Director Steven Spielberg said last year that he has finally joined the western genre, after saying he had “avoided it for decades.”
During the SXSW keynote, host Sean Fennessy asked the director if he had any plans to make a Western. “I can’t reveal anything right now, but there are things in development,” Spielberg said. “And that’s terrible.”
Director Spielberg also said he wanted to shoot the movie in Texas. However, SXSW is in Austin, so that may have been a wink to the audience. When pressed for further details, he added, “There will be horses. There will be guns. There will be no metaphors, I can tell you. There will be no stereotypes.”
Much of the conversation revolved around Spielberg’s thoughts on extraterrestrials and his upcoming UFO film, Disclosure Day. When Fennessy brought up a recent podcast in which Barack Obama confidently said aliens were real, Spielberg laughed.
“When President Obama made that comment, I thought, ‘Oh my God, this is perfect for Disclosure Day.’ This is amazing,” he said. “And then two days later he retracted his comments and said that what he believes in is life in the universe. Of course everyone should believe that, because no one should think that we are the only intelligent civilization in the entire universe.”
Speaking about UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon, the official term for UFO), Spielberg said, “Everyone here has read about this and watched a ton of documentaries about this going back to 2018. I don’t know any more than you do, but I have a very strong suspicion that we’re not alone on this planet right now.”
