He was recommended to Spielberg by Jack Fisk, who directed the film Raggedy Man, in which Thomas had made his film debut.

Yet the close encounter of Elliott and his near-homonym ET has left each with something of the other. Now there is an earthly reality in the little alien, and a celestial presence in the human child.

Previously: • 2001: A Space Odyssey spacesuit up for auction • Captain Kirk's original phaser and communicator on the auction block The post E.T. the extraterrestrial could land in your living ...

While instantly recognizable today, E.T.’s overall look was completely absent from Melissa Mathison’s screenplay. Creating ...

In Steven Spielberg's (78) cult film from 1982, he gets left behind on Earth by his own kind - now a model of E.T. has met a ...

An original E.T. model from the 1982 film is up for auction along with other items from classic horror, science fiction, and ...

The squat three-foot-tall E.T. model was designed by Rambaldi in 1981 and was used in the amusing bedroom closet scene, where ...

An original model of E.T., created for Steven Spielberg’s beloved film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, did not find a buyer after ...

An original model of E.T., created for Steven Spielberg’s beloved film “ET the Extra-Terrestrial,” did not find a buyer after being put up for auction, Sotheby’s auction house in New York ...

An original model of E.T., created for Steven Spielberg's beloved film "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial," did not find a buyer ...

An original model of E.T., created for Steven Spielberg's beloved film "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial," did not find a buyer after being put up for auction, Sotheby's auction house in New York said ...