E.T. Comes Back to Earth to Meet Grown-Up Elliott in Holiday

More than 35 years after the discharge of Steven Spielberg’s “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial,” the lovable alien is returning to the display in a particular business that begins airing this Thanksgiving.

In the spot, E.T. travels to Earth to reunite with a grown-up Elliott and his new household. Henry Thomas, the actor who initially performed Elliott within the 1982 movie, is now a married 40-something father of two.

“You came back. My son, my family,” Thomas says to E.T. as he introduces his pal to his household and welcomes him into their residence. “A lot has changed since you were here.”

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The cute business is an advert for Xfinity and Sky alongside Comcast/NBCUniversal, and it reveals E.T. now tinkering with an Xfinity powered pill, sporting a VR headset and the entire household sitting down to look at a film on their sensible TV.

It’s very a lot executed within the spirit of Spielberg’s unique movie, with E.T. consuming a cupcake topped with Reese’s Pieces after which flying Elliott’s youngsters on bicycles over the silhouette of the moon. Apparently Spielberg himself even signed off on the advert, which impressed Thomas to get entangled.

“The audience is going to get everything they want out of a sequel without the messy bits that could destroy the beauty of the original and the special place it has in people’s minds and hearts. It’s really a win-win,” the actor stated in a press release. “Looking at the storyboards, I could see exactly why Steven was really behind it, because the integrity of the story isn’t lost in this retelling.”

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“More than anything, the whole story is about family,” the business’s director Lance Acord stated in a press release. Acord is finest often called the cinematographer on movies comparable to “Lost in Translation,” “Marie Antoinette” and “Where the Wild Things Are.”

“Our goal is to show how Xfinity and Sky technology connects family, friends and loved ones, which is so important during the holidays. The classic friendship between E.T. and Elliott resonates around the world, and their story became a very meaningful way to bring our company’s consumer technology to life,” Peter Intermaggio, senior vice chairman for advertising and marketing communications of Comcast Cable, stated.

“People don’t care about technology inherently. They care about the way it connects them to other people. This story is an emotional reunion between two characters we know and love. It’s a perfect story for the holidays at a time when our emotions are very close to the surface,” added Jeff Goodby, co-chairman of Goodby, Silverstein & Partners (GS&P).

Watch the complete, four-minute brief movie persevering with the story of “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial,” above.