Steven Spielberg's next movie is his first Western

As the Polish two-time Oscar winner explains about his process in imagining the American West for the project, “We used to go to this region in the Sudeten Mountains, where it was just beautiful, rolling hills, looked like parts of Montana. The lay of the land, the snow on the ground, the fog.” Extolling the virtues of having foreign-born cinematographers in charge of iconic American genres, Kamiński states, “Those who shoot American movies tend to come from somewhere else, and we see these same things differently. That’s why there’s room in this profession for men and women from different countries who bring different aesthetics to American movies.”

That Spielberg is apparently tackling the Western genre for the first time in his 80s (Spielberg is currently 79) is certainly news. Spielberg himself spilled the beans on the Western project back in March, telling reporters at South By Southwest (with the exuberance of a guy who’d been dying to make a Western for a long time), “I can’t reveal anything right now, but I have something in development. And it kicks ass. There will be horses. There will be guns. There will be no tropes, I can tell you that. There’s going to be no stereotypes.” However, Kamiński’s recent quote reveals that work is actively underway on what will be the director’s first Western in a 55-year career.