translated from Spanish: Spielberg prepares a series of terror that can only be seen at night

Steven Spielberg was always a visionary who used technology in the service of audiovisual fiction and continues to innovate after more than forty years of career. It now joins the launch of Quibi, the first platform designed for the production of mobile and short-term content, which will be released in April 2020. The founder of this platform is Jeffrey Katzenberg, who created with the Spielberg himself the famous DreamWorks producer, responsible for successes like Shrek, Madagascar and how to Train Your dragon. His new Quibi project managed to raise more than $1 billion in investments, including industry heavyweights such as Warner, Lionsgate, NBC Universal and Disney.

Director Steven Spielberg and producer Jeffrey Katzenberg, partners and friends for over twenty years

In an event held in Canada for investors, Katzenberg announced that Steven Spielberg joined the platform with an original series that is writing specially to adapt to the format of Quibi. According to the announcement, it already has about half of episodes created for a story of between ten and twelve chapters.
He’s writing it himself. He hasn’t written anything in a while, so getting this is fantastic.

The series is being developed under the title “Spielberg’s After Dark” and has a peculiarity that was the idea of Spielberg himself: he wants only to be seen when it is night. As the platform will be available only for mobile devices, the challenge is to program it so that the cell phones can recognize the place and time that each user is in order for the series to be seen only after sunset. In this way, a countdown will appear on each phone marking the sunset to calculate the time until midnight in the place where the user is located. And after sunrise, the clock would turn on again and the series would disappear until the following night.

Spielberg wants to take advantage of all the possibilities offered by the platform to give a more terrifying effect to his new series

With this innovative concept, the series conceived by Steven Spielberg would be the first of these characteristics. Also added to the platform were other directors of the stature of Guillermo Del Toro, Sam Raimi and Steven Soderbergh, each with their own projects. The platform’s proposal is that its contents last a maximum of two and a half hours, divided in up to 15 weekly episodes of between 7 and 10 minutes each one. In this note:

Original source in Spanish