Steven Spielberg regrets editing guns out of 2002 re-release of ‘E.T.’

Acclaimed movie director Steven Spielberg on Tuesday mentioned he laments modifying weapons out of a scene from “E.T. the Extraterrestrial” and changing them with walkie-talkies within the twentieth anniversary launch of the film.

“That was a mistake,” Mr. Spielberg mentioned on the Time 100 Summit. “I by no means ought to have carried out that as a result of ‘E.T.’ is a product of its period. No movie needs to be revised based mostly on the lenses we now are both voluntarily or being compelled to look via.”

The 1982 unique movie’s climax encompasses a scene the place federal brokers with weapons chase youngsters, however the director opted to present the feds handheld radios for the 2002 model of the film.

Mr. Spielberg acknowledged the error in 2011 and corrected it for the thirtieth anniversary launch of the film in 2012, in keeping with The Guardian.       

The director additionally spoke up in protection of preserving Roald Dahl’s unique works as publishing firms attempt to revise his texts round fashionable sensibilities.  

“No one ought to ever try to take the chocolate out of Willy Wonka! Ever!” Spielberg joked. He added on a extra critical observe: “For me, it’s sacrosanct. It’s our historical past, it’s our cultural heritage. I don’t consider in censorship in that means.”