Well it looks like Steven Soderbergh might be coming out of his theatrical retirement to work on a new movie project with Channing Tatum, which will revolve around a heist during a NASCAR-style race. According to a source close to THR, the new movie will be “Ocean’s Eleven but with hillbillies”.
Not much else is known as of yet however Michael Shannon (Man of Steel) has also been linked, although only Tatum has been confirmed to be involved right now.
Soderbergh’s last feature film project was Side Effects, released in 2013 and starring Rooney Mara, Channing Tatum, Jude Law and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Since then he’s been working in television and his HBO film Behind the Candelabra – starring Michael Douglas as Liberace – won two Golden Globes.
Soderbergh confirmed shortly before the release of Side Effects that he would be retiring from filmmaking indefinitely citing Hollywood’s horrible treatment towards directors as the main factor for his departure:
“The worst development in film-making – particularly in the last five years – is how badly directors are treated…It’s become absolutely horrible the way the people with the money decide they can fart in the kitchen, to put it bluntly. It’s not just studios – it’s who is financing a film. I guess I don’t understand the assumption that the director is presumptively wrong about what the audience wants or needs when they are the first audience, in a way. And probably got into making movies because of being in that audience.”
It’s worth noting that THR haven’t confirmed whether Soderbergh will be back in the directors chair or act only as a producer. Either way it’s great to have him back.
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Originally published February 4, 2016. Updated April 15, 2018.
