The joke about Steven Soderbergh being the most productive, retired filmmaker is getting a bit old. In the last 6 months, the director has released “Logan Lucky,” the HBO series/phone app “Mosaic, and “Unsane.” Not only that, but he’s currently working on his next iPhone film titled “High Flying Bird,” which knowing the director, will be released in short order, as well. So yeah, he’s not retired.
Keeping with that train of thought, recently in an article by the South China Morning Post, we noticed that Soderbergh is still not retired and there’s a new, new project from the filmmaker. According to the report, Steven Soderbergh is teaming up with semi-regular collaborator, writer Lem Dobbs, yet again, for an untitled six-part series. Not much else is known about the project, but it’s exciting nonetheless, as Dobbs is always a writer to keep your eye on.
The pair of Soderbergh and Dobbs have previously worked on three films together over the last two-and-a-half decades, starting with 1991’s mystery-thriller film “Kafka.” Since then, they have reteamed on films that are about a decade apart with “The Limey” and 2011’s “Haywire.” It stands to reason that it’s about time for the two to work together again. Each of their previous three films have received positive critical reviews but have never been breakout hits. Perhaps, a change of venue, like moving to the small screen, is what the duo needs to reach a mass audience.
Since “Haywire,” Lem Dobbs has written a couple other films. First, in 2012, he wrote the film “The Company You Keep,” which was directed by Robert Redford. And this year sees the release of the long-awaited John Gotti biopic, aptly titled “Gotti,” starring John Travolta.
Soderbergh, as we mentioned above is consistently busy. He’s currently busting out the iPhones again for “High Flying Bird,” which stars Andre Holland, Zazie Beetz, and Kyle MacLachlan, and tells the story of a rookie basketball player and his agent who get involved in a controversial business opportunity during an NBA lockout.
Normally, we’d say that any six-part series would take a while to be in development, but we’re talking about Soderbergh, so this could be out by next week. However, as of now, there’s no network, release date, or premise for the series, that is known.