Steven Spielberg, Javier Bardem, Steve Zaillian Circle Montezuma-Cortez Epic

By Mike Fleming Jr., Deadline Hollywood

EXCLUSIVE: One of the most compelling movie questions coming into 2014 is, what film will Steven Spielbergdirect? I don’t know if this is next or far down the line, but here is a tantalizing possibility: I’m told that he has his sights on Montezuma, an epic tale of the kinship and ultimately the bloody collision between Montezuma and Cortez as the latter led the Spanish infiltration into Mexico. I’ve heard that Javier Bardem has sparked to playing the Spanish explorer Hernando Cortez, and that the catalyst here is a nearly 50-year old script by Dalton Trumbo that is being rewritten by Steve Zaillian, who teamed with Spielberg on the Oscar-winning Schindler’s List.

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