Hollywood tears your children out of their hands. In any case, many director will be: inside and author: think inside the dream factory that have no rights to their own works. Regardless of whether it is tough cuts, complete changes or unwanted sequels: Studios can use the works of still unknown artists: often do what they want inside. Even if it is a sci-fi masterpiece by Steven Spielberg. But The maker could not be stopped.
Steven Spielberg fought sci-fi continuation with all might
Spielbergs Meisterwerk et – the extraterrestrial developed after a cinema release in 1982 into the most successful film ever. From a studio vision, it probably went on to produce a sequel. And at first the director was not averse: provisionally, he developed an astonishingly dark sequel idea, after which evil aliens kidnap the children from part 1 and question about the whereabouts of ET.
As Spielberg now said, according to the Hollywood Reporter, there was also the possibility to film a book for the second part. The novel written by William Kotzwinkle was in German the title ET – The Book of the Green Planet And also continues the history of the movie, but on the home planet of the alien.
Spielberg finally realized that he did not want to make a sequel. “I just didn’t want to do a sequel. I flirted with the idea for a while, but [die Idee von E.T.s Heimatplaneten] Was better than a book as a film.“
Steven Spielberg came up with the studio when it was continued
However, the studios did not seem to stop his unwillingness against their own ideas, so Spielberg finally had to fight against ET 2:
That was a really hard -won victory Because I didn’t have all the rights. I did not have the opportunity we in the “The Freeze” industry [dt. etwa: Der Frost] Name with which you can freeze a whole franchise. The studio must then not produce sequels, remakes or other re -evaluations. I only got this right through the success of ET
He does not explain how exactly Spielberg won the victory. Every fan has to decide for themselves whether a sequel is desirable to one of the largest sci-fi master works ever. On the one hand, you prefer to let some things rest. On the other hand, there are celebrated sequels such as Spielberg’s Indiana Jones and the last crusade.