Steven Spielberg is Getting His Own HBO Documentary

There aren’t many filmmakers who have had the same artistic and cultural impact as Steven Spielberg. The director of JawsRaiders of the Lost ArkE.T. The Extra-TerrestrialJurassic ParkSchindler’s List and Saving Private Ryan has enjoyed nearly unparalleled success in the entertainment industry, winning awards, changing lives, and permanently altering the way movies are made and released.

It was only a matter of time before the life and career of Steven Spielberg would become the subject of a high-profile documentary, and HBO apparently decided that the time is nigh. Spielberg is heading to the cable network on October 7, 2017, and will also be made available on their various streaming platforms, like HBO GO and HBO NOW (via Coming Soon).

Spielberg comes courtesy of director and producer Susan Lacy, who has won 14 Emmy Awards for her work on American Masters, in episodes that explored the life and career of artists like Lillian Gish, Judy Garland and Alfred Hitchcock. She has completed over 80 interviews while producing Spielberg, a film that will feature conversations with Steven Spielberg’s family, friends, and co-workers, as well as behind-the-scenes footage from his classic films.

American actor Harrison Ford and director Steven Spielberg on the set of “Raiders of the Lost Ark”. (Photo by Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images)

Interview subjects for Spielberg include J.J. Abrams, Christian Bale, Drew Barrymore, Cate Blanchett, Francis Ford Coppola, Daniel Craig, Daniel Day-Lewis, Brian de Palma, Laura Dern, Leonardo DiCaprio, Richard Dreyfuss, Ralph Fiennes, Harrison Ford, David Geffen, Tom Hanks, Dustin Hoffman, Holly Hunter, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Ben Kingsley, Kathleen Kennedy, George Lucas, Liam Neeson, Martin Scorsese, Oprah Winfrey and Robert Zemeckis, to name a few. It’s an impressive list of names, and only serves to highlight the enormous reach that Spielberg has had over the course of his long and storied career.

Don’t let this exhaustive career retrospective fool you. Steven Spielberg is 70 years old and still as productive as ever. His next feature film, the historical drama The Papers, is due in theaters on December 22, 2017, and his ambitious science-fiction adventure thriller Ready Player One, based on the bestselling novel by Ernest Cline, arrives in theaters just a few months later, on March 30, 2018.

 

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William Bibbiani (everyone calls him ‘Bibbs’) is Crave’s film content editor and critic. You can hear him every week on The B-Movies Podcast and Canceled Too Soon, and watch him on the weekly YouTube series What the Flick. Follow his rantings on Twitter at @WilliamBibbiani.

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