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| This following report has the goods on everything Spielberg (yet, no mention of the Lincoln project), including the real status on INDY 4, possible 3-D, JP4, MUNICH and THE PACIFIC. Enjoy!!! Hi there Harry, I've been a visitor of your site for a while and last night I had the opportunity to engage in a Q & A with Steven Spielberg at USC. He touched base on Munich, Indy 4, Jurassic Park 4, 3-D technology, The Pacific, and more. I'll take these subjects one at a time: MUNICH- He said that John Williams had just started recording the score for Munich yesterday, November 9th, and that he spoke confidently about having it being finished by November 30th. One of my classmates was even bold enough to ask about a potential screening for the class, and Spielberg seemed pretty excited about that possibility. He also said that he did no storyboarding on Munich (he's known for not storyboarding his more personal films) and that he only slept 4 hours a night during shooting, not only because of long days, but because the subject matter refused to let him sleep. I don't know about you guys, but I'm really excited about this one. INDY 4- Remember a while back when Rick McCallum said that the script for Indy 4 was virutally finished? Well, that doesn't seem to be so. Spielberg said last night that George Lucas is still w**king on the script with another writer and that Spielberg and Harrison Ford don't really know what is being done to the script. JURASSIC PARK 4- Spielberg commented on a scene in The Lost World novel that was not included in the movie involving characters on motorcycles outrunning raptors and regretted it not being in The Lost World movie. However, he also said that "that scene IS in Jurassic Park 4." 3-D TECHNOLOGY- There was a recent online article about some new 3-D technology that said that Spielberg was developing some secret technology. Spielberg debunked this rumor. He said that Lucas was developing the 3-D technology and wanted to use it through Spielberg for Indy 4. He commented on the failed attempt at 3-D in the 50's as a way of competing with television and compared it to the current box office situation. He also said that he didn't like the idea of virtually immersing a viewer in a world because he feels it loses the art. THE PACIFIC- Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg are w**king together on a new HBO miniseries set during World War II, but this time around, it's going to be about the war in the Pacific. |
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| Spielberg film 'calls for peace' Director Steven Spielberg has called his new film Munich, about the kidnapping of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics, "a prayer for peace". The Oscar-winning director revealed his views in a rare interview about the potentially controversial film. "I don't think any movie or any book or any w**k of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's worth a try," he told Time magazine. The film is due to be released across the US on 23 December. Leaders of Jewish and Muslim groups, as well as diplomats and foreign policy experts, will preview the film ahead of its US opening. "Somewhere inside all this intransigence there has to be a prayer for peace," said Spielberg, whose award-winning films include Saving Private Ryan and holocaust drama Schindler's List. "The biggest enemy is not the Palestinians or the Israelis. The biggest enemy in the region is intransigence." We don't demonise our targets. They're individuals. They have families Steven Spielberg The kidnapping by a Palestinian group at the 1972 Olympics in Munich led to the death of eleven Israeli athletes, five kidnappers and one German policeman. The film, which focuses on the Israeli response to the kidnappings, sees Troy star Eric Bana play a Mossad agent, alongside Geoffrey Rush and new Bond Daniel Craig. Both the director and screenwriter Tony Kushner interviewed the Mossad agent, played by Bana, at length - but did not reveal his identity. "We don't demonise our targets," said Spielberg. "They're individuals. They have families. Although what happened in Munich, I condemn." Spielberg also discussed a new project in which he plans to give 250 video cameras and players to Israeli and Palestinian children, to allow them to record their everyday lives. "Not dramas," Spielberg said, "just little documentaries about who they are and what they believe in, who their parents are, where they go to school, what they had to eat, what movies they watch, what CDs they listen to." The director then hopes to see the two groups exchange videos, to help them better understand one another's lives. "That's the kind of thing that can be effective, I think, in simply making people understand that there aren't as many differences that divide Israelis and Palestinians. Not as human beings anyway," he said. Story from BBC NEWS: |
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| Koepp Tackling Indy IV War of the Worlds director Steven Spielberg told Fox 411 after the Oscars that he will take a year off from moviemaking, but added that his Worlds writer David Koepp has been brought on board to finish Jeff Nathanson's script for a proposed fourth Indiana Jones movie. "I have David Koepp on it now, and he's my 'closer,'" Spielberg told Fox. "He wrote Spider-Man and War of the Worlds, so he'll get it done." Nathanson (Catch Me If You Can) was only the latest in a string of writers who took a crack at a fourth Indy movie. "George Lucas told me recently that there's a script, and he's happy with the story," Spielberg said, adding: "George Lucas isn't the director. I am." For now, Spielberg finds himself in the unusual position of not having a movie on his horizon. Fox reported that the director will spend part of 2006 preparing his Abraham Lincoln film with award-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin and acting as a producer, not director, on several other smaller projects. |