Steven Spielberg Regrets Editing Guns Out Of ET's 20th Anniversary Release
General News
Thursday 27th, April 2023
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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."
