Spielberg Announces 2 New Projects

Sat., March 18, 2000

The Hollywood Reporter

Steven Spielberg will next direct “A.I.,” the long-in-the-works apocalyptic project about robots who possess artificial intelligence that the late Stanley Kubrick was planning to direct. The Warner Bros.-DreamWorks project, being written by Spielberg, has been slated to start production July 10 with plans for a summer 2001 release.

Spielberg then plans to segue in April 2001 to direct Tom Cruise in the science-fiction thriller “Minority Report.” A release date for the film has not been determined.

The announcement of Spielberg’s next two projects ends more than a year of speculation as to what the two-time Oscar winner would direct as a follow-up to 1998’s “Saving Private Ryan.” Spielberg still has on his plate the Japanese period piece “Memoirs of a Geisha.”

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