John Elvin has worked as an artist for more than 135 Blockbuster films starting with Blazing Saddles in 1974 including Blade Runner The Goonies Lord of the Rings Harry Potter Pirates of the Caribbean and Jurassic Park but when he was tapped to design the poster for the 1982 hit ET the Extraterrestrial where he utilized his daughter's hand as a model crafting an image considered an nostalgic symbol of unlikely friendship and everlasting childhood this is an original promotional movie illustration
for that famous poster so what's it worth well in 2016 it was sold at auction by Heritage auctions for an out of this world price of $394,000
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