Emily Blunt would star in Steven Spielberg's UFO movie

Steven Spielberg continues to develop its announced original project on UFOsproduced by Amblin Entertainment and with Universal Pictures as distributor.

The most recent news reveals that Emily Blunt He is negotiating to assume the leading role. If the deal closes, it would mark Blunt and Spielberg's first project together (via Deadline).

The project is described as a story written for two actors, so Blunt would play one of the two leads.

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 movie”.

Other details about the plot, cast, filming date and official title have not been announced at this time.

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

Blunt has just finished a good season with Oppenheimer, for which she was nominated for an Oscar for the first time, as best supporting actress. Last April she released the action comedy in theaters The Fall Guy. Right now it is in the production of The Smashing Machine from A24 and director Benny Safdie. The actress has experience in the science fiction genre, with films such as Edge of Tomorrow, Looperand the franchise A Quiet Placewhere he had his encounters with alien beings.

Universal Pictures set the theatrical release of the UFO project for the May 15, 2026in the middle of the summer film 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 returns Spielberg to his crown as the king of blockbusters?