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E.T. phone home? With $3 million, he might just buy a house on Earth and stick around.
Being that the model is the No. 1 “hero” used with the actors, the aluminum alloy skeletal E.T. is estimated to fetch as much as $3 million, according to the auction house.
“Pre-dating modern CGI technology and effects, this one-of-a-kind cinematographic relic (constructed in 1981) features 85 points of movement and is regarded as an engineering masterpiece,” the lot description reads.
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The June 1982 film, starringHenry ThomasandDrew Barrymoreabout an alien who befriends a boy while stuck on Earth, received critical acclaim and was the top box office movie of that year.
During a recent union with her co-stars Thomas, Robert MacNaughton andDee WallaceonThe Drew Barrymore Show, the talk show host revealed thatshe thought her alien costar in E.T.(the model up for sale) was real when she starred in the Universal hit at 7 years old.
“I really loved him in such a profound way,” she said of the model. “I would go and take lunch to him.”
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Wallace shared that she noticed early on in production the young Barrymore talking E.T. even when the cameras were not rolling, and she mentioned how cute it was to director Spielberg. “And so Steven, from that time on, appointed two guys to keep E.T. alive so whenever you came over to talk to him, he could react to you,” the actress lovingly recounted.
The “Icons and Idols: Hollywood” auction takes place Dec. 17-18 in Beverly Hills and online atjulienslive.com.
source: people.com
