{"id":53005,"date":"2020-08-24T23:16:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T20:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-fruitful-failure-of-steven-spielbergs-close-encounters-of-the-third-kind-sequel\/"},"modified":"2020-08-24T23:16:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T20:16:00","slug":"the-fruitful-failure-of-steven-spielbergs-close-encounters-of-the-third-kind-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-fruitful-failure-of-steven-spielbergs-close-encounters-of-the-third-kind-sequel\/","title":{"rendered":"#The Fruitful Failure of Steven Spielberg\u2019s \u2018Close Encounters of the Third Kind\u2019 Sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a23d44048c3b\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a23d44048c3b\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-fruitful-failure-of-steven-spielbergs-close-encounters-of-the-third-kind-sequel\/#Steven_Spielbergs_%E2%80%98Night_Skies_was_never_made_but_what_audiences_wound_up_getting_instead_was_much_better\" >Steven Spielberg&#8217;s &#8216;Night Skies&#8217; was never made, but what audiences wound up getting instead was much better.<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-fruitful-failure-of-steven-spielbergs-close-encounters-of-the-third-kind-sequel\/#Who_made_this\" >Who made this?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-fruitful-failure-of-steven-spielbergs-close-encounters-of-the-third-kind-sequel\/#More_Videos_Like_This\" >More Videos Like This<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#The Fruitful Failure of Steven Spielberg\u2019s \u2018Close Encounters of the Third Kind\u2019 Sequel<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<ol itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BreadcrumbList\">\n<li itemprop=\"itemListElement\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ListItem\">                                          <span itemprop=\"name\">Home<\/span>                                       <meta content=\"1\" itemprop=\"position\"><\/meta><\/li>\n<li itemprop=\"itemListElement\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ListItem\">                                                           <span itemprop=\"name\">Columns<\/span>                                                        <meta content=\"2\" itemprop=\"position\"><\/meta><\/li>\n<li itemprop=\"itemListElement\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ListItem\">                                                           <span itemprop=\"name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Movies<\/a><\/span>                                                         <meta content=\"3\" itemprop=\"position\"><\/meta><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li><span itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Person\">             <span itemprop=\"author\">Meg Shields<\/span>                  <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>August 24, 2020<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Steven_Spielbergs_%E2%80%98Night_Skies_was_never_made_but_what_audiences_wound_up_getting_instead_was_much_better\"><\/span>Steven Spielberg&#8217;s &#8216;Night Skies&#8217; was never made, but what audiences wound up getting instead was much better. <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div><em>Welcome to <strong>The Queue<\/strong> \u2014 your daily distraction of curated video content sourced from across the web. Today, we\u2019re watching a video that explores Steven Spielberg\u2019s Dark Skies, the Close Encounters sequel that never came to be.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<p>It\u2019s a rarity, but one of my favorite flavors of behind-the-scenes tidbits is the failed film that splintered into more well-known projects. Concrete proof of the liquid state of the creative process, failures are never really failures while re-working stuck ideas can pay off in spades.<\/p>\n<p>One of the great examples of a fruitful disaster is Alejandro Jodorowsky\u2019s <em>Dune<\/em>. In the mid-1970s, the avant-garde Chilean director was given a blank check to adapt Frank Herbert\u2019s space epic, and the project quickly bloated and never wound up being made. The 2013 (un)making-of documentary <em>Jodorowsky\u2019s Dune <\/em>recounts the details, but in short: Jodorowsky\u2019s efforts led to creative partnerships that spawned <em>Alien<\/em> and <em>Star Wars<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>For another example, we can look to <strong>Steven Spielberg<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>After the success of his 1977 film <strong><em>Close Encounters of the Third Kind<\/em><\/strong>, Columbia Pictures, wanted a sequel. So, Spielberg developed a treatment. And the result was <em><strong>Night Skies<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/em>a loose adaptation of an infamous \u201calien encounter\u201d at a Kentucky farmhouse. While Spielberg got to work on <em>Raiders of the Lost Ark,<\/em>\u00a0<strong>John Sayles<\/strong> worked on the\u00a0<em>Close Encounters 2<\/em> treatment, and <strong>Rick Baker<\/strong> even designed the creatures.<\/p>\n<p>While ultimately <em>Night Skies <\/em>never came together as a feature film, in a way, it still saw the light of day. All told, the work-in-progress wound up instigating collaborations with Tobe Hooper, Melissa Mathison, and Joe Dante. So: had there been no <em>Nights Skies<\/em>, there\u2019d have been no <em><strong>Poltergeist<\/strong>,<\/em> no <strong><em>E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial<\/em><\/strong>, and no<em>\u00a0<strong>Gremlins<\/strong>. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>While audiences never got their indirect <em>Closer Encounters\u00a0<\/em>follow-up, as the video essay below argues, what they wound up getting was arguably much better.<\/p>\n<p>Watch \u201c<b>The Lost Spielberg Film<\/b>\u201c:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SUCYqB3nZ2s?feature=oembed\" title=\"The Lost Spielberg Film\" width=\"700\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Who_made_this\"><\/span>Who made this?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><b>Andrew J. Wright<\/b> (a.k.a. <strong>Dr.<\/strong><b> Urdu<\/b>) is a Canadian video essayist devoted to horror history. The channel aims to shed light on the deeper intricacies of an often derided genre by presenting these films as more than just cheap thrill rides. You can subscribe to Dr. Urdu on <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> here. You can follow Wright on Twitter here.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"More_Videos_Like_This\"><\/span>More Videos Like This<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Another sample of Dr. Urdu\u2019s work on how <strong>Peter Jackson<\/strong>\u2018s career began with horror films<\/li>\n<li>And another, on the societal influences and cinematic origins of body horror films<\/li>\n<li>Here\u2019s Queue favorite <strong>Ryan Hollinger<\/strong> on his childhood trauma with\u00a0<em>Poltergeist<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Entertain the Elk<\/strong> has a breakdown on how Spielberg effectively introduces memorable characters through the use of \u201cAction &#038; Fraction\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Here\u2019s <strong>Patrick (H) Willems <\/strong>on how the way Spielberg hides horror in set pieces may be the key to great blockbusters<\/li>\n<li>And another Queue favorite: <strong>The Nerdwriter<\/strong> on how Spielberg uses sound design can structure a scene<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fandor\u00a0<\/strong>on Spielberg\u2019s uncanny ability to build suspense<\/li>\n<li>This next one requires a Shudder sub<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a>ion: the incredible horror doc\u00a0<em><strong>Cursed Films<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>has an episode unpacking the \u201ccursed\u201d status of <em>Poltergeist\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Here\u2019s\u00a0<strong>Every Thing a Painting\u00a0<\/strong>with an explainer on why Spielberg is the stealth master of the long take<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more Like this articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/social-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Social Media category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>if you want to watch Movies or Tv Shows go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/dizi.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dizi.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a> <\/span> for forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/spielberg-night-skies\/#utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=spielberg-night-skies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#The Fruitful Failure of Steven Spielberg\u2019s \u2018Close Encounters of the Third Kind\u2019 Sequel&#8221; Home Columns Movies Meg Shields August 24, 2020 Steven Spielberg&#8217;s &#8216;Night Skies&#8217; was never made, but what audiences wound up getting instead was much better. 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