They invented a world with hyper-sensitive hearing aliens, let us watch Kylo Ren fight a bunch of dinosaurs, and graced us with Hugh Grant as a creepy, philosophical puppet master. Now, for their next trick, Scott Beck and Bryan Woods will fly a bike across the moon.
More specifically, the pair just signed with Steven Spielberg’s company, Amblin (whose logo is the ‘E.T.’ bike flying across the moon), to write and direct an original, “high concept” sci-fi story that’ll be released by Universal. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news, but unfortunately, there are no plot details beyond that.
“This new project is thirty years in the making,” the duo posted on X. “Really proud to bring this story to life alongside Mr. Spielberg and our heroes at Amblin and Universal. Never a dull day working in the dream factory. Hope to see you in theaters soon.”
Of course, though, when you think Amblin and sci-fi, you think about its founder’s classics. Films like E.T., Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Jurassic Park, as well as his most recent film, Disclosure Day. The company is also responsible for a very specific, all-ages type of film that came to define much of the 1980s and 1990s. Films like Back to the Future, The Goonies, Gremlins, Innerspace, and Men in Black. So, if Amblin buys a film from Beck and Woods, you get a very specific tone and vibe in your head.
And frankly, Beck and Woods certainly have that type of film in them. Almost all of their films are originals, fun concepts, like the aforementioned A Quiet Place (which they wrote but didn’t direct), 65, and Heretic (which they both wrote and directed). If Amblin is interested in one of those ideas, we have only the highest hopes.
We’ll let you know when or if we learn more about this project, but for now, if you’re wondering what those Quiet Place guys are working on, it’s probably something with Steven Spielberg.
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