This is the first film of Steven Spielberg’s daughter

Steven Spielberg may have competition. His daughter, Destry Allyn Spielberg, is making her directorial debut on his first film. The 26-year-old girl has closed an agreement to follow in her father’s footsteps, making her debut as a filmmaker. Although she had already signed some shorts before, Spielberg’s daughter is facing a feature film for the first time. Her father – pictured above with her (left) and American actress Kate Capshaw, Spielberg’s second wife and Destry Allyn’s mother – is more than happy to turn the cinema into the clan business: “ It’s exciting for the whole family.”

That’s how it is Four Assassins (And a Funeral)Destry Allyn Spielberg’s first film

Destry Allyn Spielberg has closed a deal with Thunder Road Pictures, the company of producers Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee, to direct his first film: Four Assassins (And a Funeral) —four murderers and a funeral, in Spanish-. The project is based on a script by Ryan Hooper, also a first-timer in the Hollywood industry. Promoted by the project incubator The Black List, the film has been described by those who have read the script as a kind of salad of Kingsman, daggers in the back Y succession. Doesn’t sound bad, right?

As Steven Spielberg has recounted in a podcastthe contract has reached the hands of Destry Allyn through a short film that the young woman, Let Me Go (The Right Way), premiered at the Tribeca festival last year. Filmed on a script by Owen King and with Hopper Penn and Brian D’Arcy James as protagonists, the short film of the following Spielberg caught the attention of the producers of the saga of john wick (which gives us one of the most anticipated series of 2023 on Amazon Prime Video). That was how Thunder Road Pictures offered him to direct Ryan Hooper’s script. “With a respectable budget, too,” Steven Spielberg qualifies.

Destry Allyn Spielberg thus closes her debut as a feature film director, after years under suspicion of a nepotism that is not foreign to Hollywood, and that has recently exploded with the so-called nepo-babies. However, the filmmaker’s daughter faced accusations of plugging months before the term caught on. Specifically, in 2021, with the announcement of the premiere of her short film. “I’ve been trying to break into the film industry for over seven years,” she said then. “No matter who you are, it’s fucking hard. The name only helps so far.”

According to the filmmaker, Destry Allyn Spielberg has been surrounded by cinema since she was little. Despite a certain initial passion for equestrian arts – she had horses since she was three years old – the director soon stopped being interested in horse riding to begin to feel fascinated by cinema. In fact, her father gave her a job filming her recent review of West Side Story, something she had always wanted to do. In addition, says the filmmaker, Destry was always a very good photographer, especially with the handling of composition and the use of black and white, so Spielberg already suspected that she would be the only one of her seven children to follow in her footsteps. so clearly, although all his offspring are, in one way or another, connected to the artistic world.