom? Sounds like the mistakes began right from the beginning.
Nocturnal Fears sounds more ominous and mysterious imo.
"Nocturnal Emissions" is a much better title. It could be about alien broadcasts that cause weird dreams, about the looming threat of a space invasion. And also it's a coming-of-age story about Elliott, dealing with the messy outcome of his dreams when he wakes up. Now that's what I call a sticky situation!
@@atomicdancer lol
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Other context aside the biggest hint this wasn't a genuine attempt at writing a treatment is that it basically boils down to "Protagonist misses alien, gets tortured, tortured, tortured, and wrap it all up in a line or two." There's just no story there even extrapolating what details we can.
Extra Testicle 2: Nocturnal Emissions
Can't imagine why the studio didn't pick that one up.
I was low key afraid of E.T. so i think this would have scared me, at least.
me too bro
I have recurring dreams of the redwood forest in the beginning. Everything in that movie just creeps me out. As a horror junkie, I'm always slightly annoyed with myself that E. fucking T. is one of the few movies I have a hard time watching.
@@MattGarZero as a kid I had a toy of et. It was in my toy chest underneath another toy. I moved the toy on top away and the et toy jump scared me. I hated et ever since.
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My older cousin had a stuffed E.T. in her room. I actively avoided her room for years.
@@MattGarZero I would too lol
This is pretty horrible. It doesn't seem like they were even trying, they just pooped this out to get the executives off their backs
00:07 I don't think we can say that anymore after Ready player one
What about the sequel material that influenced the ET Ride at Universal? It looked like some crazy rave.
The only sequel that could work... and honestly is the only sequel we all want to see.. is *ET versus Mac* with a cameo of *Nukie* in a post-credits scene.
There was a sequel in the form of a commercial where a nearly 50 year old Elliot gets a chance to invite ET into his house to meet his family.
When the evil aliens interrogated elliot by slapping him with their long fingered hands creaming at him where is he; elliot responded right there showing his head! And with his screams of despair E.T. listened and by wearing his hyper space suit he became super E.T. and came to the rescue!
Seriously i cannot fathom that this was a script worked on by spielberg him self for a freaking sequel,its a good thing they scrapped that one out for our lives! Blood thirsty alien species and an E.T. showing up in the last scene??? Ok if you want to make a horror movie spoof from someone else i can go with that,but an E.T. sequel should be more heart warming and family friendly i believe having the beloved character returns for more trouble to earth or something,with the scientists chasing them again etc.Not a wild alien bloodthirsty enemy race that looking for the peaceful alien! Yes you could go with that concept but without the wild aliens stuff,having the "vilainous" race looking for the alien for captivity and stuff for instance because in the previous movie they landed accidentally on earth,and the other race looking humans for interrogation.And having the earth with some kind of danger & threat from again the "vilainous" race because of this whole mess.And E.T. & friends helping resolving that issue in the end returning all to their homes! A simple story line like that would be a much better sequel and i am not a freaking writer or something!
Not defending this idea for a sequel, but it seems that Spielberg might have been trying to flip the formula. What I mean is that instead of ET being hunted, captured and clinically examined, it is now Elliot being captured and tortured. I also like how the evil aliens detected Elliot's distress call and came to Earth. But yeah, not a good sequel.
I thought it was known he wrote it crappy on purpose,This was still super interesting good video
There was a 1983 ET 2 Story treatment with no subtitle by Steven Speilberg which had a simpler story of E.T. being sick on his home planet and his people coming back to earth to bring Elliot to E.T.'s planet detecting that they still have a mental bonding. After Elliot helps E.T. get better they try to put Elliot in their planet's 'zoo' which also showcases the plantlife they gathered from Earth. Elliot slowly shows he can't survive in E.T.'s planet's atmosphere either and E.T. must save him this time from an autopsy. This time their mental bond is more solidly broken. E.T. returns Elliot home. Now I got to grab the story treatment to actually find the exact details of some things but if I am correct, in this version Zrech is revealed to be ET's name on his planet. On ET's planet supposedly plant life hums in various musical tones in the zoo scenes. ET is supposedly banned from space flight for learning a verbal language instead of telepathic communication of his planet. Supposedly, ET has a family, but his family only has one scene they are mentioned in. This story treatment was a copy attached to E.T. storyboards and a E.T. synopsis scxript for the first film. Mixed in to these story boards there are a few Raiders of the Lost Ark storyboards as well. Since script like copies of it were circulating with like thick blue covers in a 1984 sci fi convention, which is where I got mine, I am supposing it's sourced from a legit leak. I also have Star Wars early scripts from that year and Star Trek 3 story treatment which reads more like a tv show episode than a movie.
Also keep in mind Steven also said years later that his first aborted sequel idea was given to Chris Columbus who had a similar story idea and then Gremlins was created.
Fun Fact!! E.T. gave me ATLEAST 3 horrible experiences in the Pamida grocery store, with my parents, due to me more or less, throwin a decent sized hissy fit, due to the denial of the candy that i had never had, yet newly discovered, Reeses Pieces ! LOL
wait a damn minute...what about that weird ET ride at universal studios?
I vaguely remember as a kid talk about a secret E.T. sequel called E.T. Nasty that was a horror movie. Can't find anything about it on the internet though.
The most interesting aspect of the treatment was th confirmation that Keys had met his own E.T. (or that specific E.T.) when he was younger. In the film, I always read it as him telling Elliot what he wanted to hear to capture E.T. for the government.
Lmao, Spielberg was trolling the studio before trolling was even a word! Check Mate Steven👍
This story is good for a 15 minute short, nice to have an idea of what happens next, but no sequels with that story, please!
Very similar to his idea for the Close Encounters sequel which actually ended evolving into E.T.
Great story and certainly an interesting piece of Spielberg history but definitely not something that we really needed. The original movie is fantastic and fine just the way it is and I truly believe that Spielberg made the right decision to avoid any sequels or spinoffs from ET.
i recently had the tought : what if ET and "2001 : a space odissey" where in the same universe ?
like elliot afther meeting ET becomes an astronaut in order to meet his alien friend again , and then he hears abt the obelisc and pushes to go to the saturn mission specifically because he know that he might find somenthing abt his friend , and then the whole plot of 2001 space odissey appens ...
i tought of it as a bad idea : they are such tonally different movies that putting them togheter would just be confusing ,
kinda like how "the force awakens" and "the last jedi" (star wars) where completely different movies tonally but got lumed togheter ...
needless to say i'd like to make the Spilberg/Kubrick shared universe , just for fun
Gremlins 2 didn't degrade Gremlins. Ghostbusters II didn't degrade Ghostbusters. If he felt so strongly, he wouldn't have allowed Indiana Jones 4.
This sounds like the inspiration for Stranger Things. But nowhere near as good, in its current form.