The Sotheby’s house will auction an original model of the extraterrestrial ET of the famous movie of the 80s of Steven Spielberg, from the personal collection of the artist of special effects and makeup, Carlo Rambaldi.
The model that will be put on sale is one of the only three ET dolls used during the 1982 classic and will have an estimated price of between 600,000 and 900,000 dollars.
It will be part of an exhibition on horror, science fiction and fantasy cinema of the twentieth century, which will be auctioned between March 21 and will end on April 3.
This model, just over 90 cm high, is the one that stars in the “closet scene”, in which ET disguises between the stuffed animals of a very young Drew Barrymore.
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An original ET model from the Steven Spielberg movie comes to auction
Together with the ET model, which Rambaldi designed with Spielberg, additional articles from the collection of the special effects artist, including unpublished sketches of the extraterrestrial, as well as a robotic study of one of his eyes, will be included.
For production, the director insisted the artist to take reference to Albert Einstein and Ernest Hemingway for the eyes of the extraterrestrial, and Rambaldi finally was inspired by his cat and an Italian painting that represented the women of their homeland characterized by their long necks.
The extraterrestrial, which cost between 15 and 20 hours of work per day and more than one million dollars, was able to make 150 different movements, such as wrinkling the nose, frowning and extending the neck.
Together with the model, two models of sand worms used on screen in ‘Dune’ of the newly deceased David Lynch will be sold, An adaptation of the 1965 Frank Herbert novel, in addition to an egg and a robotic dinosaur of the Japanese film of ‘Rex: a Dinosaur’s Story’.
With EFE information.
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