Comments on: Will ‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.’ Be Steven Soderbergh’s Final Film Before Retirement?

By: Zee

Zee — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:24:13 +0000

Why don\’t the aesthetics of UNCLE befit 3D? It seems like it would be a big studio action movie.

By: actionman

actionman — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:24:13 +0000

this would be a major loss for the worldwide filmmaking community.

say it a\’int so, joe…

By: Edward Davis

Edward Davis — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:24:13 +0000

Everyone missed it I guess, but we reported back a few months ago that \”The Last Time I Saw Michael Gregg\” was not a film that was actually coming out and the Aussie press made too much of it. Soderbergh shot it as an experiment with actors, but it was never intended for release. So unless someone hears otherwise, scratch it off your list.

By: RNL

RNL — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:24:13 +0000

There\’s also \”The Last Time I Saw Michael Gregg\”, the \’improv\’ film he shot while directing that play in Australia earlier this year.

By: Christopher Bell

Christopher Bell — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:24:13 +0000

I agree with his retirement being merely a holiday from film, although I feel like it\’s more away from the studio system than from the entire art itself. I know \”Bubble\” and \”Girlfriend Experience\” were part of a deal with HDNet, a deal which stipulates he would do something like 9 or 10 movies. I dunno if he would back away from something like that, plus, those small projects with non-actors seem to be some of his favorites from their respective interviews… unless I\’m reading too much into\’em.

By: Nathaniel Drake Carlson

Nathaniel Drake Carlson — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:24:13 +0000

Originally, he planned to make an adaptation of William Brinkley\’s The Last Ship as his follow up to sex, lies. Clearly that didn\’t happen. And I know he would have liked to have gotten a crack at the eternally elusive Edward Ford. But that was never going to happen either. Personally, I just always hoped he would reunite with Spader at least once. Their collaboration remains their mutual best in my opinion

By: Ken

Ken — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:24:13 +0000

I used to think he was \”overrated\” (hate that term, so lazy). I thought Out of Sight and Traffic were great and Sex, Lies, and Videotape was pretty good for a first film. The Limey was also decent. It wasn\’t until Che and The Informant! when I started to really like him as a filmmaker. His next group of projects sound really interesting too. So I guess that\’s why I\’m so disappointed that he\’s retiring because I only recently started to get into him as a filmmaker.

By: cirkusfolk

cirkusfolk — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:24:13 +0000

Good riddance! I can\’t think of a more overrated director. His best film is Out of Sight.

By: rodie

rodie — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:24:13 +0000

I\’ve interviewed Soderbergh before, pretty extensively. It seems he gets burned out (no kidding he works so much) every 10 years or so. I suspect he is being genuine about this retirement thing. But I highly doubt that his retirement will be permanent.

My guess would be that he takes 5-6 years off, paints, travels, does whatever, then slowly starts developing something new, be it an art film, a low-budget indie or an interesting studio project. Then he\’ll become like Malick used to be or Kubrick became in his later years and only put out a movie every 7-8 years or so.

By: Edward Davis

Edward Davis — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:24:13 +0000

Cleo is sadly, probably dead. It would have quenched 2 things he wants to do before retirement 3D and a musical, all in one obviously. He was gonna try 3D for Contagion and then the RED tests went poorly and he decided against it (too bad the new RED EPIC cameras seem to be fine for 3D).

I would think doing a musical in this climate is not gonna happen and the aesthetics of UNCLE are NOT befitting of 3D at all, so yeah, he might just have to leave the game without tackling those two elements. I would guess if anything could draw him back it would be either one of those 2 elements.

And Contagion will have a bit of a horror quality to it (though of the very realistic kind) if the script was any indication.

By: Ken

Ken — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:24:13 +0000

I find this to be disappointing too. A lot of directors don\’t even hit their stride until past 50… Hitchcock, Bunuel, Almodovar, Eastwood (obviously).

You know how you did a piece on projects that fell through for Fincher? Is there anything like that for Soderbergh or has done pretty much everything he\’s wanted to do?

By: Hayden Maxwell

Hayden Maxwell — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:24:13 +0000

The man can not back away before making Cleo. He can\’t.