Steven Soderbergh is currently out on the promotional campaign for his new film Logan Lucky [read our reviews here and here], following which he’s set to make the jump to the small screen for the HBO project Mosaic.
The series was announced back in 2015 and is set to star Sharon Stone (Basic Instinct) and Garrett Hedlund (Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk), and during an interview with Film Comment Soderbergh has revealed that it will offer a “branching narrative” which allows viewers to experience the story from different perspectives.
“It’s a branching narrative piece. Branching narratives have been around forever, but technology now allows, I hope, for a more elegant, intuitive form of engagement than used to be possible. We spent a lot of time on how you touch this thing. I wanted to make sure that it was beautiful and simple, so that when the opportunity arises for you to decide whose perspective you want to follow, it feels organic and not like an interruption – like the thing is just stopping cold. So there was just a lot trial and error about how that would work. I’m really happy with it now. The question now is if a million people log on at the same time, will it crash?”
Mosaic will clock in at around seven-and-a-half hours in total, and will be available via a free app, with a traditional six-hour episodic version slated to air on HBO in January 2018.
Originally published August 26, 2017. Updated April 17, 2018.
