Steven Spielberg admits he regrets the changes he made to ET

Steven Spielberg admits he regrets the changes he made to ET

Steven Spielberg admits he regrets the changes he made to ET Image Credit: Denis Makarenko/Shutterstock.com

ET director Spielberg has publicly admitted he regrets changes he made to his classic film in the 20-year anniversary edition.

Legendary film director Steven Spielberg has spoken about the changes he made in a 20-year anniversary edition of ET and how he now regrets the changes.

Speaking at Time’s 100 Summit in New York City, Spielberg expressed regret over taking out guns from a later release of his 1982 sci-fi blockbuster ET: The Extra-Terrestrial. In the 20th anniversary edition, agents had their firearms replaced with walkie-talkies.

“That was a mistake,” he said on stage. “I never should have done that. ET 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.”

He added: “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.”

The director was also asked about the re-editing of Roald Dahl’s work which has included changing the words “fat” to “enormous” and “ugly and beastly” to just “beastly”.

The director commented: “For me, it is sacrosanct. It’s our history, it’s our cultural heritage. I do not believe in censorship in that way.”

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