Steven Spielberg | His next film looks like (finally) being a western, shooting in 2027

Steven Spielberg is preparing to make his long-cherished western, with filming hopefully going ahead in 2027. More here. Having scratched a sci-fi itch again with this year’s Disclosure Day, it sound as though Steven Spielberg is keen to get back into the saddle fairly quickly. Not just metaphorically either: the bearded one is finally, finally, ... Steven Spielberg | His next film looks like (finally) being a western, shooting in 2027

Steven Spielberg is preparing to make his long-cherished western, with filming hopefully going ahead in 2027. More here.

Having scratched a sci-fi itch again with this year’s Disclosure Day, it sound as though Steven Spielberg is keen to get back into the saddle fairly quickly. Not just metaphorically either: the bearded one is finally, finally, going to be making his long-cherished western.

Given how enamoured Steven Spielberg has long been with the genre, perhaps the only surprise is that it’s taken him this long to get one off the ground. Still, he was talking about it during the promotional tour for Disclosure Day at least, and it’s now lined up as his next film.

The news has come to light courtesy of a piece over at The Hollywood Reporter with director of photography Janusz Kaminski.

In that piece, Kaminski confirmed that the plan was to get filming at some point next year. Furthermore, that the project remains untitled, but very early preparatory work is going on in Kaminski’s head at least. You’ll find his specific comments at the bottom of this article.

There’s an element of doubt remaining. Even though it’s Spielberg, westerns are hardly box office gold, and the word that pops up in the trade report is “hopefully” shooting the movie next year. Somewhere along the line, he has to find someone to pay for it. Universal stumped up for Disclosure Day and is unlikely to see a profit on the movie for a little while yet.

But still: this feels like it should happen and probably will. Certainly it’s at the very least gone to talking about it, to people getting into the frame of mind to make the actual thing. As and when we hear more, we’ll let you know.

Spielberg has snuck legendary western director John Ford into this work before of course, enlisting the late David Lynch to help out there in 2022’s The Fabelmans.