Steven Spielberg Regrets Editing Guns Out Of ET's 20th Anniversary Release
General News
Thursday 27th, April 2023
Steven Spielberg has said that he regrets editing out guns for walkie talkies in ET's 20th anniversary release.
Speaking at a master class at the Time Summit in New York, he said,
Spielberg went on further to say,
Speaking at a master class at the Time Summit in New York, he said,
"That was a mistake,"
"I never should have done that."
Spielberg went on further to say,
"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."
"'E.T. was a film that I was sensitive to the fact that the federal agents were approaching kids with firearms exposed and I thought I would change the guns into walkie talkies."
"Years went by and I changed my own views."
"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."
"So I really regret having that out there."
