Steven Spielberg made The Fabelmans when he thought the world would end. It was the start of 2020 and the director suspected Covid-19 meant humankind’s final curtain (it may yet be, of course).
“I was terrified this was an end-of-days, extinction-level event,” he said. Little concentrates the mind like imminent apocalypse. So he came to a decision: “If I got the chance to make one more movie, it was going to be this story.”
