
Around the same time, Columbia Pictures demanded a sequel to Close Encounters. Spielberg wanted no part of that, though he had a small idea about what would have happened if an alien didn’t go back to the mothership at the end of that movie. When the project was shelved, Spielberg moved on to another big-budget film, 1941, but the basic idea stayed with him.

It included the feelings of alienation Spielberg felt being Jewish in an all Gentile neighborhood in Arizona and was told from the perspective of three children. Entitled Growing Up, the proposed movie was inspired by the divorce of the young director's parents when he was 15 years old. With his newfound success following the back-to-back smash hits of Jaws in 1975 and Close Encounters of the Third Kind in 1977, director Steven Spielberg wanted to tell a smaller, more personal story for his next film. was initially patched together from different ideas for separate movies. the Extra-Terrestrial, which arrived in theaters on June 11, 1982. Two years later, he raised his profile yet again with Close Encounters of the Third Kind then proved that he would dominate the box office throughout much of the 1980s with Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and E.T.

In 1975, an up-and-coming filmmaker named Steven Spielberg invented what would soon become known as the " summer blockbuster" by scaring people out of the water with Jaws.
