On the previous thread
Flight 714: why can't people accept it for what it is?, Bashi Bazouk commented about
Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
This got me thinking if Speilberg was inspired by
Flight 714 when he was preparing and making
Close Encounters?
Flight 714 was published as a book in 1968, and almost 10 years later Speilberg produces
Close Encounters.
We all know of Speilberg being probably our most famous comrade in Tintin fandom, so it could be feasible that a little influence was there.
Form the fact that he was inspired by the books when making
Raiders, and with his hopefully forth coming
Tintin movie, I believe this is a reasonable question.
Anybody think the same, disagree, or have an examples?
Moderator Note: As has been discussed elsewhere, Mr. Spielberg was apparently unaware of Tintin until the books were brought to his attention by an interviewer after
Raiders of the Lost Ark came out; furthermore, as
he didn't create Indiana Jones, or write any of the movies, so while he did contribute to story ideas and development, the inspiration might have been to others, but not to him.
It would probably be more accurate to say that Hergé and Spielberg both were influenced by a fascination with space and UFOs popular at that time, and as typified by the works of Erich von Däniken - see
here for a discussion of this topic.