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He first considered doing a documentary or a low-budget feature film about people who believed in UFOs.

Spielberg decided " a film that depended on state of the art technology couldn't be made for $ 2. 5 million.

" Borrowing a phrase from the ending of The Thing from Another World, he retitled the film Watch the Skies, rewriting the premise concerning Project Blue Book and pitching the concept to Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz.

Katz remembered " It had flying saucers from outer space landing on Robertson Boulevard West Hollywood, California.

I go, ' Steve, that's the worst idea I ever heard.

" Spielberg brought Paul Schrader to write the script in December 1973 with principal photography to begin in late-1974.

However, Spielberg started work on Jaws in 1974, pushing Watch the Skies back.