After 47 years, Steven Spielberg is finally making another UFO movie with help from the original Jurassic Park screenwriter
Apr. 17, 2024We don’t know anything else, but we want to
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Steven Spielberg is making a UFO movie for the first time in almost 50 years – and we’re stoked.
The filmmaker hasn’t made a proper UFO flick since 1977’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which cemented itself in pop culture history as one of the most influential alien pics of all time. Richard Dreyfuss starred as Roy Neary, an ordinary blue-collar worker from Indiana whose life turns upside down when he encounters a UFO.
The film was nominated for nine Academy Awards, taking home the Oscar for Best Cinematography and a Special Achievement Academy Award for Sound Effects Editing. It also gave us that infamous sculpting-a-mountain-out-of-mashed-potatoes-scene that was later parodied by Weird Al Yankovic in his 1989 comedy UHF (which is way more important than an Oscar in my opinion.)
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Lauren Milici is a Senior Entertainment Writer for GamesRadar+ currently based in the Midwest. She previously reported on breaking news for The Independent’s Indy100 and created TV and film listicles for Ranker. Her work has been published in Fandom, Nerdist, Paste Magazine, Vulture, PopSugar, Fangoria, and more.
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