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Close Encounters of the Third Kind: The Special Edition was released on August 3, 1980, [64] making a further $15.7 million, accumulating a final $303.7 million box office gross. [ 18 ] [ 53 ] Roger Ebert "thought the original film was an astonishing achievement, capturing the feeling of awe and wonder we have when considering the likelihood of life beyond the Earth. ...
- Sean Hutchinson
- IT WAS INITIALLY A VERY DIFFERENT FILM. Spielberg’s initial story outline involved UFOs and shady government dealings following the Watergate scandal, which became a script entitled “Watch the Skies.”
- IT’S NAMED AFTER LEGITIMATE UFO RESEARCH. Spielberg partly based his idea on the research of Dr. J. Allen Hynek, a civilian scientific advisor to Project Blue Book who eventually admitted that 11 percent of the study’s findings about unidentified flying objects could not be explained using science.
- THERE’S A CAMEO FROM THE GODFATHER OF UFO RESEARCH. Hynek, who also served as a technical advisor on the movie, makes an uncredited cameo in the final scene of the movie.
- NOBODY WANTED THE STARRING ROLE. The director first offered the part of Roy Neary to actor Steve McQueen, who turned it down because he said he couldn’t cry on cue, something he saw as essential to the character.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon. Roy Neary, an Indiana electric lineman, finds his quiet and ordinary daily life turned upside down after a close encounter with a UFO, spurring him to an obsessed cross-country quest for answers as a momentous event approaches.
- (220K)
- Drama, Sci-Fi
- Steven Spielberg
- 1977-12-14
Apr 1, 2021 · Close Encounters of the Third Kind opened for the 1977 holiday season to enormous financial success and universal acclaim. But it still wasn't finished, at least not the way Spielberg wanted it to ...
Nov 15, 2017 · W hen Close Encounters of the Third Kind premiered in New York City on Nov. 15, 1977 — 40 years ago this Wednesday — filmmaker Steven Spielberg, though not yet 30, already had a reputation to ...
Summaries. Roy Neary, an Indiana electric lineman, finds his quiet and ordinary daily life turned upside down after a close encounter with a UFO, spurring him to an obsessed cross-country quest for answers as a momentous event approaches. Two parallel stories are told. In the first, a group of research scientists from a variety of backgrounds ...
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Overview. After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen. Steven Spielberg. Director, Writer. John Hill.
