Steven Spielberg will be making a UFO movie based on an original idea with a David Koepp script

[Edmilson 9,442]

1 hour ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

When's this coming out, again? Sorry, but can't be arsed to Google it 

May 15, 2026. So, in about 20 months 

 

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/steven-spielberg-next-movie-summer-2026-release-date-1236014435/

[Lady Dimitrescu 9,117]

Too far away

[mrbellamy 6,878]

10 hours ago, Jay said:

 

The Dish is not the name of the upcoming Spielberg UFO movie. It's the name of Deadline's rumor section.

 

Some people who read this headline didn't know that, and thought it was naming the movie at the end:

 

https://deadline.com/2024/08/colin-firth-steven-spielberg-emily-blunt-1236041900/

 

That's not where the assumption came from, it was a presentation for IMAX investors that had a Universal movie called The Dish slated between Avengers and Mandalorian, which lined up with the new Spielberg: 

 

 

But I just looked up the source - https://imaxcorporation.gcs-web.com/static-files/326a7c9f-3caa-45b4-b4c2-583d9f18086a - and both The Dish and Dune 3 have been removed from that graphic. 

 

[Jamie Dutton 7,663]

We really need some more sequels. 

[mrbellamy 6,878]

You never get to find out what happened next these days 

[Mr. Hooper 3,750]

 

They must've read my post saying that 'The Dish' was a silly-sounding title...

[Jay 40,305]

3 hours ago, mrbellamy said:

 

That's not where the assumption came from, it was a presentation for IMAX investors that had a Universal movie called The Dish slated between Avengers and Mandalorian, which lined up with the new Spielberg:

 

 

Oh, interesting!  I missed that.  Thank you!

[mrbellamy 6,878]

Another cast member: Colman Domingo

[Jay 40,305]

Josh O’Connor to Star

[Jurassic Shark 13,741]

Link not working. 

[Davis 3,358]

1 hour ago, Jay said:

Josh O’Connor to Star

Is John Williams writing the score is all I care about.

[Pieter Boelen 840]

After this here, can anyone explain to me why this movie is happening??

Why was Spielberg (RIGHTLY!) against aliens "because he did it before and before" when now suddenly he wants to do it all over again??

I don't get it. 

 

Can't Spielberg help make Tintin 2 happen as promised or something? 

Or that Pirate Latitudes movie he was once supposed to direct? 

Now THAT would be INTERESTING!

 

[Mr. Hooper 3,750]

He needs a hit, and he decided that aliens are his best bet.

[crocodile 8,739]

By the time this film comes out, the gap between it and his last aliens movie will be 18 years. I think we can cut him some slack.

 

Karol

[Meredith McKay 7,071]

26 minutes ago, Pieter Boelen said:

After this here, can anyone explain to me why this movie is happening??

Why was Spielberg (RIGHTLY!) against aliens "because he did it before and before" when now suddenly he wants to do it all over again??

I don't get it. 

 

Can't Spielberg help make Tintin 2 happen as promised or something? 

Or that Pirate Latitudes movie he was once supposed to direct? 

Now THAT would be INTERESTING!

 

Doesn't that assume that the movie is about aliens? And not like, UFO "conspiracy" or something?

[Mr. Hooper 3,750]

31 minutes ago, Doo_liss said:

Doesn't that assume that the movie is about aliens? And not like, UFO "conspiracy" or something?

Well if he wants a hit, there better be some darn aliens in it. And not just a dead one on an autopsy table.

[Jamie Dutton 7,663]

I think many of us who don't even like KOTCS can at least get onboard with the alien storyline. The kookiest bits at the beginning with Area 51 were the most entertaining. It's just boring after that.

 

And that's what I expect whatever this movie is to be.

[Pieter Boelen 840]

11 minutes ago, John Dutton said:

I think many of us who don't even like KOTCS can at least get onboard with the alien storyline. The kookiest bits at the beginning with Area 51 were the most entertaining. It's just boring after that.

Shoehorning sci-fi stuff into an archaeological history-based franchise was where it all started to go wrong.

Spielberg AND Ford AND Koepp are on record I believe for being opposed to it and that delayed the production for easily a decade. 

But Lucas wouldn't take no for an answer. 

 

At least I'm grateful they did put some history back in there. 

Imagine if we'd have gotten the 1994 "Saucer Men From Mars" instead. 

Yikes! 

