E.T. Is Coming to Blu-Ray This Fall

If you're a Steven Spielberg fan, this is a really good year to own a blu-ray player.  In August we're getting a blu-ray release of Jaws, and that Indiana Jones box set will hitting store shelves in October.  Hell, we're even getting Empire of the Sun on blu-ray next month. 

But with this being the 30th Anniversary of E.T. The Extra Terrestrial - a milestone I'm still not entirely coping with, since I'm old enough to have seen it in the theater three times when it was first released in 1982 - this is probably the release that fans should be happy to see is indeed coming this year. 

Details on the blu-ray are vague so far:  no specific release date yet, and no word on what the bonus features will be.  But there is a trailer, courtesy of Universal's YouTube channel, and if you watch closely, you can see that the gun-toting federal agents are back, which should confirm that we will definitely be getting the original 1982 version of E.T., instead of the 2002 walkie-talkie edition.  Yay!

Now hopefully Universal will do what they did for the Back to the Future blu-ray release two years ago and bring E.T. back to theaters for a few nights.  There's nothing quite like watching that goodbye scene as watching it in a theater full of sobbing people...and enjoying every moment of it anyway.