CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND Movie Script 100p - 1977 - Steven Spielberg, Schrader

Important  Info: Note that this script is the revised draft and the screenplay was written by Paul Schrader and Steven Spielberg (see above). Also note that there are a multitude of different colored revision pages from many different dates from between 4/22/76 and 5/10/76.  This script belonged to director/screenwriter Charles Shyer. He was close friends with both producer Julia Phillips and original screenwriter Paul Schrader who wrote the original version of this script, and as noted above, not that much of his original script remains unaltered (the script has "SS changes included" on the title page, which means that the revisions were Steven Spielberg's, but what was left of the original script was Paul Schrader's.

Finally, that this script ends with the original ending where you hear the original 1940s recording of Jiminy Cricket singing "When You Wish Upon a Star". The song was played in the first previews of the movie, and the audiences did not respond well to it, so it does not appear in the final version of this movie in this way, although the melody was incorporated into John Williams' score, but the original ending with the lyrics of the song is in the script offered here!