 

1 hour ago, Doo_liss said:

Doesn't that assume that the movie is about aliens? And not like, UFO "conspiracy" or something?

Sounds like you just described CE3K.

And/or ID4, which Spielberg is on record for acknowledging did the concept quite well. 

(See video above.)

[Bellosh 3,973]

Kotcs was a glorified reunion party disguised as a movie, so I get it.

 

Anything Spielberg has me pumped tho. He's the GOAT.

[Meredith McKay 7,071]

6 minutes ago, Pieter Boelen said:

Shoehorning sci-fi stuff into an archaeological history-based franchise was where it all started to go wrong.

Spielberg AND Ford AND Koepp are on record I believe for being opposed to it and that delayed the production for easily a decade. 

But Lucas wouldn't take no for an answer. 

 

 

Sounds like you just described CE3K.

CE3K was about aliens.

[Edmilson 9,442]

1 hour ago, Bellosh said:

He's the GOAT.

Even when he's doing The BFG? 

[Bellosh 3,973]

Just now, Edmilson said:

Even when he's doing The BFG? 

 

He did that in his sleep.

 

GOAT

[Jamie Dutton 7,663]

I don't take issue with aliens in a series about an archeologist who clumsily fistfights Nazis and voodoo witch doctor thugs for relics, all while getting the ancient tomb destroyed. Extraterrestrials probably built the pyramids. Why can't they be in IJ?

[Bellosh 3,973]

Yeah agreed aliens never were the problem.

 

The cringe family shit was the problem.

[Jamie Dutton 7,663]

It felt more like a Disney movie than the Disney movie.

[pete 1,025]

They weren't aliens. They were interdimensional beings - from another dimension, maybe. 

[Davis 3,358]

Yes, George Lucas pushed it down Spielberg’s throat with that reasoning. So clever.

[crumbs 15,125]

7 hours ago, Doo_liss said:

CE3K was about aliens.

 

The interesting thing about Spielberg's alien films is that, ultimately, none of them are really about aliens.

 

Close Encounters was about communication.

E.T. was about friendship.

War of the Worlds was about a society coping with trauma.

Crystal Skull was about finding treasures that aren't gold (albeit handled in the most hamfisted, clumsy way possible).

 

They all feature aliens but Spielberg's actually exploring other things.

[Lady Dimitrescu 9,117]

1 hour ago, pete said:

They weren't aliens. They were interdimensional beings - from another dimension, maybe. 

 

So they were alien to our dimension.

[pete 1,025]

27 minutes ago, The Train Station said:

 

So they were alien to our dimension.

Good point!

[Pieter Boelen 840]

9 hours ago, Bellosh said:

Kotcs was a glorified reunion party disguised as a movie, so I get it.

I do believe that's true. 

They did it for the fun if making it. 

Less so for the quality of the final result. 

 

9 hours ago, Doo_liss said:

CE3K was about aliens.

My point exactly.

 

7 hours ago, John Dutton said:

I don't take issue with aliens in a series about an archeologist who clumsily fistfights Nazis and voodoo witch doctor thugs for relics, all while getting the ancient tomb destroyed. Extraterrestrials probably built the pyramids. Why can't they be in IJ?

Stargate did that WAY better!

 

7 hours ago, Bellosh said:

Yeah agreed aliens never were the problem.

 

The cringe family shit was the problem.

Family stuff was undercooked also. 

Last Crusade showed that could be done much better too.

But yeah, those aliens did cause trouble for 10 years in the development.

[Davis 3,358]

1 hour ago, The Train Station said:

 

So they were alien to our dimension.

Interdimensional aliens.

[Bayesian 1,448]

We haven’t arrived yet at the point when KotCS is remembered fondly as a good movie, but that day is coming. In the meantime, I look forward with huge anticipation to Spielberg’s alien movie. Is he in production on it yet?

[Jay 40,305]

No

[Meredith McKay 7,071]

6 hours ago, Pieter Boelen said:

My point exactly.

 

 

And my point is this:

 

In the CE3K, Wars of the Worlds, we see the aliens throughout, we see them do stuff.

 

In E.T. the alien is the main character.

 

We don't know if that will be the case in this film

[Thor 8,701]

1 hour ago, Bayesian said:

We haven’t arrived yet at the point when KotCS is remembered fondly as a good movie, but that day is coming.

