Night Skies

Night Skies
Directed byTobe Hooper
Written byJohn Sayles

Night Skies is an unproduced science fiction horror film that was in development in the late 1970s. Steven Spielberg conceived the idea after Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Instead, material developed at the time was used in Poltergeist, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial[1][2][3] and Gremlins.

  1. ^ Grefrath, Richard W. "Review: The Greatest Sci-Fi Movies Never Made." Library Journal, University of Nevada Library, Reno, Nevada, 2002.
  2. ^ "The Fruitful Failure of Steven Spielberg's 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind Sequel". Film School Rejects. August 24, 2020.
  3. ^ "Spielberg's Unmade 189s Horror Movie Ended Up Creating 2 Iconic Films Everyone Knows Today". Screen Rant. July 14, 2023.