Audrey Hepburn is now helping Wang Jie take care of his Fox Studios, Hollywood Angel's connections in the American entertainment industry are still very impressive, Fox's film and television production in recent years has made other peers envious, jealous and hateful, and some film companies have secretly obstructed it more than once, but unfortunately the effect is minimal, and the summer release of "Raiders of the Lost Ark 1: Ark of the Law" once again hit a box office of nearly $400 million, and once again caused the shock of the entire Hollywood, and they all watched Wang Jie's next move.

Wang Jie only stayed on the farm for less than five days before being urged by Shirley Lansing to return to ILM, and after more than ten days of busyness, he finally completed all the post-production of "City of Angels", and the film began to enter the publicity stage.

Idle and bored, Wang Jie is ready to start the preparatory work for "ET", Spielberg was the first choice, but after several years of getting along, Wang Jie finally found that the relevant records left by history are not so credible, at least a person's conduct is not as everyone saw before, Wang Jie is ready to come by himself, with the original version as a reference, Wang Jie believes that he will definitely be able to shoot a more classic "ET".

In the preparation stage of the film, Wang Jie first determined Audrey Hepburn as the producer of "ET", and then Luca Dottie also became the actor of the male protagonist Elliott, Wang Jie thought for a long time, and simply let Audrey Hepburn play Mary, the mother of three children, anyway, the change is big enough, Wang Jie finally decided to let his little apprentice Wu Jing play Elliott's brother Michael, as for the skin color, the script changed to Wu Jing was adopted by Mary and his wife, and in the original version of the actor, Wang Jie only retained Gerty's actor Drew Die. Barrymore.

After consulting Drew Barrymore's life, Wang Jie believes that this is a woman with great luck, and if it were not for being used as a cash cow by her parents in childhood, her achievements would have been even higher.

Wang Jie asked the housekeeper Jim Sr. to contact Drew Barrymore's father, John Drew Barrymore, and her mother, Adicon Gid Marco. The Barrymore family's energy in Hollywood is very large, and it is also an American film family, Wang Jie does not want to make the two sides inseparable, and after many negotiations, he finally obtained the custody of Drew Barrymore at a high price of five million US dollars, and repeatedly promised that the girl would be given a good learning and living environment, and Drew Barrymore's parents have certain visitation rights.

This time, Wang Jie chose a total of two people as his assistant director for the filming of "ET", one is Xu Ke, Wang Jie has always thought that Xu Ke was delayed in Xiangjiang, Xu Ke is a director who is very willing to try new things, and he is also very concerned about the innovation and development of film technology, but unfortunately the limitations and various shortcomings of the Xiangjiang film industry finally made him have to make a lot of compromises. Another assistant director Wang Jie chose Audrey Hepburn's eldest son Sean Hepburn Ferrer, at first Sean Hepburn Feller was reluctant, to be an assistant director for his "little father", no matter how he thought about it, he was embarrassed, under Hepburn's repeated persuasion, for his own future, Sean Hepburn Feller finally agreed.

The inspiration for the film can be traced back to director Steven Spielberg when he was 14 years old, after his parents divorced, he imagined an alien friend who accompanied him, and in 1978, he announced that he would shoot an autobiographical film called "Growing Up" in 28 days, although the plan was shelved due to the postponement of "1941", Spielberg never gave up on the idea. Spielberg also considered a follow-up to "Contact of the Third Kind" and teamed up with John Sells to prepare a dark film called "Night Skies," which tells the story of an evil alien who coerces a family. While filming Raiders of the Lost Ark on TNS, the idea of childhood memories took over his mind again, so he revealed the cancelled Night Sky to screenwriter Melissa Matheson, and conceived subplots, such as Buddy, the only friendly alien, who befriends a withdrawn child, and the scene where Buddy is abandoned on Earth at the end of the film inspired the film. It took Matheson eight weeks to complete the first draft of the play, titled "E.T. and Me," and then went through two revisions. In this time and space, Wang Jie adapted the complete plot into a novel in advance and published it, seizing the IP, making this film history legend come to naught, if it weren't for Spielberg's bad relationship, Wang Jie originally wanted to restore this period of history, and now, the boy can only achieve this miracle by himself.

The image of E.T. in the original play is still too simple, Wang Jie prepared two sets of shooting plans this time, on the one hand, he commissioned the Chinese mainland to contact Wang Baohe, a Wuqiao folk performance artist with the title of "ghost hand", to play the dynamic version of ET, and on the other hand, let Industrial Light and Magic, who had designed the alien Carlo Lamberdi (Carlo) for "Contact of the Third Kind". Rambaldi) made a life-size mechanical E.T., Wang Jie gave the design drawings in advance, and deliberately proposed that the facial features must be designed by drawing on the faces of Einstein and Hemingway, and must be cute and full of wisdom. Wang Jie sent people to the Jules Stein Eye Institute to study the human eye and glass eyeballs, and hired the society's staff to make E.T.'s eyes. The crew was asked to create four E.T. heads, one of which was used as part of the machine, and the rest were used to complete the facial expressions. The entire model cost nearly $2 million to make.

On September 15, 1981, "ET" officially started filming at ILM in Burbank, during the filming, Wang Jie in order to prevent the leakage of the relevant characters of the crew, the film adopted the pseudonym of "A Boy's Life", the crew required the actors to close the door when reading the script, and all people who appeared on the set must wear ID cards. In order to stimulate the real and credible emotional performance of the actors, Wang Jie chose to shoot in the chronological order of the script story, and for the first time, he gave up the use of plot series boards. In order to get one step closer to photographing realistic aliens, most of the cinematography in the film is shot at the eye level of a child.

There is a saying in Hollywood that the most difficult shots for a crew to grasp are children and animals. Wang Jie is also the first time to shoot a film with child actors, at first the children were a little afraid of ET, the alien, but fortunately, ET's dynamic actor Wang Baohe performed a lot of interesting Chinese folk tricks for the children with makeup, so that the children gradually liked ET, and the filming went smoothly.