Steven Spielberg has had a long association with aliens. One that continues to this day, with the upcoming Disclosure Day. In 1977, his Close Encounters of the Third Kind became a massive hit. And it transformed how the world perceived UFOs and alien contact. After its success, Spielberg planned to continue this theme with a darker alien tale, a horror film titled Night Skies. But eventually, the terrifying tale evolved into the cuddly classic E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial. Now, author Max Evry, author of A Masterpiece in Disarray: David Lynch’s Dune, takes readers on a new journey in his book Stranded on Earth: How Night Skies Became E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Evry’s new book even has a cool new trailer, which you can watch below:
Evry’s book is part film history and part investigative chronicle. It follows Spielberg’s fascination with UFOs and extraterrestrial storytelling from his teenage feature Firelight in the ’60s through 1977’s CE3K. The book covers the ambitious production of Night Skies, a sci-fi horror film that gradually evolved into E.T. Thanks to extensive research and new interviews with Spielberg collaborators, Evry uncovers the creative chaos, studio politics, abandoned concepts, and radical rewrites that transformed a scary alien movie into one of the most beloved films of all time. Below is the book’s official synopsis:
For years, Night Skies has been an asterisk in the shadow of that era’s most popular movie. The story of this unmade project is just as fascinating as how E.T. itself came to be. My book explores both, and so much more. As with my book on David Lynch’s Dune, the deeper I dug, the bigger — and wilder — the story became.
The book also covers how elements of Night Skies morphed into another Spielberg project, Poltergeist. A film written and released the same year as E.T, and even filmed in the same neighborhood. Gremlins also contained elements of Night Skies, with one benevolent unearthly creature among an assortment of malicious ones. For fans of one of the most exciting filmmakers in Hollywood history, in the era when he was working at the peak of his powers, this is one read they’ll not want to miss.
Stranded on Earth hits bookstores and online retailers in October from 1984 Publishing.
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