He's enjoying some healthy success at the box office with Ready Player One (along with becoming the first filmmaker to cross $10 billion in terms of his movies' earnings), and Steven Spielberg is, as always, juggling a hefty list of potential new projects to direct. He's added another, setting up an adaptation of DC Comics' Blackhawk.
Regular collaborator David Koepp is on to write the script for the film, which will follow the adventures of an international squadron of pilots battling the Nazis (and other nasties) in the skies of World War II. Co-created by comic book legend Will Eisner, along with Bob Powell and Chuck Cuidera, the title debuted in 1941's Military Comics No.1, published by Quality Comics (later bought by DC) and was one of the biggest sellers in the 1940s.
The film is set up at Spielberg's Amblin company and Warner Bros. (which produced Ready Player One and oversees the DCEU), with Spielberg considering it as one of the movies he'll make after Indiana Jones 5, headed for a 2019 shoot. While Blackhawk is a DC title, it seems unlikely to link to the wider DECU, though given her long history, there's always a chance for a cameo from Wonder Woman, we suppose. Spielberg is a huge get for the universe, and follows on from today's announcement of Cathy Yan as the first Asian-American woman to direct a major studio blockbuster.
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