Steven Spielberg has had a busy few weeks while he’s been deciding what movies he wants to make in the future. Earlier this week he signed up to direct a currently untitled Cold War thriller, which will reunite him with Tom Hanks.

Now he’s lining up another movie, as THR reports he’s officially come onboard an adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The BFG.

The 1982 book is about a young girl who one night is snatched from her bed by a giant and taken to him faraway land. However it turns out the giant isn’t a bad guy – he’s a BFG, Big Friendly Giant – who blows dreams through children’s windows.

However the other giants are indeed bad and like nothing better than eating little kids – and they need to be stopped.

Melissa Mathison is writing the script, which bodes well considering she also wrote Spielberg’s E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial.

The Cold War movie will apparently shoot first, with The BFG coming afterwards.

Steven Spielberg has been attached to a few things since Lincoln, but nothing that’s so come together so far (Robopocalypse came close, but then got delayed). Now the bearded one has added another possibility, as Variety reports he has signed on to produce and direct the religious drama, The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara.

The film will reunite him with Lincoln and Munich screenwriter Tony Kushner, who is adapting David Kertzer book that tells the true story of a seven year old Italian-Jewish boy, who in 1858 was removed from his parents by the authority of the Papal States, who raised him as a Catholic.

He grew up to become a priest in the Augustinian order.

Kushner is apparently at the early stages of writing the script, so it’s not know if the movie will be Spielberg’s next project.

It’s possible he’ll still make Robopocalypse next, which just received a new rewrite from Steven Zaillian. The other main alternative is the historical drama Montezuma, although that project isn’t likely to be ready for production in the near future.

Steven Spielberg has made all sorts of movies, but he’s never made a full-on musical. He’s flirted with a few and included musical numbers in several of his films, but he’s never actually gone all the way with it. That may change though as Deadline reports that he’s interested in remaking West Side Story.

It’s very early days though, as all that’s happened so far is that Spielberg has expressed his interest and Fox, which owns the rights, has given him the okay to explore the idea.

If you’re going to make a musical, West Side Story is one of the best, but the 1961 movie version is an outright classic that won 10 Oscars and is remembered as one of the most impressive fusions of film, music and dance ever created. Even if you’re Steven Spielberg, that’s quite something to live up to.

The bearded one may have a particular idea of what he can bring to this retelling of Romeo & Juliet, which is set in New York and follows the romance between Maria and Tony, who are trapped between warring gangs. Leonard Bernstein wrote the music, Stephen Sondheim handled the lyrics and Arthur Laurents came up with the book.

It will probably never happen, but I’m kind of intrigued as to what Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story would look like.

After finishing Lincoln, Steven Spielberg announced he was going to make Robopocalypse, but despite the fact he owns his own studio and had the main cast in place, budget issues meant he decided to indefinitely delay the movie. Then he was going to shoot, American Sniper but he stepped away from the a few months ago.

Since then it hasn’t been clear what he would make next. Now we may have a hint as Deadline reports he’s mulling the movie Montezuma, based on a 50-year-old script by blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo (Spartacus). Writer Steve Zaillian (Schindler’s List) will produce, with Javier Bardem apparently interested in starring.

Montezuma has become of a legend in Hollywood as ‘one of the greatest films never made’. It was going to happen in 1965, but it was cancelled before it could go into production. The script is about epic legendary Aztec emperor Montezuma and his bloody conflict with Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés. Bardem would play the latter.

Spielberg hasn’t decided whether to make the movie yet, but if he does it’ll probably be his next movie.