{"id":747500,"date":"2026-06-19T15:22:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T15:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/747500\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T15:22:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T15:22:19","slug":"the-team-behind-heretic-and-a-quiet-place-will-next-work-with-steven-spielberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/747500\/","title":{"rendered":"The Team Behind ‘Heretic’ and ‘A Quiet Place’ Will Next Work With Steven Spielberg"},"content":{"rendered":"

They invented a world with hyper-sensitive hearing<\/a> aliens, let us watch Kylo Ren fight a bunch of dinosaurs, and graced us with Hugh Grant as a creepy, philosophical puppet master<\/a>. Now, for their next trick, Scott Beck and Bryan Woods<\/a> will fly a bike across the moon.<\/p>\n

More specifically, the pair just signed with<\/a> Steven Spielberg\u2019s company, Amblin (whose logo is the \u2018E.T.\u2019 bike flying across the moon<\/a>), to write and direct an original, \u201chigh concept\u201d sci-fi story that\u2019ll be released by Universal. The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> broke the news, but unfortunately, there are no plot details beyond that.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis new project is thirty years in the making,\u201d the duo posted on X<\/a>. \u201cReally proud to bring this story to life alongside Mr. Spielberg and our heroes at Amblin and Universal. Never a dull day working in the dream factory. Hope to see you in theaters soon.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, though, when you think Amblin and sci-fi, you think about its founder\u2019s classics. Films like E.T., Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Jurassic Park, as well as his most recent film,<\/a> Disclosure Day. The company is also responsible for a very specific, all-ages type of film that came to define much of the 1980s and 1990s. Films like Back to the Future, The Goonies, Gremlins, Innerspace, and Men in Black. So, if Amblin buys a film from Beck and Woods, you get a very specific tone and vibe in your head.<\/p>\n

And frankly, Beck and Woods certainly have that type of film in them. Almost all of their films are originals, fun concepts, like the aforementioned A Quiet Place (which they wrote but didn\u2019t direct), 65, and Heretic (which they both wrote and directed). If Amblin is interested in one of those ideas, we have only the highest hopes.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll let you know when or if we learn more about this project, but for now, if you\u2019re wondering what those Quiet Place guys are working on, it\u2019s probably something with Steven Spielberg.<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They invented a world with hyper-sensitive hearing aliens, let us watch Kylo Ren fight a bunch of dinosaurs,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":747501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[267615,267186,49,48,75,337,267187,10780],"class_list":["post-747500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-amblin","tag-bryan-woods","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-scott-beck","tag-steven-spielberg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}