The general public may not think of “E.T. the Extraterrestrial” as a divorce movie, per se … although Dee Wallace’s reading of the line “He hates Mexico” has alw…
explored how the split in his own family growing up informed his original story. And, beyond that, the director explained how making the film was the actual trigger that made him suddenly flip a switch from eschewing the prospect of ever being a father to putting parenthood on his vision board.
The filmmaker told the opening-night crowd at the TLC Chinese Theatre about the devastation he felt as a teen child of divorce. “I think when you go through something like that, when any child goes through an episode where your parents who you trust love and trust unconditionally come to you and your sisters and say, ‘We are separating, and we’re going to be living not just in two different houses but two different states,’ the world collapses. The sky falls on your head.
In the space of a half-hour preceding the showing of a new IMAX rendering of the 1982 film, Spielberg and Mankiewicz did not make attempts to tackle a complete career overview . But the conversation did at last briefly touch on everything from his 1969 “Night Gallery” pilot and “Duel” TV movie debut up through “E.T.”
He remembered, “It was my longest schedule” — even longer than “Jaws,” which would have been seemingly hard to beat, since on that “we shot 158 days, more than 100 days over schedule. But because we were shooting back to back, the studio just started writing checks, saying ‘Let’s see what happens.’ And they gave me an unlimited celling to make ‘1941.’ And it took me 178 days to shoot the picture, because I directed all the miniature work… That was the worst mistake you could have made.
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