Colin Firth in talks to join Steven Spielberg's UFO project

Last April, the exciting project he is working on was revealed Steven Spielberg. This is a original project on UFOsproduced by Amblin Entertainment and distributed by Universal Pictures.

The latest news reveals via Deadline that Colin Firth (The King’s Speech) is in early negotiations to take on one of the lead roles. Firth would join the previously announced lead role, Emily Blunt (Oppenheimer, A Quiet Place).

• This would mark the first collaboration between Firth and Spielberg, and the first between Blunt and Spielberg.

The project is described as a story written for two actors. It is based on an original idea by Spielberg, and a script by David Kopp.

Koepp has written the scripts for Spielberg films such as Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, War of the Worlds, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. He will also write the script for the reboot that is being prepared Jurassic World.

Universal Pictures describes the film as “new original event film”.

Other details about the plot, filming date and official title have not yet been announced.

The UFO film will mark Spielberg's return to science fiction, a genre tackled by the director after the release of the iconic Jaws (1975), with the acclaimed Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) y E.T. (1982). Decades later he made A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), War of the Worlds (2005), y Ready Player One (2018).

Firth won the Oscar for Best Actor for The King's Speech, and has been part of other film projects such as the franchises Kingsman y Bridget Jones, 1917, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, Love Actually, The English Patientamong others. On television, she appeared in the HBO limited series, The Staircasefor which he was nominated for an Emmy. He recently completed filming for the series Lockerbie y Young Sherlock.

Universal Pictures has set the UFO project's theatrical release for May 15, 2026in the middle of the summer movie season, or summer blockbusters, a title coined by film connoisseurs precisely with the releases of Spielberg films such as Jaws y Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Will this be the film that restores Spielberg's crown as king of blockbusters?