On May 28, 2013, the Alamogordo City Commission approved Fuel Industries, an Ottawa-based entertainment company, for six months of landfill access both to create a documentary about the legend and to excavate the burial site. On April 26, 2014, remnants of "E.T." and other Atari games were discovered in the early hours of the excavation. The burial of the E.T. cartridges were also the basis for the independent 2014 science fiction comedy "", based on the webseries of the same name, and featured Howard Scott Warshaw.