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* [[What Could Have Been]]: The first choice to play Gertie? [[Juliette Lewis]]. Her father made her turn down the role and Barrymore was cast instead.

** [[Stan Winston]] turned down the opportunity to work on ''E.T.''. He would regret doing so.

* [[Unintentional Period Piece]]:

** Averted nicely unlike a lot of 80's movies. You can tell it was filmed in the 1980's due to the cars, the TV, and the family owning an Atari 2600, but it doesn't stick out like other examples. Many of the pop culture references they make like ''[[Star Wars]]'' or ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' are still known by today's audiences.

** On the other hand, jock older brother Michael's introduction has him playing ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' without hinting at him having any geeky or creative [[Hidden Depths]], which firmly grounds the film in the early 80's (the height of ''D&D'''s popularity as a fad) for fans of the film who are roleplayers.

** The book "E.T. from Concept to Classic" features many plot points and scenes cut from the script. One subplot from an early draft was to have a rival to Elliott named Lance who wanted to expose E.T. The spaceship was going to land in a parking lot, but it was changed to a forest because that sounded more magical, amongst many others.