New Delhi, June 14 -- who has made 34 feature films and abandoned very few once he's committed to casting - it is a rare admission. Appearing on Amy Poehler's Good Hang podcast this week, Spielberg revealed that he came close to making a film about George and Ira Gershwin's creation of Porgy and Bess, had already cast Colman Domingo as Todd Duncan - the baritone who originated the role of Porgy in the opera's 1935 Broadway premiere - and then called the whole project off.

something that doesn't often happen when I'm that far down the line - but I had a kind of second thought about the project, and I decided not to continue making it."

The revelation lands at a particularly resonant moment. As The Eastern Herald reported on its opening w...