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Films directed by Steven Spielberg
29 articles
Unrealized projects
Duel
The Sugarland Express
Jaws
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1941
Raiders of the Lost Ark
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
The Color Purple
Empire of the Sun
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Always
Hook
Jurassic Park
Schindler's List
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Amistad
Saving Private Ryan
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Minority Report
Catch Me If You Can
The Terminal
War of the Worlds
Munich
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn
War Horse
Lincoln
St. James Place
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Indiana Jones films
5 articles
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Major contributors: Wildroot and Alientraveller
  • Robopocalypse
  • Pirate Latitudes
  • The Trial of the Chicago 7
  • Lincoln
  • Oldboy
  • The 39 Clues
  • Chocky
  • Interstellar
  • The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara and a remake of West Side Story
  • American Snipe
  • Matt Helm
  • Harvey
  • Indiana Jones 5
  • Martin Luther King, Jr. biopic
  • Moses: Gods and Kings
  • The BFG

DreamWorks Studios has acquired the film rights to Michael Crichton's final tome "Pirate Latitudes" for Steven Spielberg to produce and potentially direct. David Koepp will adapt for the bigscreen. Crichton completed the period action-adventure before his death last November. Crichton's final manuscript, which HarperCollins plans to publish on Nov. 24, was found in completed form by Crichton's assistant. Set in 1665, "Pirate Latitudes" revolves around a daring plan to infiltrate Port Royal, Jamaica, one of the world's richest and most notorious cities, and raid a Spanish galleon filled with treasure. Spielberg's next directing project is "Harvey," a co-production between DreamWorks and 20th Century Fox. Pic is based on Mary Chase's Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a man who befriends a 6½-foot-tall invisible rabbit. Production is set to begin early next year.[1]

McBride
  • 120: Rear Window fan
  • 128: Color Purple and Kubrick fan
  • 170-177: Night Gallery
  • 177-179: Snow White and early Sugarland
  • 180-182: Unproduced, Ace Eli
  • 199-207: Duel
  • 208: Something Evil, Sugarland and McKlusky
  • 209-210: Savage
  • 211-Clearwater
  • 211-224: Sugarland
  • 225: Sugar/Jaws
  • 227-240: Jaws
  • 24) : Lucky Lady
  • 241-260: Jaws and Jaws II
  • 294: Amy-Star Wars and Carrie
  • 96: Pirate movie, Negro Baseball, Magic, 12Angry Men
  • 297: Tank
  • 298-300: Hold Your Hand, After School/Growing Up, 1941
  • 300-309: 1941
  • 326-336: E.T.
  • 336-340: Poltergeist
  • 340-341: Gremlins
  • 341-353: Twilight Zone
  • 365-378: Color Purple
  • 380: Studio offers
  • 396-398: Empire of the Sun
  • 393: Schindler's List
  • 398, 400-403: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
  • 405: Amy's roles
  • 406-409: Always

Duel: http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,316077,00.html Jaws: http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,314589,00.html

1970s

Mid-late 1973
  • Around this time Spielberg turned down a script given to him by an A-list actor because he didn't think the actor was right for the role.[2]
  • In mid-1973 Spielberg approached Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz on doing a film about the early life of Thomas Crapper, similar to Young Tom Edison (1940). Huyck and Katz wrote a film treatment titled Flushed with Pride: The Story of Thomas Crapper, based on Wallace Reyburn's 1969 book of the same name. Huyck recalled, "we gave it to our mutual agent, Guy McElwaine, who said, 'Steve, if this is the kind of movie you want to do, I don't want to be your agent.'"[2]
James Bond and Superman
  • During the filming of Jaws, Spielberg expressed interest in directing Superman. Producer Ilya Salkind was enthusiastic to hire Spielberg, but his father Alexander was skeptical, feeling it was best to wait for the release "of that fish movie of his". Jaws was released with box office success, prompting the producers to offer Spielberg the position, but he was already committed to Close Encounters of the Third Kind.[6]

