The original animatronic figure of ET, the alien, used in Steven Spielberg’s film of the same name, found a buyer this weekend for $2.6 million (2.45 million euros), according to the organizers of the sale.
The two-day flagship lot of these auctions, run by Julien’s and Turner Classic Movies, featured 1,300 other movie props, from Robert De Niro’s boxing gloves in Raging Bull to Thor’s hammer. .
The friendly alien has been one of the most famous characters in pop culture and science fiction since the release ofYa great success, in 1982.
The entire figure is articulated.
Almost the entire figure is articulated: his googly eyes, his long neck and, of course, his light-up finger that glows in the movie before saying his cult line “And the telephone house.”
A model of the brown alien was also sold for $125,000 (117,000 euros), slightly more than one of the motorcycles used in the final scene, which sold for $115,000 (108,000 euros).
Other iconic objects of the seventh art were on sale and reached high bids, such as the stick with which Charlton Heston split the Red Sea in two in The ten Commandments (448,000 dollars, about 422,000 euros) and the Harry Potter Nimbus 2000 broom (128,000 dollars, about 120,000 euros).
Source: BFM TV
