It is a bizarre aspect of Hollywood that films are sometimes given launch dates earlier than different vital milestones have been reached, like the flicks being completed, or the flicks being named, or generally the flicks having even been written. I get it—large studios need to lock down that launch date actual property earlier than another person grabs it—nevertheless it’s nonetheless unusual to announce a date when individuals will have the ability to go see a film, then flip to the manufacturing crew and say, “OK, so… what’s our film gonna be about?”
Working example: Steven Spielberg’s upcoming movie has a solid that features Emily Blunt and Colin Firth, however apparently nonetheless does not have a reputation—IMDB calls it “Untitled Steven Spielberg Amblin Common Occasion Movie.” Catchy! It does, nevertheless, have a launch date. In accordance with Selection, it is popping out on June 12, 2026, which is a transfer from its authentic launch date of Could 15, 2026.
How a couple of plot. Does it have a plot? Selection says the movie is “reportedly UFO-related,” and it is being written by David Koepp, who additionally wrote Struggle of the Worlds and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Cranium for Spielberg. I am unsure if that is signal: each of these films had UFO stuff in them, it simply wasn’t excellent UFO stuff. Hopefully it will be extra like Shut Encounters of the Third Form and E.T.: The Further-Terrestrial, each of which had extraordinarily good UFO stuff in them.
Why am I even writing about this? Nicely, Spielberg has all the time had ties to gaming, contributing to the design of LucasArts journey recreation The Dig within the ’90s and creating Medal of Honor with Digital Arts within the 2000s. It is not all great things, although: he made a reasonably unhealthy recreation referred to as Steven Spielberg’s Director’s Chair in 1996, plus he directed Prepared Participant One in 2018. That had some UFO enterprise in it, too—Unwatchable Movie Offenses. Sure! Gottem.
Hopefully a UFO-related challenge means Spielberg is returning to blockbuster popcorn films as a substitute of the heavier dramas he is principally been doing these days. Nothing towards The Fabelmens (which I did not see) however I do not need to watch a Spielberg film about making films, I need to watch a Spielberg film about alien craft. Pew pew!
