In an interview with Collider, Steven Spielberg talked up quite a few of his upcoming projects.
On the next Tintin:
“I’m not going to say which stories have been chosen for Peter Jackson’s sequel because Peter and I agreed that we weren’t going to let that information out yet. The script is now being written. It’s more than one book, but it’s not three books, so that means it’s two books. It’s two and a half books that we’re combining with The Secret of the Unicorn. And Peter will start working on the film this year. When he’s done shootingThe Hobbit, he’ll begin his performance capture work with the actors later in 2012, which I’m very excited about. And of course, I’m hoping I’ll be able to direct the third one. I’d love to do the third one because I had so much fun on the first one.”
On Robopocalypse:
“I just finished shooting a movie about Abraham Lincoln staring Daniel Day-Lewis which I am so deeply proud of. But because I am right in the middle of the editing of Lincoln, I’m not really going to speak and talk very much about that until the time is right to talk about it. And I’m making a science fiction movie probably in September called Robopocalypse based on Daniel Wilson’s book. It’s a cautionary tale about war between human beings and robots. It’s a big crowd pleaser, I think, a big action popcorn movie with a message. The message is actually in the popcorn! You have to get the popcorn, dig down deep in the bottom and they’ll be a message about what Robopocalypse is really about! And I have a couple of other plans which I don’t want to go into because they’re too far out of the horizon. But there’s a lot of work ahead, a lot of television my company is producing for some of the networks and some of the cable outlets. So I’m busy!”
Spielberg has announced plenty of projects in the past 5 years, and many of them never came to fruition. At one point, he was directing a remake of Harvey. Another interesting one was Intersteller, which was a mysterious science fiction film based around physicist Kip Thorne’s theories of wormholes and gravity fields. Whereas this project is still supposedly being scripted by Jonathan Nolan as we speak, nothing has solid has surfaced from it in years. So when Spielberg says he is going to make something, especially something as hard to swallow as Robopocalypse, which kind of sounds like a Syfy Channel Original Series, it is best to take with a grain of salt. Thankfully, Lincoln, a project that at one point seemed to be in “Development Hell” as well, did become a reality.
In the same article, he is also asked about Jurassic Park 4, where he sets the record straight. As you might have suspected, he is producing, not directing. He couldn’t give any further details.
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