ET will soon have a new home to call: The puppet of cinema’s most cult alien will go up for auction this Saturday, November 17, 40 years after the release of Steven Spielberg’s masterpiece. their child’s soul should snap up the “number one” robot designed for the film, put up for sale by the specialized house Julien’s Auctions. Estimated at between two and three million dollars (!), the price of this one-meter-tall mechanical figurine could soar well beyond that. With its aluminum frame and exposed cables, the puppet is a little gem of a engineering, made up of 85 mechanical joints capable of moving the nose, eyes, eyelids, neck, arms… Enough to give full life to this creature abandoned on Earth, including the story of friendship with little Elliott moved the world. Animated by a dozen people on set, the alien seemed so real that actress Drew Barrymore, who played “the little sister [d’Elliott] in the film, really believed that ET belonged to a real living species”, reminds AFP Martin Nolan, the executive director of Julien’s Auctions. was addressed to special effects specialist Carlo Rambaldi. The Italian, father of the King Kong of 1976 and the Alien of Ridley Scott in 1979, had won thanks to ET a third Oscar. The big blue eyes of the extraterrestrial, which have melted generations with the replica “AND telephone house“, are inspired by those of his Himalayan cat. Beyond this puppet, enthusiasts will also be able to acquire unpublished sketches used to the character design, or even one of the bikes (estimated between $30,000 and $50,000) that follows Elliott and ET in the cult scene where they soar to the Moon. Coming Saturday and Sunday in Beverly Hills and online , the auction brings together around 1,300 legendary objects, drawn from decades of Hollywood life. Enthusiasts and collectors will be able to snap up several dresses of the icon Marilyn Monroe (between 40,000 and 80,000 dollars), the brandished stick with which Charlton Heston split the Red Sea in The Ten Commandments (between 40,000 and 60,000 dollars), or even a model of the Shooting Star, one of the racing broomsticks straddled by certain characters from the Harry Potter saga (between 30,000 and 50 0 00 dollars). Beyond these exceptional pieces, a number of more modest objects, belonging to the Marvel universe, Star Wars, or Terminator, are also put under the hammer. Less fortunate fans, for example, will be able to compete for the resin cast capable of driving Jim Carrey crazy in The Mask, priced around 1,000 dollars.
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