Challengers star Josh O’Connor will star in Steven Spielberg’s mysterious, as-yet-untitled feature film for Universal Pictures. He joins Emily Blunt, Colman Domingo, Colin Firth and Eve Hewson on the project.

All we know thus far about this feature is that it has sci-fi elements and marks Spielberg’s first ‘tentpole’ since directing Ready Player One in 2018. It is based on a story by the filmmaker, with a screenplay by long-time collaborator David Koepp, whose previous work with Spielberg includes the scripts for Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, War of the Worlds, and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

The film also reunites Spielberg with The Fabelmans and West Side Story collaborator Kristie Macosko Krieger, who will be producing.

Josh O’Connor was most recently seen in the Luca Guadagnino tennis drama Challengers, starring opposite Zendaya and Mike Faist, a role which has put him in the awards mix these coming months. He is currently in production for Kelly Reichardt’s art heist drama The Mastermind, and has signed on to star in Rian Johnson’s upcoming Netflix murder mystery, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery.

Universal has set a May 15th, 2026 cinema release date for the upcoming film.