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Looking forward to it.
Not to be flippant but hasn't Spielberg made this film at least a dozen times over by now?
The only film of his that feels close is ET, which he has admitted is autobiographical, with its portrait of a single mom struggling to raise kids in the suburbs.
Beyond that, there are some similarities in the DNA of scenes in Catch Me If You Can, Close Encounters and Poltergeist (which he didn't "officially" direct, lol)
Other than those, I can't think of anything else where he recreated this family dynamic. I mean families are at the core of most of his films, but in a more general way.
And the only 50s suburban material he has ever shot is the nuclear test prologue in Indy 4.  Though I guess there are a couple of 60s suburban family scenes in Bridge of Spies, but it's hardly the focus of the film.
I'm interested to see that he's doing this just as Kenneth Branagh, another director I love, has done the same thing, having shot his autobiographical film BELFAST last fall.
I'm looking forward to both films and to the scores I presume we will get from Williams and Doyle.
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I would add some scenes and themes from Hook and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade as well. This planned movie seems to be a great project for Williams.
Hmm.. Hook and Last Crusade definitely deal with family, but they're more about fathers. Last Crusade is exclusively about his father, the mother is already dead even in the opening flashback scene. Hook is primarily about the father too, though the mother is present sometimes and has a few lines here and there.
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Spielberg actually needs to make the film (he has a history of abandoning projects), then Williams needs to be asked and accept.
Every director gets attached to lots of projects and never makes them, Spielberg is the same.
This is a very different case though. Production has been announced, with a start date, along with the lead actress.
I can only think of two times where this happened with Spielberg and the film was cancelled:
- The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara - production was announced for early 2017, with Mark Rylance and Oscar Isaac in the lead roles. Ads were even taken out in the trades. Production was cancelled when Spielberg announced that his search for a child to play the other, titular, lead had been unsuccessful. In the end, it's a VERY good thing that iteration of the film was cancelled. It was a co-production with The Weinstein Company, and was scheduled for release at Christmas of 2017, right when the Harvey Weinstein scandal was exploding.
- Robopocalypse was also announced, with a start date in early 2013, as was the casting of Anne Hathaway and Chris Hemsworth. Spielberg's specific reason for cancelling it just before filming has never been publicized.
I can't think of any other announced projects of his that had a start date and didn't happen. It's very different from just announcing an attachment.
As for Williams, the only Spielberg film he was ever not asked to score was The Color Purple, because the contracts with Quincy Jones, who controlled the material, apparently forbade anyone other than him from scoring the film.
Williams will be asked, most likely he already has.
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Actually, the number of "abandoned Spielberg projects" over the years are probably well up in their 20s by now, in various stages of attachment.
This one seems like it's more likely, especially given the tight schedule, but - "wise from damage", as we say over here - I'm not getting my hopes up untill it's more or less in the theatres. Or at the very least untill the composer (hopefully Williams, but with BRIDGE OF SPIES and READY PLAYER ONE fresh in memory, and his general age and semi-retirement, we can't be sure) is having his actual recording sessions.
That's the way I've approached ALL Spielberg news in the last 20 years. Cautious optimism, nothing more, nothing less.
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Actually, the number of "abandoned Spielberg projects" over the years are probably well up in their 20s by now, in various stages of attachment.
This one seems like it's more likely, especially given the tight schedule, but - "wise from damage", as we say over here - I'm not getting my hopes up untill it's more or less in the theatres. Or at the very least untill the composer (hopefully Williams, but with BRIDGE OF SPIES and READY PLAYER ONE fresh in memory, and his general age and semi-retirement, we can't be sure) is having his actual recording sessions.
That's the way I've approached ALL Spielberg news in the last 20 years. Cautious optimism, nothing more, nothing less.
Again, you're referring to projects he was merely attached to. Announcements in the trades that a director is attached to something are loose and often mean nothing. Big directors have tens of announcements like that at any one time, and I'll bet if you went through all the announcements for the other directors of his level of prestige - Ridley Scott, David Fincher you'd find the same.
EDGARDO MORTARA and ROBOPOCALYPSE are the only ones of his that I know of in the last 20 years or more that had start dates and cast announced and didn't happen.
There is no reason to doubt this film will happen.
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I’m well aware of all of these things, but I believe it’s my right to be cautious, just as it is yours to be absolutely sure.
I'm not claiming to be "absolutely sure" the film will get made and will have Williams scoring it. Nobody can be certain, anything can happen.
I'm just saying there's no reason to assume the worst and doubt Spielberg will make the film, unless something actively prevents him from doing it.
I'm really just rebutting the unfair claim that Spielberg abandons projects (particularly projects this far along) on a regular basis, or with more frequency than other top directors.
If anything, the top director who has had the most projects near a start date (or even start) but then get shut down is Fincher. He has had multiple features and TV projects with announced start dates and cast that didn't happen. Off the top of my head, I can think of World War Z 2, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Torso, Mission Impossible 3, his miniseries "Utopia" for HBO, and also his HBO series "Videosyncrazy," which had actually filmed a few episodes when it was shut down, according to reports.
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