77 years, 42 films, 3 Oscars: when will we see this legend of cinema, applauded all over the world?

Ready Player One, the latest sci-fi film from Steven Spielberg, airs tonight on TMC. An opportunity to review the projects of the iconic filmmaker.

Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars by AlloCiné viewers, this feature film inspired by Ernest Cline’s bestseller is set in 2045. The world is on the brink of chaos. Humans take refuge in the OASIS, a virtual world designed by the brilliant and eccentric James Halliday. Before disappearing, he decided to bequeath his vast fortune to anyone who could find the digital Easter egg he had taken care to hide in the OASIS. Profit cheating leads to global competition. But when a young boy, Wade Watts, who does not have the profile of a hero, decides to take part in a treasure hunt, he is immersed in a parallel world that is both mysterious and disturbing…

Starring Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Simon Pegg, Lena Waithe and Mark Rylance, Ready Player One grossed over $580 million internationally. A sequel is also in the works, but if Steven Spielberg is producing, he shouldn’t be directing.

Sequel to Ready Player One… as a producer

In November 2020, the author Ernest Cline Publishes a sequel to his novel under the sober title “ready second player”. Warner Bros is planning to make a movie about it. However, nothing has been officially announced yet.

Asked last March by US site Showbiz411 about a sequel to his sci-fi film, Steven Spielberg revealed that he would not be directing but producing it, adding:We’re still in the discovery phase trying to figure out what’s nextThe film adaptation of “Ready Player Two” is still in its early stages, so it’s still unclear who will replace the Oscar-winning director of Schindler’s List and Saving Private Ryan on stage.

2026 sci-fi movie with aliens

However, the director of Indiana Jones and ET the Extra-Terrestrial will soon be back behind the camera. Three years after The Fabelmans, Steven Spielberg is making a new sci-fi movie about aliens based on the filmmaker’s original idea. Spielberg co-wrote the screenplay with his co-star from Jurassic Park and World of Worlds, David Koep. The plot is still under wraps and we still don’t know who the cast will be, but Universal has already set a release date for the as-yet-untitled film: May 13, 2026.

Spielberg’s return to sci-fi feature filmmaking after the cult alien films Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and extraterrestrial 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 has played a major role in this genre, not only with his Alien films, but also with science fiction such as Minority Report, AI Artificial Intelligence, Jurassic Park and more recently Ready Player One.

Steven Spielberg collaborates with Martin Scorsese

Winner of 3 Oscars (Best Film and Best Director Schindler’s list In 1994 and the best achievement We have to save Private Ryan 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 movie Twisters, Gareth Edwards’ Jurassic World 4 and Josh Singer’s Bullitt remake with Bradley Cooper.