From the man who brought us Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Raiders of the Lost Ark comes E.T. The Extra Terrestrial. This is not your ordinary Alien movie. This is a movie for the whole family. E.T. is stranded on earth when his ship flees from oncoming humans. He happens upon Elliott, a 9 year old boy from a single mother home. Kept a secret from everyone except his brother and sister, Elliott and E.T. become fast friends despite their differences and inability to properly communicate. Over the course of the next few days E.T. displays some amazing abilities, he can levitate objects, heal plants and people. He even develops a psychic bond with Elliott, it starts small, but after a day at school when E.T. is left to explore the house and gets into Mom’s stash of beer it becomes a bit more serious. At school Elliot begins to act drunk, back at home E.T. is watching TV and sees a scene of a man and woman kissing, Elliott grabs the first girl he sees and kisses her. Learning some basic English skills from TV E.T. is able to communicate that he needs to call home. E.T. is getting sick and Elliot along with him. He builds a communicator out of parts around the house, the kids help sneak him into the woods to get a message off, with their health declining both E.T. and Elliott fall deathly ill. Scientists have finally caught up with E.T. and invade Elliott’s home. They quarantine the house and try to help but are unable to save E.T., the bond is broken, and Elliott’s health returns. After witnessing a dead flower spring to life Elliott realizes E.T. is not really dead. The kids manage to help free E.T. from the scientists and get him to the forest where he meets his ship who got his message.
Discussion Questions:
1. After many complete rewrites this is the best pitch I was able to come up with. Basically just a rehash of the plot, I don't think this would be a very successful pitch. If you were the one who had to make a decision based off of a pitch, what would you want to hear?
2. With today's Movie Market do you think it would be more difficult to sell this movie? why?
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i would think it wouldn't be very hard to sell this movie. the movie would look completely different, however the actual story behind it is why we remember and loved this movie
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