Steven Spielberg has a fixation for space. Or, rather, for some kind of species that would inhabit the far reaches of the starry sky, and that has spurred some of his most celebrated science fiction films. First Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Then E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. He tried a less luminous approach in War of the Worlds, and with the complicity of his friend George Lucas he couldn't resist bringing Indiana Jones and the aliens together in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. More than 15 years after the release of this film, Spielberg returns to UFOs.
Or so it seems. The details of the film where he is currently working have barely transcended. It is known that it will be a blockbuster on a scale that Spielberg hasn't handled since Ready Player One, and it has been revealed that the plot will revolve around contacts with beings from other planets. David Koepp writes the untitled film, with whom Spielberg collaborated on Jurassic Park, The Lost World and the aforementioned War of the Worlds and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Universal Pictures has set the release for May 15, 2026.
It would then be a film with a summer vocation, something that had not happened for a long time with Spielberg: The BFG was, in 2016, the last film he wanted to launch under this framework. But what matters now is that, according to Deadline, Spielberg has already found a leading lady. Emily Blunt is in negotiations to take the lead role in the film, working for the first time with the man everyone knows as the King Midas of Hollywood.
