What is it that I missed?' I think I hadn't told her the story very well because I told her the story again and she got really emotional," Spielberg shared. "She came to me the next day and said, 'OK, you got Harrison so excited about this. She doesn’t want to write my next movie.' He said, 'Well, let me talk to her.'"īy the next day, Mathison had changed her tune – at least enough to hear Spielberg out. "I went to Harrison and said, 'Your girlfriend turned me down. I’m not interested in writing anymore, it’s too hard," the director recalled. "She said, ‘Well, I’m retired from writing. Spielberg "pretty much had worked out most of the story" for E.T., and decided to pitch it to Mathison. Spielberg made the revelation while presenting the 40th anniversary screening of the 1982 sci-fi classic at the TCM Classic Film Festival last week, sharing that it was Ford who found him a screenwriter in the star’s then-girlfriend, Melissa Mathison.Īs Spielberg told it, he was on location in Tunisia filming Raiders of the Lost Ark when Ford arrived on set with Mathison, who previously penned 1979’s The Black Stallion, a film Spielberg was a big fan of. Turns out Harrison Ford had a hand in the success of Steven Spielberg's E.T.
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