
"Drew has spoken to Steven about it", says SouthFlorida.com. "Although he thought she was joking at first, he's actually giving it serious thought. Drew thinks the world needs another feel-good movie like 'ET' right now and she's prepared to work with Steven to make it happen".
After the first film swept the western world, Spielberg apparently wrote a treatment for a sequel. Called E.T. 2: Nocturnal Fears, it had the titular, loveable alien coming back to Earth to save the planet from a race of evil aliens. Spielberg subsequently said he'd never do a sequel, but the description I just read of this theoretical Drew-motivated project sounds pretty close to Fears - although hopefully they'd ditch the porntastic subtitle. Nobody's been able to get Barrymore or Spielberg on the phone to confirm or deny any of this, but Moviehole talked to a couple of, um, less busy members of the original cast and for what it's worth, Dee Wallace-Stone is totally against it.
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