Whatever Spielberg's Mystery Sci-Fi Blockbuster Is, It's Got Emily Blunt

Name immoderate genre and chances are Emily Blunt has it connected her resume—horror, action, rom-com, thriller, mystery, musical, humanities drama—and not lone that, the movies she stars successful overwhelmingly thin to beryllium blockbusters. One arena she’s particularly succeeded successful is science fiction—and present the prima is joining 1 of sci-fi’s astir anticipated caller projects.

This quality comes from Deadline, and portion we don’t cognize overmuch astir said project, what we bash cognize is coagulated gold: it’s Steven Spielberg’s mysterious May 2026 release from Universal and Amblin, with a publication by Jurassic Park and War of the Worlds scribe David Koepp. The commercialized writes that “the task is described arsenic a two-hander, truthful Blunt would beryllium playing 1 of the leads.” When the merchandise day for the as-yet-unnamed movie was revealed past month, Variety described it arsenic “a caller archetypal lawsuit film,” and theorized that it could beryllium the UFO communicative the megawatt manager was known to beryllium moving on.

UFOs, you say? Blunt’s battled militaristic aliens successful Edge of Tomorrow, not to notation aliens with violently overdeveloped proceeding successful the Quiet Place movies. She is well-equipped to look immoderate benignant of penetration oregon adjacent brushwood the manager of E.T. the Extraterrestrial, Close Encounters of the Third King, and War of the Worlds (to sanction conscionable a few) tin propulsion astatine her.

With Blunt’s casting, you person to conjecture we’ll soon beryllium learning much astir Spielberg’s aboriginal summertime blockbuster. Are you excited for this archetypal large portion of news?

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