The film which is considered by many to be the best job of Steven Spielberg won a new house streaming for four decades after it fascinated the first audience. The classic science fiction, And the alienshould invade Netflix next month.
Netflix confirmed the arrival of several blockbusters on September 1, in particular AND The Epic Spielberg adapted to families, which was presented in first in 1982, is also available to broadcast via Hulu in the United States and Amazon Prime Video abroad. He also succeeded in the success of world streaming earlier this summer.
Produced by Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, AND was designed by Spielberg on the basis of an imaginary friend whom he created after the divorce of his parents. The film was initially presented to Columbia Pictures, who rejected it when they doubted its commercial potential. Universal Pictures finally picked it up, with Spielberg who puts the film on the back of his success in the backdrop before his release with the Indiana Jones classic, Raiders of the lost arch.
A large part of AND Centers around two children’s characters, represented by Henry Thomas, who continued to play Fall legends And New York gangsand Drew Barrymore, later known for his roles Shout and the Charlie’s Angels franchise. The film tells Elliott Taylor, 10, 10, who became friends with a sweet foreigner left on earth and brings him home to present him to his brothers and sisters, including his younger sister Gertie (Barrymore). Attempt to keep his new friend, whom he surgos and (expressed by Star Wars: The return of the Jedi ‘S Pat Welsh), secret, Elliott meets trouble when and falls ill, causing government intervention and chaos that followed for all the people involved.
Made with a budget of $ 10 million, and has become the most profitable film in history when it was released ($ 762 million worldwide), a record that was held to Spielberg Jurassic broke in 1993. The film also exceeded national charts for 16 weeks, which also set a record. The best rated Spielberg film of all time (99% critical notation on Rotten Tomatoes), AND won nine Oscar nominations and four victories.
Steven Spielberg never had the desire to make one and 2
Despite its success, AND has never received Spielberg going to great lengths to prevent potential follow -up. Explaining his decision against a sequel, said Spielberg The Hollywood Reporter“I didn’t want to do a sequel. I flirted with a little – just a little to see if I [could] Think of a story – and the only thing I could think was a book that was written by someone who wrote the book for that called The green planet, What was all going to take place at and. We all were going to be able to go to and see how and live. But it was better as a novel that I don’t think it would have been like a film. I never intend to see AND anywhere outside this proscenium. “”
Meanwhile, Spielberg begins in the genre of science fiction for his next feature film, an unknown UFO film at Universal. The secret film, with Emily Blunt and Colman Domingo, was written by JurassicDavid Koepp and will be released in theaters on June 12, 2026.
AND becomes available via Netflix on September 1.