Exclusive: ET star Henry Thomas reflects on beating John Carpenter's TheThing at the box office when they first came out. 'Universal released E.T. and John Carpenter's The Thing at the same time, I think to kind of hedge their bets.'
Forty years after the two went head-to-head at cinemas, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial star Henry Thomas recalls beating John Carpenter's The Thing at the box office. Helmed by Steven Spielberg on a script from Melissa Mathison, the 1982 family sci-fi film revolved around a young boy named Elliott as he discovers and befriends the titular alien being and tries to find a way to get him home. Led by Henry Thomas, E.T.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY On the flip side, John Carpenter's The Thing was an adaptation of John W. Campbell Jr.'s sci-fi horror novella about a group of American researchers in Antarctica who come across the titular shapeshifting alien being and paranoia ensues as they struggle to determine who is human and who is a Thing.
I think the studio wasn't quite sure how the audience would react to a benevolent alien, because we'd only seen malevolent aliens, those were the successful aliens, were the bad ones. So, Universal released E.T. and John Carpenter's The Thing at the same time, I think to kind of hedge their bets.
Why E.T. Surpassed All Of Its Expectations At Release Despite being considered a classic today, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial memorably had a difficult time getting off the ground in development, with Spielberg initially conceiving it as a spiritual success to Close Encounters of the Third Kind in order to keep Columbia Pictures from producing a sequel without him.
As noted by Thomas, even Universal were doubtful of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial's box office chances, with the studio ultimately being proven wrong when Spielberg's film brought in nearly $795 million and was nominated for nine Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director.
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