‘ET’ mannequin sells for USD 2.6 million at huge film prop public sale
By AFP
LOS ANGELES: The authentic animatronic mannequin used to carry big-eyed alien ET to life in Steven Spielberg’s traditional sci-fi movie offered this weekend for a whopping USD 2.6 million, in accordance with public sale organizers.
The merchandise was offered as a part of a two-day mega-sale placed on by Julien’s Auctions and Turner Classic Movies that included over 1,300 props starting from Robert DeNiro’s Raging Bull boxing gloves to Chris Hemsworth’s Thor hammer.
But the very best ticket merchandise was the extra-friendly extra-terrestrial, whose glowing finger and childlike innocence melted hearts in 1982, earlier than the age of ubiquitous computer-generated imagery.
With 85 mechanical joints, almost every part strikes on the ET mannequin, from the eyes to the neck, and naturally that pointy finger that was held aloft because the alien knowledgeable his new buddy Elliott that he wished to “phone home.”
A maquette of ET additionally offered for USD 125,000, whereas one of many bikes used within the movie’s climatic getaway scene went for USD 115,000.
Other film memorabilia offered on the Beverly Hills public sale included the workers that Charlton Heston used to half the Red Sea in “The Ten Commandments” — which went for USD 448,000 — and Daniel Radcliffe’s Nimbus 2000 broomstick from the Harry Potter movie sequence, which fetched USD 128,000.
LOS ANGELES: The authentic animatronic mannequin used to carry big-eyed alien ET to life in Steven Spielberg’s traditional sci-fi movie offered this weekend for a whopping USD 2.6 million, in accordance with public sale organizers.
The merchandise was offered as a part of a two-day mega-sale placed on by Julien’s Auctions and Turner Classic Movies that included over 1,300 props starting from Robert DeNiro’s Raging Bull boxing gloves to Chris Hemsworth’s Thor hammer.
But the very best ticket merchandise was the extra-friendly extra-terrestrial, whose glowing finger and childlike innocence melted hearts in 1982, earlier than the age of ubiquitous computer-generated imagery.
With 85 mechanical joints, almost every part strikes on the ET mannequin, from the eyes to the neck, and naturally that pointy finger that was held aloft because the alien knowledgeable his new buddy Elliott that he wished to “phone home.”
A maquette of ET additionally offered for USD 125,000, whereas one of many bikes used within the movie’s climatic getaway scene went for USD 115,000.
Other film memorabilia offered on the Beverly Hills public sale included the workers that Charlton Heston used to half the Red Sea in “The Ten Commandments” — which went for USD 448,000 — and Daniel Radcliffe’s Nimbus 2000 broomstick from the Harry Potter movie sequence, which fetched USD 128,000.
