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Steven Spielberg says he does not think about how many more movies he will make in his directing career
Spielberg, who turns 80 in December, is returning to the science fiction genre with his new movie Disclosure Day
Disclosure Day is in theaters June 12
Steven Spielberg may turn 80 at the end of this year, but he does not appear to think about retirement.
Spielberg, 79, is currently promoting his new movie Disclosure Day, which lands in theaters Friday, June 12. The movie is something of a full-circle moment for the legendary filmmaker in its alien-themed subject matter, which he first tackled nearly 50 years ago in 1977’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind and has returned to in movies like 1982’s E.T. the Extra Terrestrial and 2005’s War of the Worlds.
Spielberg has maintained an efficient pace in making new movies even through his 70s — Disclosure Day will mark his sixth movie as a director since The BFG in 2016 — and in a new interview with the Associated Press, he appeared unconcerned with how many more movies he will make before his career ends.
“I never think about how many more I have. I’m just hopeful that I will be inspired when something comes along, as I was with Disclosure Day, as I was with Fabelmans, as I was with West Side Story,” he said.
Steven Spielberg on the set of Disclosure Day
Credit: Niko Tavernise/Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment
Spielberg’s last movie The Fabelmans was notably largely autobiographical; it was based on his own childhood, his parents’ divorce and how he grew interested in making movies in the first place.
As the AP reported, Spielberg returned to his long-held fascination with the potential for intelligent life outside Earth and was inspired to make Disclosure Day by groundbreaking hearings Congress held on unexplained aerial phenomena (UAP), the term government organizations now use instead of UFOs, back in 2023.
“It’s my first film that will be considered science fiction that I do not consider to be science fiction. It’s much more reflective of the world as it is evolving and discoveries that are being made as we speak,” he told the outlet.
Disclosure Day stars Josh O’Connor, Emily Blunt, Eve Hewson, Colman Domingo, Wyatt Russell and Colin Firth. Little has been shared about the movie’s story prior to its theatrical release, beyond the notion that it deals with characters learning of the existence of non-human intelligence on Earth. O’Connor’s character Daniel, who appears to hold the key to releasing this information publicly, is on the run from those who seek to keep it secret.
Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor in Disclosure Day
Credit: Niko Tavernise/Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment
Spielberg also told the AP that he next intends to make a Western, a genre he has not dealt in during his more than 50 years as a movie director.
“I always feel like parts of the [Indiana Jones] adventure movies are like Westerns. Whenever Harrison [Ford] was on a horse, it made me wistful for wanting to direct a full Western, a real Western,” he said.
The filmmaker also shared that he was “developing a Western” during a March 13 moderated conversation at SXSW in Texas with The Big Picture podcast host Sean Fennessey. “It’s going to have horses, and there will be guns, but there will be no tropes,” Spielberg said when asked for any details on his next project. “I can just tell you that. There will be no stereotypes, no tropes.”
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Disclosure Day is in theaters June 12.
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