 

Looking forward to that day also. There are some films where I've stood on the barricades since they came out, in wild defense against a horde of naysayers. WATERWORLD, THE PHANTOM MENACE, A.I. - ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, PROMETHEUS....in the case of A.I., people have FINALLY started to come around to see it as the masterpiece that it is. WATERWORLD is appreciated more than when it came out, but not on that level. PROMETHEUS and COVENANT will probably have to wait a bit more.

 

INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL (phew, that title!) was never an unheralded masterpiece like A.I., but it's FAR better than what critics made it out to be, and superior to DIAL OF DESTINY in most ways. I hope at least the good parts are recognized more as time goes on.

[Edmilson 9,442]

1 hour ago, Bayesian said:

We haven’t arrived yet at the point when KotCS is remembered fondly as a good movie, but that day is coming.

That should already have happened, right? People who were kids/teens in 2008 are all grown up by now, enough to be nostalgic about the movies of the day. And the movies of that day that people remember fondly are more like Iron Man, Kung Fu Panda, The Dark Knight, Hellboy 2, WALL-E, etc., but nothing from KOTCS yet.

 

But hopefully this will never happen and Crystal Skull will join its fellow 2008 movies 10,000 B.C. and The Mummy 3 in the rank of films who were bad then and are bad now.

[Thor 8,701]

1 minute ago, Edmilson said:

But hopefully this will never happen and Crystal Skull will join its fellow 2008 movies 10,000 B.C. and The Mummy 3 in the rank of films who were bad then and are bad now.

 

10.000 B.C., that's another one of those I liked from the moment I saw it, but met few others who have. Then again, it isn't brought up a lot in the first place, unlike SKULL.

[Jamie Dutton 7,663]

9 hours ago, The Train Station said:

 

So they were alien to our dimension.

 

They were interdimensional aliens, and they resembled the sort of stereotypical grays of UFO folklore.

[Lady Dimitrescu 9,117]

I miss all the alien stuff from the 90s. Grey aliens were everywhere, like Communion, Intruders, Fire in the Sky, Roswell, Official Denial, Dark Skies, The X-Files, Stargate SG-1, Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County, etc.

[Thor 8,701]

Yeah, good times. By the time (the very entertaining) PAUL came around, plus that alien in AMERICAN DAD, it was pretty much game over as far as their "scariness" was concerned.

 

There was one in NO ONE WILL SAVE YOU recently, but I just felt sorry for it.

[Lady Dimitrescu 9,117]

The Fouth Kind was pretty spooky.

[Thor 8,701]

I think SIGNS was the last time it was truly scary.

[Davis 3,358]

Another Spielberg-Williams UFO movie would be great, even though I don’t think there is anything left in this genre that SS hasn’t told already.

[GerateWohl 5,344]

1 hour ago, Thor said:

PROMETHEUS and COVENANT will probably have to wait a bit more.

Yeah, probably like... forever. 

[Jay 40,305]

33 minutes ago, The Train Station said:

I miss all the alien stuff from the 90s. Grey aliens were everywhere, like Communion, Intruders, Fire in the Sky, Roswell, Official Denial, Dark Skies, The X-Files, Stargate SG-1, Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County, etc.

 

The current TV series "Resident Alien" has greys (starting with the second season).  One is voiced by George Takei!

[Thor 8,701]

10 minutes ago, GerateWohl said:

Yeah, probably like... forever. 

 

[Davis 3,358]

1 hour ago, Edmilson said:

10,000 B.C.

I remember it not being all that terrible, more like watchably bad. Is it really so shitty? Because I’m thinking about rewatching it. 

[Edmilson 9,442]

20 minutes ago, Davis said:

I remember it not being all that terrible, more like watchably bad. Is it really so shitty? Because I’m thinking about rewatching it. 

I haven't seen it since 2008, but teenage me thought that movie was utter dog poo poo. 

 

Worst part is that I was with a girl in the movie theater, and I spent the whole movie thinking "how could I bring this cute girl to such an awful movie?". But then again she had made me watch P.S. I Love You, so I guess we were even 

[Thor 8,701]

28 minutes ago, Davis said:

I remember it not being all that terrible, more like watchably bad. Is it really so shitty? Because I’m thinking about rewatching it. 

 

Do it. I think it's fine, but then you're speaking to the forum's biggest Roland Emmerich fan. 

 

I'm also a buff for the prehistoric era. Very few films made about that in the first place.

We're way off-topic now, and Jay tears his hair out in frustration.