15 Movies Inspired By Things That Happened To The Creators

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15 Movies Inspired By Things That Happened To The Creators

Turns out, Dan Aykroyd didn’t just develop a more or less random idea into Ghostbusters. He’s so totally into the paranormal, and claims to have had so many paranormal experiences, that he, for all we know, he wrote Ghostbusters as a docudrama (probably). Here’s that story, plus 14 others:

Steven Spielberg's memories of his parents' divorce inspired E.T. He started writing a story about his mom and dad getting divorced, and when he was shooting Close Encounters of the Third Kind, he thought about what might happen if the alien stayed behind and became friends with a child whose

Source: People

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