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Steven Spielberg is developing a western after years of thinking about it, and he promises it will have “no tropes”
Steven Spielberg is preparing to film a western in Texas, and promises it will “kick ass”
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Steven Spielberg has made movies about dinosaurs, aliens, explorers, war, video games, and romance. However, one of his biggest ambitions has been to do a western, but he’s never had the chance. That’s about to change.
“I want to make a western. I want to shoot it in Texas,” Steven Spielberg says during an interview with The Big Picture’s Sean Fennessey. “Well, I can’t reveal anything right now, but I have something in development right now. And it kicks ass.”
So, what kind of ass? Spielberg continued, “I’m developing a western, and it’s going to have - there will be guns. But there will be no tropes. I can just tell you that. There are going to be no stereotypes, no tropes.”
Spielberg has long spoken about his desire to make a western, including in a 2021 interview promoting his West Side Story remake where he said, "I was asked that question [of what he hasn't worked on] over the last 40 years of my career, if not longer, and I always say, 'A musical is the one thing I haven’t done.' The thing I neglected to say is the one genre I haven’t really tackled yet is the Western... So who knows? Maybe I’ll be putting on spurs someday. Who knows?"
Five years later, and apparently we all know.
No word yet on a production timeline. Plus, Spielberg will be busy for the next few months promoting his next film Disclosure Day, which hits theaters June 12. Still, a Spielberg directed western has the potential to be amazing... and well worth the long wait.
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