Stranded on Earth: How Night Skies Became E.T. the Extra Terrestrial

Author and film journalist Max Evry returns with Stranded on Earth: How Night Skies Became E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, a follow-up to his acclaimed bestseller, A Masterpiece in Disarray: David Lynch’s Dune.

Stranded on Earth is a thrilling insider’s look at the long, winding road that brought 1982’s E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial to the big screen. Following Steven Spielberg’s journey from his teenage UFO film Firelight in the 1960s through 1977’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the book th...