Disclosure Day is hitting theaters this summer, but director Steven Spielberg is already teasing a future project. While speaking at South by Southwest today, Spielberg revealed that he has a Western in development…and that it “kicks ass.” Collider‘s Ross Bonaime was on the scene.

During the SXSW keynote address, Spielberg discussed the possibility of alien life, made a dig at Timothée Chalamet‘s ill-advised knocks on opera and ballet, and also gave a quick tease of his next film, which promises to be a rip-roarin’ good time. Says Spielberg, “…can’t reveal anything right now, but I have a western 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.” He also hopes to shoot the film in Texas, which was red meat for SXSW‘s Austin audience. Spielberg has long endeavored to make a Western; it’s one of the few genres he hasn’t touched on in his directorial career, which now spans across six decades.

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Spielberg has long been interested in both the hopes and fears surrounding extraterrestrial life, as seen in his previous films Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, War of the Worlds, and even Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. However, for his first alien-based movie in almost two decades, he’s taken on a decidedly modern look at the material, leapfrogging off the disclosure of official government records of alleged alien contact. Emily Blunt will star as a Kansas City meteorologist who starts experience strange phenomena, and joins forces with a conspiracy theorist (Josh O’Connor) to learn more. The film also stars Colin Firth, Eve Hewson, Colman Domingo, and Wyatt Russell. It reunites Spielberg with three frequent collaborators: screenwriter David Koepp, cinematographer Janusz Kamiński, and composer John Williams.

While Spielberg has never directed a Western, he has served as the producer on a number of films in the genre, ranging from Back to the Future Part III to Cowboys and Aliens to An American Tail: Fievel Goes West. He also produced the 2005 TNT TV miniseries Into the West: the ambitious project followed two families, one white and one Native American, as they cross paths on the frontier in a period spanning from 1820 to 1890.

Steven Spielberg‘s mystery Western is in development.

via Collider