Director Steven Spielberg is set to direct his first film in the western genre. His longtime cinematographer, Janusz Kaminski, revealed this in an interview he gave upon receiving an award at the Camerimage International Film Festival. According to Kaminski, Spielberg expects to begin filming the picture, which does not yet have a title, in 2027.
Janusz Kaminski, who has shot more than twenty films with Spielberg over thirty years of collaboration, shared that he is already envisioning the landscapes of the future western. He said that he recalls childhood trips to the Sudeten Mountains in Poland.
There are incredibly beautiful rolling hills there, reminiscent of Montana. The terrain, the snow, the fog.
— Janusz Kaminski
What Spielberg Himself Said About the Western
Steven Spielberg himself mentioned that he was working on a western in March 2026 at the SXSW festival. At the time, he promised that the film would have horses and that the story would avoid genre clichés. The western has long influenced the director's work, but he has not yet made a full-fledged film in this genre. The closest Spielberg came to a western was in the 1989 film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, which had certain elements of the genre.
Steven Spielberg will turn 80 in December 2026. A year earlier, he stated that he had no plans to retire.
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