The answer is yes — and no. Hereafter screenwriter Peter Morgan told Deadline that he took a meeting with Steven Spielberg “and went to the Universal lot for a meeting at 1 o’clock, and I went into the boardroom, and then an assistant came in and drew the curtains and said Mr. Spielberg is taken to have his meetings in the dark and she turned all the lights off.” Before a lot of crazy rumors start flying, let me clear up any confusion: ”It’s a slightly embellished tale,” an insider tells me. “The conference room has a huge window. Sometimes we close the drapes when the sun streams in. The meeting did not take place in the dark.”
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On the other hand, now I want to see a Spielberg movie called MEETINGS IN THE DARK, all about alienation in modern society and people making connections without communication, and like that. Starring Gabriel Byrne, Annette Bening and Mary-Louise Parker.
Thank god you cleared that up. We were all EXTREMELY worried.
He’s been closing the shades in that conference room because of the sun since 1983. This story was almost 30 years in the making, even longer than Tin Tin. Nice work.