77 years old, 41 films, 3 Oscars: this legendary director returns to science fiction!

Two years after Fabelmans, Steven Spielberg returns to his first love. variety It was recently announced that the legendary director is currently working on a new alien film based on an original idea. The filmmaker is writing the script with his Jurassic Park and War of the Worlds co-star David Cope.

We still don’t know anything about this mysterious project, but Spielberg has returned to sci-fi feature aliens with the cult films Close Encounters of the Third Kind, ET the Extra-Terrestrial and. War of the worlds It’s great news.

These three films were huge box office successes and had a profound impact on the history of science fiction cinema. Steven Spielberg He has played a major role in the genre, not only with his Alien films, but also in works such as Minority Report, AI and most recently Ready Player One.

Spielberg projects

Winner of 3 Oscars (Best Picture and Best Director for Schindler’s List in 1994 and Best Director for Saving Private Ryan in 1999), Steven Spielberg is currently working on several projects as a producer.

He will most notably collaborate with Martin Scorsese as an executive producer on the Apple TV+ television series based on Scorsese’s 1991 film Nerves. The director is also producing a 7-episode series on Napoleon based on Stanley Kubrick’s unfinished work.

He’s also behind Lee Isaac Chung’s new film Twisters, director Gareth Edwards’ Jurassic World 4, and Josh Singer’s remake of Bullitt alongside Bradley Cooper.

An Alien film should be his next production, as the projects “This Is What I Do” and “The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara” have apparently been abandoned by the filmmaker, who has not discussed these films since their announcements in 2015 and 2016.