Seth Rogen plays Steven Spielberg’s favorite uncle

Seth Rogen will play Steven Spielberg’s “favorite uncle” in the director’s upcoming semi-biographical film, which is loosely based on Spielberg’s childhood when he grew up in Arizona. According to Deadline, Rogen was typed around the beloved Spielberg’s beloved uncle in the untitled film. He joins the cast alongside Michelle Williams, who is apparently on board to play a character inspired by Spielberg’s mother. It is also said that casting is underway for several of the different children’s roles, one of which ‘will play the role inspired by the young storyteller’.Since the story is very personal to Spielberg, the well-known filmmaker is taking part in screenwriting duties for the first time in 20 years (with AI Artificial Intelligence in 2001 the last time he wrote a screenplay for a feature film). Spielberg collaborated on this new screenplay with Tony Kushner, which he previously collaborated on with Munich, Lincoln, and his upcoming remake of West Side Story. Spielberg and Kushner also serve as producers with Kristie Macosko Krieger, who is another collaborator of Spielberg’s. After starting as a co-producer at Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in 2008 before producing such as The Bridge of Spies in 2015 and The Post in 2015, both of which received the Oscars for Best Picture.

Spielberg is one of the most powerful and influential people who has ever worked in Hollywood. The famed director gained fame in the seventies and helped invent the modern trailer with films such as Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, and he has mostly been in the top of the game ever since .

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