Steven Spielberg Says He Fought to Stop E.T. Sequel From Being Made
Spielberg looked back at 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial' alongside star Drew Barrymore as part of a TCM Classic Film Festival event in NYC.
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The Universal Studios E.T. ride is supposed to be based on the script for E.T. 2. Its basically an acid trip.
It's definitely weird all right. Starts off like you're riding Elliot's bike into the sky and ends up like some hallucinatory trip to ET's home world which is all neon and tie dye with bad animatronics, talking mushrooms and other weirdness.
Despite being trippy it's actually a very nice ride to go on because the lines tend to be short and it's blessedly well airconditioned with the line mimicking standing in a pine forest at night. I can't see the Florida ride lasting much longer because it must be over 30 years old by this point. I think it's only gone that long because that section of the park has been relatively static in terms of development.