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Spielberg's Space Odyssey
Steven Spielberg is getting ready for his next close encounter.
Seemingly taking another page from the Stanley Kubrick playbook, the E.T. director is planning a multidimensional mind-bending space flick that sounds reminiscent of Kubrick's masterpiece, 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Spielberg, who famously followed through on Kubrick's plans for the 2000 sci-fi film A.I., has inked a deal with Paramount for the new project, according to Variety.
According to the trade, the untitled film tells the story of a group of space explorers who embark on a journey through a wormhole and enter another dimension. Using state-of-the-art special effects, Spielberg will draw on real-world, cutting-edge science based on Einstein's theory of relativity, namely the possibility for warping the space-time fabric via gravity waves and opening the door for time travel.
The story is based on a treatment by Caltech theoretical physicist Kip S. Thorne, one of the world's leading experts on relativity. It was brought to the Oscar-winning filmmaker's attention by producer Lynda Obst, a longtime friend of the scientist.
Variety reports that Spielberg was so enthralled by the idea he took his 89-year-old father, Arnold Spielberg, a retired engineer, to a Caltech workshop featuring Thorne and several of his colleagues.
While the filmmakers have a general concept in mind, a script for the ambitious space saga hasn't yet materialized and it will likely spend several years in development before Spielberg opens a portal in his own hectic schedule to shoot the film.
For now, Spielberg is taking a bit of a breather following last year's two-fer of War of the Worlds and Munich.
Aside from the space flick, he has two other movies in the pipeline that he plans to direct himself: the long-gestating fourth Indiana Jones adventure for Paramount and an Abraham Lincoln biopic starring Liam Neeson for Universal.
No word on which he'll start with.
While he sorts out his personal slate, Spielberg is also executive-producing Michael Bay's big-screen version of The Transformers, Clint Eastwood's highly anticipated World War II drama Flag of Our Fathers and the sci-fi thriller When Worlds Collide. He is also teaming up with Apprentice and Survivor mastermind Mark Burnett for a new reality series called On the Lot for Fox, which will give amateur filmmakers a shot at a development deal. And he's acting as a consultant with Electronic Arts to hatch three new original videogames that he may eventually make into movies.
If that isn't enough, he's also helping oversee DreamWorks' transition from NBC Universal to Paramount's parent company, Viacom. And last but not least, Spielberg is joining forces with renowned Chinese director Zhang Yimou to design the opening and closing ceremonies for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
With that schedule, he could use a good wormhole.
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