Steven Spielberg: What happens to the hero after The Fabelmans ends?

In the final sections of The Fabelmans, we are in 1965. The young hero Sam is taking courses at the university and receives a letter inviting him to go to the CBS studio. On the spot, producer Bernie Fein (as Greg Grunberg) forces him to meet with John Ford and tells him that the chain will launch the comedy Papa Schultz.

With the Fabelmans, Spielberg is romancing and reinventing his youth, but what will happen to young Sammy/Steven when the movie ends?

In fact, at this point, Steven Spielberg takes part in a visit to the Universal studio and sneaks out to watch the pros at work. After the sympathy of the film librarian, the young man manages to return for several days in a row, which means that in the end they let him go without even stopping him.

I spent almost two months at Universal Studios. And it was this summer that I became an unofficial apprentice. A few years later, in 1968, he met John Cassavetes, who hired him to produce Faces for two weeks. It was in this year that Spielberg met a new producer, Dennis C. Hoffman, who gave him the opportunity to make a short silent film called: Amblin.

The film tells the story of how a man and a woman meet in the middle of a hippie wave and have fun together until he discovers a mysterious guitar case, which he keeps away from.

The Universal-produced short opened for Otto Preminger’s Skidoo and won prizes at three smaller festivals. Studio Vice President Sidney Sheinberg sees the film and offers the new director a 7-year contract. Spielberg becomes the youngest director to sign such a major deal with a major studio. He is only 22 years old.

The filmmaker’s first official job under this contract will be the conservation of a portion of the pilot episode of Rod Sterling’s Night Gallery series.

Amblin would represent a kind of lucky star for Spielberg and in 1981 would become the name of his production company: Amblin Entertainment.