Famous movie producer Steven Spielberg has officially unveiled his newest memoir-film, The Fabelmans, at this year’s Toronto Film Festival.
The film debuted to a thunderous applause as it documents his life as a 75 year-old filmmaker through the lens of Sammy Fabelman. Spielberg wrote the film alongside Tony Kushner, and it’s mainly based off of his own life, opening with a young boy going to see his first movie at the theaters, The Greatest Show on Earth, with his mother giving him words of encouragement.
Spielberg held a stage event following the screening. He told the excited audience “it’s something obviously I’ve been thinking about for a long time. I didn’t really know when I was going to get around to this. It is not because I decided to retire and this is my swan song. Don’t believe any of that.”
Spielberg spoke about the movie back when he was making Lincoln alongside Kushner. Following the pandemic, Spielberg decided it was time to tell his full story.
“As things got worse and worse, I felt if I was going to leave anything behind, what was the thing that I really need to resolve and unpack?” the filmmaker stated.
His three sisters were also in the audience as well. “This film is for me a way of bringing my mom and dad back. And it also brought my sisters — Annie and Sue and Nancy — closer to me than I ever thought possible. And that was worth making the film for,” Spielberg said.
The film will release in NYC and LA on November eleventh, and a national release will come November 23rd. Its premier at the Toronto Film Festival followed Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery‘s screening. This was Spielberg’s first time actually premiering at a festival.
The movie, who’s runtime sits at two and a half hours, received a grand applause following its ending, and critics believe its set to be at the Academy Awards.
“Steven was generous about letting us into his life,” said Dano, whom Spielberg gave access to seeing his old photographs and home movies. “The goal was to capture a life lived.”
“It will take you to into a place of safety and right through safety is something unexpected and scary,” Kushner stated. “It happens over and over again in the movie.”
“I made all the behind-the-scenes stuff in this movie much better than the actual films I made when I was Sammy’s age. It was a great do-over,” Spielberg told reporters.
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