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20 August 2010 6:18 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

In 1977, a science-fiction/fantasy/action film written and directed by George Lucas, Star Wars, grabbed the pop culture zeitgeist like few films before or after. While I saw Star Wars several times that summer, another film held my imagination and interest until its November release date. The film in question? Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Steven Spielberg's follow-up to Jaws, the blockbuster adaptation of Peter Benchley's bestselling 1974 novel. Long production delays and massive overruns were quickly forgotten as Jaws became the all-time box-office leader, if only temporarily (Star Wars took the title two years later). Post-Jaws, Spielberg could pick any project to direct, ultimately deciding to return to a long gestating project that began with a screenplay written by Paul Schrader (Mishima, Raging Bull, Taxi Driver) originally titled Watch the Skies (after the last line from 1951's The Thing from Another World).

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