Original doll of “ET O Extraterrestrial” goes to a millionaire auction

The original doll of “Et O Extraterrestrial” was the auction. You can bid the model seen in the movie directed by Steven Spielberg on the Sotheby’s auction house website.

The house expects bids between US $ 600 (R $ 3.3 million) to 900 thousand (R $ 5.1 million) by the doll until April 3, when the auction will be closed.

With an initial bid of $ 500,000, the original model, created is almost a meter high and was developed by Carlo Rambaldi, special effects artist known as films such as “Alien”, “Conan” and “Duna”, David Lynch’s version.

From the closet scene to the auction

The doll appears in the scene where the extraterrestrial is seen hiding among his stuffed animals in Elliott’s cabinet (Henry Thomas) in the Spielberg movie, released in 1982.

The item is part of Rambaldi’s personal collection, which died in 2012 and won the Oscar for better visual effects by “ET O Extraterrestrial”, “Alien” (1979) and “King Kong” (1976). The play is part of the collection “There Are Such Things: Terror, Science Fiction and 20th Century Fantasy on Sotheby’s screen.

“We are really honored to collaborate with Sotheby’s and deeply grateful for this opportunity to take my father’s work to auction,” Daniela Rambaldi, Carlo’s daughter, told the press.

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This content was originally published in an original doll of “Et O Extraterrestrial” goes to a millionaire auction on the CNN Brazil website.

Source: CNN Brasil

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