Steven Spielberg reveals his JAWS sequel idea and a cool E.T. story

Steven Spielberg has confirmed that Jaws is coming to Blu-ray in the future. I was glancing at my Twitter feed and noticed Eric Vespe (Quint at AICN) announce he'd just gotten off the phone with Spielberg. One I was jealous as hell, two I was excited to read the interview in honor of the upcoming anniversary of the film's 1975 release. There are a ton of amazing behind the scenes stories and proves once again that he loves what he does and is a true fan of film. 

Spielberg talks a bit about why he did not direct the Jaws sequels, which was because of sea sickness. He goes on to say he's got a great idea from one of the scenes from the film, that would make a sequel he'd be interested in directing. Spielber responded to Vespe's question of “Do you have any idea what you would have done with a sequel?” Below is what Spielberg had to say:

No, no idea at all, but I have a very, very good scene which I thought would have been good for a sequel someday, which I will tell you someday because I don’t want it in print. But I’ll tell you my scene some day. Every time I think of this scene I think, “Hmmm, could this be another Jaws movie?” and I have to immediately stop myself and immediately pull myself back down to Earth.

Here is an excerpt of the conversation when Vespe asked Spielberg about a special White House screening of E.T.:

[Reagan] just stood up and he looked around the room, almost like he was doing a headcount, and he said, “I wanted to thank you for bringing E.T. to the White House. We really enjoyed your movie,” and then he looked around the room and said, “And there are a number of people in this room who know that everything on that screen is absolutely true.”

And he said it without smiling! But he said that and everybody laughed, by the way. The whole room laughed because he presented it like a joke, but he wasn’t smiling as he said it.

The room did laugh and then later on I’ll never forget my conversation with the President. He pulled me aside, he said… and I can’t do Reagan. I wish I could do that breathy, wonderful voice of his… And Nancy Reagan was standing right next to him and the President said to me, “I only have one criticism about your movie,” and I said “What’s that?” He said, “How long were the end credits?” I said, “Oh, I don’t know. Maybe three, three and a half minutes?” He said, “In my day, when I was an actor, our end credits were maybe 15 seconds long.”

He said, “Why don’t you let everybody get a credit… three and a half, four minutes, that’s fine, but only show that inside the industry, but throughout the rest of the country reduce your credits to 15 seconds at the end?” Nancy Reagan turned to him and said, “Oh, Ronny, they can’t do that. You know that.” And he went, “Oh, yes, yes. I suppose.” (laughs) That was the extent of my conversation about that . That was his only criticism, he felt the end credits were too long!

That is just funny that Reagan thought the credits were too long. This is an amazing interview that you need to check out in it's entirety. Read the full AICN interview here, there is so much more to check out.