This week, we shared an interview with Steven Spielberg in which he talks about a need for more women making big Hollywood movies. And now today we get news that he's found one.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, he and his Jurassic World director, Colin Trevorrow, plus X-Men franchise writer-producer Simon Kinberg are joining together with Emily Carmichael for her feature debut.
For Amblin Pictures, Carmichael will write and direct something called Powerhouse, which stems from a concept by Trevorrow. While nothing is known about its plot, we can assume that it will have a fantasy element if they've picked the filmmaker based on her award-winning shorts. One of them, 2011's The Hunter and the Swan Discuss Their Meeting, can be watched here for a taste of her work:
Although there are not a lot of big visuals in that one, the film does showcase a great sense of humor, especially about romance. Another of her shorts, which competed at SXSW a while back, similarly involves a fairy-tale character visiting New York City. Watch that plus her video game-inspired animated film RPG OKC below. Her latest, Stryker, is more sci-fi, and you can see the trailer for it here.
Trevorrow, who was similarly plucked from an indie-geek movie background, says Carmichael "is the next great writer-director of the kind of movies I love." And Amblin production head Holly Bario claims Trevorrow's story "has all the signature qualities of an Amblin film."
What does that mean? Here's what Amblin's Kristie Macosko Krieger told us earlier this year:
Amblin was an amazing production company that made amazing movies. Those are the types of films we want to make.' They are family films. They're four quadrant with something for everybody, whether it's Goonies or Gremlins or American Tail or Back to the Future... every movie we did in the '80s and '90s. We are going back to that. We want to tell stories that feel Amblin-like.
