Spielberg Regrets Editing These Out Of E.T. Anniversary Release
Steven Spielberg is sharing one of his regrets. The director participated in a master class at the Time 100 Summit and said he regrets editing guns out of “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.”
Deadline says the film’s 1982 theatrical cut includes a scene of officers chasing young kids with firearms. Spielberg cut the guns out for the 20th-anniversary release of the film and replaced the firearms with walkie-talkies.
He explained, “That was a mistake. I never should have done that. ‘E.T.’ is a product of its era. No film should be revised based on the lenses we now are, either voluntarily, or being forced to peer through. I should have never messed with the archives of my own work, and I don’t recommend anyone do that. All our movies are a kind of a signpost of where we were when we made them, what the world was like and what the world was receiving when we got those stories out there.”
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