Edited sentence: (Ray wrote in detail about this: ‘ET would not have been possible without my script of The Alien being available throughout America in mimeographed copies.Famed Indian film maker Satyajit Ray was ripped off by Steven Spielberg.It was going to star Marlon Brando in 1969.Ray and Spielberg had the same agent (although about 15 years apart) and the agent gave the idea to Spielberg’s attention (from a book on Ray): …the plagiarizing of Ray’s 1967 script “The Alien” by Columbia Pictures and its re-emergence as Steven Spielberg’s E.Ray wrote a script called ‘The Alien’ and it was set to be his first Hollywood film, but was cancelled at the last minute before preproduction