1980s

  • Before taking
    Universal Pictures, Spielberg tried to sell the studio on a musical titled Reel to Reel, which he had been developing with Gary David Goldberg. It was "a semi-autobiographical original story by Spielberg about a young director making his first movie, a science fiction musical. One of the main characters was based on Sidney Sheinberg. While in London working on Raiders of the Lost Ark, Goldberg wrote the script. Spielberg planned to direct Reel to Reel after Raiders, but Universal did not like his pitch, thus Spielberg did E.T. By 1983 Spielberg took the project to Columbia Pictures as producer and Michael Cimino directing. Reel to Reel never materialized.[9]
  • Spielberg originally planned to produce Empire of the Sun with David Lean as director. When Lean dropped out Spielberg took over. In the mid-1980s, Spielberg agreed to produce a film adaption of Nostromo for Lean as director. In February 1987 Spielberg and Lean experienced creative differences. Christopher Hampton, who wrote the script for Nostromo said Spielberg withdrew from the project "because he could see there would be some sort of fight between him and David and he wanted to avoid that". Lean continued preparing the film until his death in 1991.[10]
  • Spielberg announced in 1989 that he planned to make a film dealing with his childhood years in
    L.A. that looks like Cincinnati, nothing."[13]

1990s
  • For years, Spielberg's animation studio Amblimation had been working on an film version of Cats.[15]

2000s

  • Spielberg wanted to depict Charles Lindbergh's life story, but abandoned it when he learnt the man was an anti-semite and fascist sympathizer.[17]
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Producer

Samuel Goldwyn, Jr., whose father produced the 1947 film adaptation, conceived the idea of doing a remake in 1994 with Jim Carrey in mind for the title role. Walt Disney Pictures was enthusiastic to purchase the remake rights, but Goldwyn instead chose New Line Cinema,[20] who held a positive working relationship with Carrey on Dumb and Dumber and The Mask.[21] The studio bought the rights in 1995 with the understanding that The Samuel Goldwyn Company would be involved in creative decisions.[22] Babaloo Mandel and Lowell Ganz turned in the first draft of the screenplay in July 1997. Ron Howard entered negotiations to direct that same month, as well as cover producing duties with Brian Grazer and Imagine Entertainment.[23] Howard and Imagine Entertainment eventually left the project in favor of EDtv,[20] and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty languished in development hell over the challenges of using a contemporary storyline.[21]

In May 1999 New Line hired Mask director Chuck Russell to rewrite the script and serve as Howard's replacement. Filming was set to begin in early-2000, but was pushed back.[21] Around this time, Peter Tolan worked on rewrites.[20] In May 2001 Goldwyn filed a lawsuit against New Line over breach of contract purposes. Goldwyn claimed that the studio extended their 1995 deal until May 2001, but then announced that it wanted to transfer the rights for the remake to another company and have Goldwyn surrender his creative input.[22] In November 2002 New Line was forced to revert the film rights back to Goldwyn, who won his lawsuit and took the property to Paramount Pictures.[22] During pre-production discussions between Paramount and DreamWorks on Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (which starred Carrey), Steven Spielberg, head of DreamWorks, rekindled interest in working with Carrey; the duo previously considered Meet the Parents, but the outing fell apart.[20] In May 2003 Spielberg agreed to direct,[20] and brought in DreamWorks to co-finance The Secret Life of Walter Mitty with Paramount.[24]

By November,

Mark Waters to direct LaGravenese's script for Walter Mitty,[28] but Carrey had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts.[27] He was replaced by Owen Wilson.[29]

Despite not having a final budget, Paramount scheduled a December 12, 2005

Mike Myers was attached to star in the title role. Jay Kogen was hired to write s new script that will be specifically tailored for Myers.[32]

