The ‘Kon-Tiki’ filmmaker is back, directing ‘Star Wars’ heroine Daisy Ridley in ‘Young Woman and the Sea,’ which opens today. He tells Deadline about how seeing 1982’s ‘E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial’ as a 10-year-old set him on a path to helming big-scale fare including Disney’s upcoming sequel ‘Tron: Ares.’ Jac Venza, who was a key to helping American television in the 1960s and '70s transform into
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