Steven Spielberg eyes new movie clear of ‘stereotypes’

Steven Spielberg just revealed that his next movie will be a Western with "no stereotypes".

The 79-year-old filmmaker has teased the project will have "horses and guns" but he is trying to steer away from other conventions and "tropes" typically associated with the genre, though he didn't reveal any plot details.

Speaking to The Big Picture's Sean Fennessey at SXSW in Austin, Texas, when asked of his upcoming film, he replied: "Well, I'm developing a Western.

"And it's gonna have horses. There will be guns,” Spielberg added.

He further mentioned, "But there'll be no tropes, I can just tell you that. There are gonna be no stereotypes, no tropes."

During the interview, Spielberg also revealed that he wanted to make Close Encounters of the Third Kind long before his breakthrough movie Jaws, but studios had no interest because they thought it was a "completely crazy fantasy film."

“Nobody would let me make Close Encounters because it was on the fringes of science and mythology. So, no one really got it,” he remembered.

The 79-year-old explained: “When I said, ‘I want to make a UFO movie,’ everybody thought, well, you want to make a movie about the National Enquirer. You want to make a movie about crackpot reporting of things that aren’t really occurring, a completely crazy fantasy film about something that isn’t happening.”

"[After Jaws,] everybody came to me and said, ‘You have an old diary? We’ll shoot anything you have.’ I mean, it was great,” Steven Spielberg concluded.