Focus Features has actually won the public auction for Steven Soderbergh spy thriller bundle “Black Bag,” which has Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender affixed to star, according to an expert with expertise of the job.
Steven Soderbergh is readied to guide the movie this summertime in Europe, functioning from a manuscript by David Koepp. Story information concerning the job are being maintained under covers.
Manufacturers on “Black Bag” are Casey Silver and Greg Jacobs.
This notes the 2nd job today that Soderbergh and Koepp have actually established with each other, adhering to the sale of their Sundance ghost tale “Presence” to Neon.
Soderbergh stated the concept for “Presence” really appeared of his persistence that first-person virtual reality narration can never ever function.
“I had real questions about the choice that was at the center of this, because I’ve been very vocal about the fact that [first] person POV VR doesn’t work, is never going to work as a narrative,” Soderbergh stated throughout a Q&A after the movie’s best testing at the Collection cinema. “Nobody wants this thing on their head. They want to see a reverse angle of the protagonist with an emotion on their face experiencing the thing. I’ve been beating this drum for a long time – it’s never going to work.”
Soderbergh proceeded, “The only way to do it was you never turn around. It was really fun because there was no other plan. That’s it. You live or die by that.”
The bargain for “Black Bag” was agented by CAA and by Michael Sugar’s Sugar23.
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