42 years ago, Steven Spielberg wanted to make a sequel to one of his masterpieces, and luckily, he decided against it.

In July 1982, Steven Spielberg and Melissa Mathison, screenwriters of the first opus, wrote “The Cure” (a short film story) for the sequel to their huge success, ET, Extraterrestrial. The film ended with a heart-wrenching moment when the ET flew to their planet against the backdrop of a rainbow, leaving Elliot and his family stranded on Earth.

But you are not ready for their next idea: “ET II: Night terrors”, whose treatment available online and which we have translated and summarized below.

Dark sequels and albino ETs

The story takes place a few months after the first film. Elliot finished the school year and summer was in full swing. Except that the young boy feels very lonely after ET’s departure, despite his closeness with his friends Michael and Gertie. His father is officially separated from his mother (Dee Wallace), who now lives with Dr. Casey (Peter Coyote), whom he met in the first film. Extraterrestrial is still in everyone’s memory.

At the same time, the spaceship lands in a forest occupied by malevolent aliens, who are drawn to Earth by the many distress messages sent by ETs into space. These new arrivals are carnivores and are led by a certain Korel who sends his army into the forest to forage. They look like ETs, but albino. The two species have been fighting each other for years.

Elliot receives a signal on the communicator he used with ET and thinks the alien is back! He alerts his friends and sets off to follow this signal, which leads him to a scary place in the woods. There they run into Korel, who asks where Zrek is. “he came home”– they answer, but the leader does not believe them and takes them prisoner. These aliens have “Teeth as sharp as flat” And children are in danger of losing their lives.

Torture?!

They are intensively interrogated and resisted (“As Their War Experience Taught”The script tells us!) But Gertie is having more trouble and calls Mary and ET for help. Keys and Mary return home late from a date to find the house empty after 11pm. Elliot is tortured by aliens who “Show no mercy when he answers their truth”as a result of which “severe pain” For Elliot asking ET for help “and get lost”.

At home, Mary and Casey find a communicator that says, “Ey will help Elliot soon.” The geranium in Elliot’s room, which has been in disrepair since he left, comes to life. Parents go to the forest.

ET descends into the forest, heartbeat and glowing finger extended, and stares at the other aliens. She walks over to Elliot and the two share a teary-eyed kiss. Other children use this to escape. ET reprograms the albino ship so that they return to their corner of the galaxy. Parents are coming. The reunion is painful, ET returns home and so do the other aliens. the end

Why didn’t this happen?

We still note the rather poor resolution with just the ET paralyzing everyone and ending everything like a deus ex machina and especially the harshness of certain scenes, between the disturbing forest and the interrogation scenes where it is indicated that the children are literally suffering!

A somewhat difficult sequel for young children who are bored with the kind ET and his disturbing story from the first film.

during the interview IGN In 2012, Spielberg returned to the reasons that led him to finally abandon the idea of ​​a sequel:

“I don’t think the second ET would have done anything but take away the virginity of the original movie. People only remember the last episode and the pilot fades away.”