Eve Hewson is in early talks to star in Steven Spielberg‘s untitled event film, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
The actress most recently starred opposite Nicole Kidman and Dakota Fanning in Netflix’s limited series, The Perfect Couple. Her other credits include Bad Sisters, Flora and Son, The Knick, Enough Said and This Must Be The Place.
Spielberg’s film would also be a reunion for Hewson and the Oscar-winning filmmaker after they first worked together on his Bridge of Spies. The 2015 film, starring Tom Hanks, follows an American lawyer who is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court during the Cold War and then helps the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet-captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers.
Though little has been released about his upcoming project’s plot, it’s based on a story by Spielberg, with a screenplay by David Koepp (Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, War of the Worlds and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull). Kristi Macosko Krieger (The Fabelmans, West Side Story) will produce.
The untitled film, from Universal Pictures, is set to release wide on May 15, 2026.
Spielberg’s upcoming project also follows his 2022 semi-autobiographical film The Fabelmans, which earned seven Oscar nominations, including best picture, best original screenplay and best achievement in directing.
Hewson is repped by WME, Brillstein Entertainment Partners, Narrative and Sloane Offer Weber Dern.
