There almost could have been an E.T. sequel, but luckily its director Steven Spielberg fought hard to make sure that didn’t happen.
“That was a real hard-fought victory because I didn’t have any rights,” Spielberg said in reference to preventing an E.T. sequel while speaking as part of the TCM Classic Film Festival: New York Pop-Up x 92NY event.
The director continued to explain that he “just did not want to make a sequel.
But it was better as a novel than I think it would have been as a film.”