Steven Spielberg Has "No Idea" What His Next Movie Will Be After The Fabelmans: "But I Need To Work And I Love To Work"
Steven Spielberg has "no idea" what his next film is going to be.
Speaking at a press conference the Berlin International Film Festival, where he was feted with the Honorary Golden Bear award, on Tuesday (Feb 20), Spielberg, 76, said he's “been on a bullet train making film after film after film for so many decades" that he felt strange not knowing what he is going to next after his current film, The Fabelmans.
"And it's kind of a nice feeling, and it's also a horrible feeling. It's nice that I can actually have control of my life again and make my own choices. But I need to work and I love to work. That's the biggest question I'm going to have for the rest of the year, trying to figure this out."
The Fabelmans, which is is loosely based on Spielberg's childhood and early years as a director, wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for the Covid-19 pandemic.
The three-time Oscar winner said: "The fear I felt about the pandemic gave me the courage to tell my personal story.
"[It made me ask] if there was one movie I hadn't made yet that I would now have time to make, what would that be?
"I always wanted to tell the story about my mother and my father, my sisters, and this amazing struggle between art and family.
"It's come out in all my films. All my films are really personal, and many of them are about family. But nothing that is so specific to my experiences as The Fabelmans."
During the press con, Spielberg gave an update on a seven-part limited series for HBO based on Stanley Kubrick's unmade film Napoleon. (Maybe his next project is the Bullitt remake with Bradley Cooper.)
Whatever it is, Spielberg isn't done making movies.
In his acceptance speech (via Variety) for Golden Bear the following day, Spielberg said, "I know a lot more about moviemaking than I did when I directed my first feature film at 25. But the anxieties and the uncertainties and the fears that tormented me as I began shooting Duel have stayed vivid for 50 years, as if no time has passed.
"And luckily for me, the electric joy I feel on the first day of work as a director is as imperishable as my fears, because there’s no place more like home for me than when I’m working on a set."
He continued, “I also feel a little alarmed to be told I’ve lived a lifetime because I’m not finished, I want to keep working. I want to keep learning and discovering and scaring the shit out of myself, and sometimes the shit out of you.
“I gotta get back to some of those earlier scarier movies, but that’s another story for later on. As long as there’s joy in it for me, and as long as my audience can find joy and other human values in my films, I’m reluctant to ever say that’s a wrap.”
The Fablemans is up for seven Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actress (Michelle Williams). Mediacorp will livestream the 95th Academy Awards on meWATCH and Channel 5 on Mar 13, starting from 6.30am SGT; the main show kicks off at 8am.
The Fabelmans (PG13) is now in cinemas.
— BANG SHOWBIZ
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