Watching Steven Spielberg accept the “Honorary Golden Bear” at the Berlin International Film Festival this week, one thing was crystal clear: he’s not hanging up the camera anytime soon.
Spielberg is once again back in the Academy Awards picture with his deeply personal new movie The Fabelmans, but what’s next from one of the greatest filmmakers of all time?
During his acceptance speech at Berlinale, Spielberg brought up his early horror works including Duel and Jaws a couple times, at one point teasing a potential return to the genre.
“I feel a little alarmed to be told I’ve lived a lifetime because I’m not finished. I want to keep working,” Spielberg made it clear during his speech. “I want to keep learning and discovering and scaring the shit out of myself and sometimes the shit out of you.”
Spielberg continued, “I gotta get back to some of those earlier scarier movies but that’s another story for later on. As long as there’s joy in it for me and as long as my audience can find joy and other human values in my films, I’m reluctant to ever say that’s a wrap.”
The 76-year-old filmmaker of course has a long history with the horror genre, producing classics including Poltergeist, Gremlins, Twilight Zone: The Movie, and Arachnophobia. But it’s been many years since Spielberg has directed a horror movie of his own, with War of the Worlds (2005) bringing him back to the genre over ten years after the original Jurassic Park.
Could we someday see another return to horror for Steven Spielberg before he calls his career a wrap? We’re not getting our hopes up, but it’s certainly not out of the question at this time.
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