Steven Soderbergh’s nearly tackled “Death Becomes Her.”
The “sex, lies, and videotape” filmmaker informed Range that following his outbreak Sundance launching, he was approached to guide “Death Becomes Her” in 1992.
“I want to preface this by saying I hate it when people talk about things that they passed on. For whatever reason, I just feel like I am not convinced it’s good form to do that,” Soderbergh stated.
Soderbergh included of the manuscript, “I do remember reading it and immediately thinking it was very funny. And also immediately recognizing that this is so far beyond my capability. The technology they were using was intimidating. It was a hard ‘you got the wrong guy,’ is what it was.”
“Death Becomes Her” was guided by Robert Zemeckis, and starred Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn as competing immortals that contest a love passion (Bruce Willis). The movie was a ticket office hit, earning nearly $150 million versus its $55 million budget plan. A television film adjustment was reported in 2012, and the movie stimulated a Broadway program opening in 2024.
“There was no universe in which I could do it,” Soderbergh stated. “I knew you needed somebody with a Zemeckis-like technical facility to execute it.”
And “Death Becomes Her” isn’t the only legendary movie Soderbergh has actually ignored, as the “Kimi” supervisor junked a remake of “The Uninvited” and just recently introduced he will certainly no more belong to the revitalized “Ocean’s” franchise business.
“After we made the third movie, I felt like the series was very much concluded for me,” Soderbergh informed Range in January 2024. “When the studio approached me to see if I’d be involved in continuing the franchise, I told them no, because it just doesn’t feel like a move forward for me.”
“Ocean’s” star George Clooney validated there will certainly be a follow-up to “Ocean’s Thirteen,” and explained the upcoming film as a “Going in Style”- esque verdict. A different innovator movie is likewise in the jobs starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling.
Soderbergh included in Range that he is “chasing something else.” The supervisor likewise went back to Sundance with the thriller “Presence,” starring Lucy Liu.
