BERLIN:
Director Steven Spielberg, who picked up a lifetime achievement award at the Berlin Film Festival, said that the prospect of making new films continued to excite him at 76, revealing new details. his planned HBO series.
As a director, his credits include some of the highest-grossing and best-loved works in history, including ET the Extra-Terrestrial and Chinjust completed two films back: the semi-autobiographical The Fabelmans and Stories in the Westa version of the classic Broadway musical.
“Whatever gripped me as a child, that’s the same feeling I’ve held for years afterward,” he told reporters on Tuesday. “When I find a book or a script or come up with an original idea that I think will make a good film: that joy… is above all.”
Spielberg, saying “he likes to work and needs to work”, is finishing a script left by his friend Stanley Kubrick when he died in 1999.
“We are putting together a major production for HBO based on Stanley’s original script Napoleon,” he said. “It’s a seven-part limited series.”
Reflecting on the last two years of filmmaking, Spielberg said the disease made him revisit his childhood. The Fabelmans.
“My mother used to say: ‘I have given you many good things. When are you going to use them?'” he said. “The fear I felt about the disease gave me the courage to tell my own story.”
Spielberg, known for his accessible, compelling films, advised filmmakers to start with the story.
“If you want to be a movie model, book first,” he said. “Because it’s the stories that will get the audience to pay attention to you, not the pictures.
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