After the Terna performance at the box office of his latest spying thriller in mid-Budget, “Black Bag”, the Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh is considering his next move.
The director behind acclaimed films like “Traffic”, “Erin Brockovich”, “Out of Sight”, and the franchise “Ocean’s Eleven” has made almost all types of imaginable films, but he has always felt likely to make a slightly budgetary drama. But the performance of “Black Bag”, which brought in $ 37 million with a budget of $ 44 million, has reconsidered the filmmaker in which he joined the landscape of today’s creation.
“The people we needed to go out do not go out,” Soderbergh said to Business Insider Box-Office numbers “Black Bag”. “And unfortunately, it is impossible to really know why.”
Michael Fassbender in “Black Bag”. Development features
“My concern is that the rest of the industry examines this result and says” that is why we do not make films in this budgetary range for this public, because they do not come “,” he continued. “And it is unfortunate, because it is the kind of film that I made all my career. This common ground, that we do not all want to admit disappears, seems to really disappear.”
The fact that a sexy spying thriller with Cate Blanchett, Michael Fassbender and Pierce Brosnan Fresh certified on Rotten Tomatoes could not attract an audience is particularly confusing to Soderbergh.
“I mean, it is the best evaluated film I have ever made in my career, and we have six beautiful people, and they all made each advertisement that we asked them to make, and that is the result,” he said. “It is therefore frustrating.”
When he was asked if he would never come back to make epic films like “Che” of 2008, his biopic with two films with Benicio Del Toro as a revolutionary Che Guevara, Soderbergh was not against, but he had a warning.
Benicio Del Toro in “Che”. IFC movies
“It must really be something that deserves this kind of treatment and does not feel like an Oscar bait,” he said.
Soderbergh said he currently had nothing in the work he would characterize as an epic and explained why.
“This requires an aspect of the grandiosity gene; you must think of you in a way to want to go out and do these things. It is not my default mode,” he said. “I have to exhaust myself because I don’t have that kind of sense of my place.”
However, he likes to make epic films when it is the right decision. This has even led to the creation of one of its most popular television series.
“If I had not done” che “, I don’t think I would have done” The Knick “”, which, I think, is the last epic thing I have done, “said Soderbergh about his famous Cinemax 2014 series with Clive Owen as a surgeon who pushes the limits of medicine in 1900 with New York.
“‘Che’ was good for me in this sense. But knowing what enters there, it must be something that I really feel electrified, and these are difficult to find,” he continued. “So you have to launch Timothee Chalamet.”
“Black Bag” will be available to broadcast on Peacock from May 2.
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