Steven Spielberg, is an American director, producer, and screenwriter who is considered one of the founding pioneers of the New Hollywood era, who did he co-write the unfinished film Slipstream with?
Slipstream (unfinished film) Slipstream is a film about bicycle racers directed and written by Steven Spielberg and Roger Ernest that went unfinished. Ernest later appeared in Spielberg's "The Sugarland Express" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind". "Slipstream" also co-starred Tony Bill, who was already an established actor, and Jim Baxes, who went on to co-star in 1975 in the TV show "SWAT" under the stage name James Coleman.
1980s in film The decade of the 1980s in Western Cinema saw the return of studio-driven pictures, coming from the filmmaker-driven New Hollywood era of the 1970s. The period was when "high concept" films gained popularity, where movies were to be easily marketable and understandable, and, therefore, they had short cinematic plots that could be summarized in one or two sentences. The modern Hollywood blockbuster is the most popular film format from the 1980s. Producer Don Simpson is usually credited with the creation of the high-concept picture of the modern Hollywood blockbuster.