Having played in a sandbox he helped create with this year’s Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg is set to step into a genre for the first time with the news that his untitled Western movie will begin filming next year.
The legendary director’s decision to strap on the boots and kick up some dust on the North American plains was revealed in a Hollywood Reporter career retrospective of Janusz Kamiński, Spielberg’s long-time cinematographer.
The Polish visionary has worked with Spielberg on Schindler’s List, Saving Private Ryan, Minority Report, and Disclosure Day, among others. The article states that the duo will once again collaborate on an untitled Western, with Kamiński drawing on his knowledge of the Sudeten Mountains and transporting those visuals to the classic American genre.
Little is known about Spielberg’s Western, but he did say at SXSW in March that “it kicks ass” adding that “There will be horses. There will be guns. There will be no tropes, I can tell you that. There’s going to be no stereotypes.”
Spielberg will be hoping to bounce-back from the muted response to Disclosure Day, which landed in the summer with high expectations, but was met with middling reviews and only $250 million at the worldwide box-office.
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