For the next year or so, you won’t be able to turn around without bumping into Steven Spielberg. The legendary director is gearing up for Oscar season with “The Papers,” and next year he goes blockbuster with “Ready Player One.” If that’s not enough, the filmmaker will also be the subject of a new documentary, simply titled “Spielberg,” that’s hitting HBO in the fall.
J.J. Abrams, Christian Bale, Drew Barrymore, Cate Blanchett, Francis Ford Coppola, Daniel Craig, Daniel Day-Lewis, Brian de Palma, Laura Dern, Leonardo DiCaprio, Richard Dreyfuss, Ralph Fiennes, Harrison Ford, David Geffen, Tom Hanks, Dustin Hoffman, Holly Hunter, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Ben Kingsley, Kathleen Kennedy, George Lucas, Liam Neeson, Martin Scorsese, Oprah Winfrey and Robert Zemeckis are just some of the 80 plus people director Susan Lacy (“American Masters”) interviewed for the film.
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Leading it all however is Spielberg himself, who sat down for extensive interviews with Lacy, with the doc promising to find the director opening up about his bittersweet childhood and lifelong obsession with moviemaking, his precocious early work as a TV “wunderkind,” his rise to fame through an incredible string of blockbusters, his later forays into more serious dramatic films, and the personal and professional relationships he’s cultivated through the years. All told, this is going to be must watch stuff.
“Spielberg” will air on HBO on October 7th.