References

  1. ^ Pamela McClintock (2009-08-27). "DreamWorks eyes 'Pirate' for Spielberg". Variety. Retrieved 2010-10-22.
  2. ^ a b c d e McBride, p.226—229
  3. ^ McBride, p.287
  4. ^ a b Ian Nathan (October 2008). "Quantum Leap". Empire. p. 84.
  5. ^ Jim Windolf (2007-12-02). "Q&A: Steven Spielberg". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 2008-09-21.
  6. ^ Barry Freiman (February 2006). "One-on-One Interview with Producer Ilya Salkind". Superman Homepage. Retrieved 2008-09-09.
  7. ^ McBride, p.324—326
  8. ^ McBride, p.362
  9. ^ McBride, p.327
  10. ^ McBride, p.391
  11. ^ McBride, p.409—410
  12. ^ McBride, p.400
  13. ^ McBride, p.28
  14. ^ McBride, p.446
  15. ^ McBride, p.412
  16. ^ Benjamin Svetkey (1998-06-05). "The Truman Pro". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2008-03-16. {{cite magazine}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  17. ^ Stax (2001-03-20). "Spielberg Sharpens the Hatchet for Lincoln?". IGN. Retrieved 2008-09-21.
  18. ^ Brian Linder (2000-08-10). "Spielberg Reels in Big Fish". IGN. Retrieved 2007-04-05.
  19. ISBN 0-571-22926-3. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help
    )
  20. ^ a b c d e Michael Fleming (2003-03-11). "Paramount giddy over 'Mitty'". Variety. Retrieved 2009-07-16.
  21. ^ a b c Michael Fleming (1999-05-25). "Russell to make 'Mitty'; Reiser's 'Mad' no more". Variety. Retrieved 2009-07-16.
  22. ^ a b c Janet Shprintz (2002-11-05). "Goldwyn settles suit on 'Mitty' NL rights". Variety. Retrieved 2009-07-16.
  23. ^ Staff (1997-07-11). "Howard mulls 'Mitty'". Variety. Retrieved 2009-07-16.
  24. ^ Dave McNary (2003-03-27). "2 studios split 'Mitty'". Variety. Retrieved 2009-07-16.
  25. ^ Dana Harris (2003-11-19). "Senator meets 'Stranger'". Variety. Retrieved 2009-07-16.
  26. ^ Brian Linder (2004-04-01). "Secret Life Changes". IGN. Retrieved 2009-07-16.
  27. ^ a b c Michael Fleming (2005-07-17). "Everyone had mitts on 'Mitty'". Variety. Retrieved 2009-07-16.
  28. ^ Dave McNary (2005-03-28). "Waters will man 'Mitty'". Variety. Retrieved 2009-07-16.
  29. ^ Dave McNary (2005-07-12). "Wilson's A-O-Kaye as new witty 'Mitty'". Variety. Retrieved 2009-07-16.
  30. ^ Staff (2005-10-31). "Mitty Moves". IGN. Retrieved 2009-07-18.
  31. ^ Dave McNary; Chris Gardner (2005-11-06). "Extreme Makeover: The Par edition". Variety. Retrieved 2009-07-16.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  32. ^ Michael Fleming (2007-05-22). "Mike Myers to star in 'Mitty' remake". Variety. Retrieved 2009-07-16.

Other

Spielberg's first important theatrical film was The Sugarland Express, made in 1974, a time when gifted auteurs like Scorsese, Altman, Coppola, De Palma and Malick ruled Hollywood. Their god was Orson Welles, who made the masterpiece Citizen Kane entirely without studio interference, and they too wanted to make the Great American Movie. But a year later, with Jaws, Spielberg changed the course of modern Hollywood history. Jaws was a hit of vast proportions, inspiring executives to go for the home run instead of the base hit. And it came out in the summer, a season the major studios had generally ceded to cheaper exploitation films. Within a few years, the Jaws model would inspire an industry in which budgets ran wild because the rewards seemed limitless, in which summer action pictures dominated the industry and in which the hottest young directors wanted to make the Great American Blockbuster.[1]

  1. ^ Roger Ebert (1998-06-08). "The Moviemaker: Steven Spielberg". Time. Retrieved 2010-10-24.
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