![]() “You came back!” exclaims Elliot, although he doesn’t ask why because the answer would probably produce from ET an uncomfortable response such as: “I had no choice. There is a glimpse of Reese’s Pieces, the confectionery brand that made a killing when M&Ms turned down the chance to be featured in the movie.ĮTis also seen reviving a bunch of wilted flowers with one wave of his leathery hand. Elliot’s children scream when they find ET, and the alien screams along with them. The commercial amounts to a greatest hits parade of rehashed moments from the film. Elliot has a wife and two children, and is apparently unscarred by having ridden through the night sky on a flying bicycle at the age of 11 to escape the clutches of sinister government forces. In a 1996 short story, the critic David Thomson imagined that the boy, bereft by the departure of his intergalactic BFF, would go on to a life of aimless alienation full of drugs and weightlifting. Whether ET has aged is harder to say since he was as wrinkled as a wizened crone to begin with.Īt the start of the advertisement (no, we’re not calling it a sequel), the alien’s ship lands in the back garden of the house where Elliot now lives. Imbecilic PR statements aside, Thomas looks in pretty good shape for 48. ![]() ![]() “The audience is going to get everything they want out of a sequel without the messy bits that could destroy the beauty of the original and the special place it has in people’s minds and hearts,” Thomas says, displaying a touching eagerness to come out with any old guff so long as the cheque from Comcast has cleared.
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