ET had a VERY different original ending that DIDN’T break your heart: Which do you prefer?

Get a big box of tissues ready.

Nobody can get through that final emotional scene without blubbing like little Miss Barrymore.

It is one of the most iconic moments in movie history and when that glowing finger reaches and and ET says “I’ll be right here”… well, we need a moment to compose ourselves. But one of the stars has revealed how the movie originally ended very differently before it was changed during the final days of shooting.

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Robert MacNaughton played Elliot’s older brother, Michael, and has been revealing some remarkable moments about the film shoot.

He told Yahoo! Movies that the original ending was far more low-key. Even though it lacked the overt emotional punch of the final version, it still provided a sense of catharsis and also symbolised how Elliot had grown up thorughout the movie.

Even more excitingly, it also demonstrated that Elliot was still in contact with his alien buddy.

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MacNaughton said: “The last scene in the movie wasn’t supposed to be the scene that ends up in the movie.

“The last scene was going to be all of us playing Dungeons and Dragons again, except this time, Elliott’s the dungeon master. Because he was the one that found ET, he sort of got in with the group. And so that was supposed to be the final scene, it was in the script and everything, and then they would pan up to the roof and you’d see the communicator and it’s still working — in other words, Elliott is still in touch with E.T.”

He added: “But after they did the score, the music, and they saw what they had with the spaceship taking off and everything… How can you follow that? I mean, it was a wise choice.”

Dungeons and Dragons was always being played at the house of E.T. screenwriter Melissa Mathison and her husband at the time, Harrison Ford.

MacNaughton revealed that his own childhood love of the game may have helped him get the part.

He recalled his first meeting with Spielberg: “One of the things he asked me was, ‘What do you like to do?’ I said, ‘Well, I ride bikes a lot.’ He goes, ‘Yeah, that’s in the movie.’

“And I said, ‘I play Dungeons and Dragons.’ And he goes, ‘That’s in the movie too.’ [Laughs] So it was just I said all the right things, I guess.”

MacNaughgton retired from acting when he was 30 and now works for the US postal service.

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