Having suggested that he’s now done with making feature films, director Steven Soderbergh’s ambitions seem to be heading in another direction. Well, one that may still keep him behind a camera that is. In a recent interview to promote his forthcoming male-stripper saga MAGIC MIKE, the HAYWIRE and OCEANS 11 helmer has suggested he may turn his attention to television.
American movie audiences now just don’t seem to be very interested in any kind of ambiguity or any kind of real complexity of character or narrative — I’m talking in large numbers, there are always some, but enough to make hits out of movies that have those qualities. I think those qualities are now being seen on television and that people who want to see stories that have those kinds of qualities are watching television
He is perhaps already in transition, after seeing his passion project BEHIND THE CANDELABRA, a film surrounding the turbulent latter life of Liberace, struggle to find finance and make it onto big-screen. Acclaimed cable network HBO has since picked up the project that will star Michael Douglas as the legendary, extravagant singer and Matt Damon as his younger gay lover. The problems surrounding his adaptation of classic 60s show THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. could also have contributed to his new direction.
Soderbergh still has the intense crime-drama THE BITTER PILL still to be released next year. The film is scheduled for 15th March 2013 and will star Rooney Mara, Jude Law, Catherine Zeta-Jones and current muse Channing Tatum. MAGIC MIKE hits cinemas 11th July.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
