In the 43 years since the release of Steven Spielberg’s E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, many of the original screen-used body models of the lovable alien have fallen apart from age. But a few survived the ravages of time, and one of them is going up for auction soon at Sotheby’s. And it could fetch as much as a million dollars. Via Boing Boing, we learned that the 3-foot-tall artifact is from the collection of Hollywood special effects artist Carlo Rambaldi. His daughter brought the model, along with several other E.T.-related items, to the world-famous auction house.
The model is part of an auction named There Are Such Things: 20th Century Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy on Screen. Among the other items are fairly significant pieces of fantasy and sci-fi film history. Items from The Wizard of Oz, Total Recall, Blade Runner, Labyrinth, Jurassic Park, and David Lynch’s Dune are all part of this auction. Speaking of Dune, they’ve also got three 1964 issues of Analog Magazine containing the first serialized chapters of Frank Herbert’s novel. Unlike the E.T. model, these will only set you back a mere few thousand dollars.
If you’re a fan of classic horror, there are also several movie posters from the iconic Universal Monsters movies. The name of the auction, “There Are Such Things,” is from a line from Tod Browning’s 1931 Dracula. In fact, Bela Lugosi’s Dracula cape from Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein is also up for sale. There are also a lot of original movie posters from Star Wars. (You just can’t have one of these sci-fi auctions without some kind of Star Wars presence). The auction There Are Such Things: 20th Century Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy on Screen begins on March 21, and ends on April 5. For more information, head on over to the official Sotheby’s site.
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