Steven Soderbergh’s work ethic is so legendary that there’s a joke about it: “In the time it took me to say this, he made another movie.”
Since his feature-filmmaking debut 36 years ago with sex, lies and videotape, Soderbergh has has worked on 33 movies and eight TV series as a director and another 41 as a producer and been one of a handful of directors in Oscars history to be nominated for Best Picture and Director in the same calendar year (in 2001, for Erin Brockovich and Traffic; the latter won in both categories). This year is already shaping up to be a productivity all-timer. He’s released two films as director in seven weeks: the ghost story Presence, which opened in January, and Black Bag, an espionage drama about two married spies (Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender) that opened Friday. When I asked him a week ago what movie would be next, he said, “We just wrapped one on Thursday.” That would be The Christophers, “a dark comedy about the estranged children of a once-famous artist who hire a forger to complete his unfinished works so they can be discovered and sold after his death.” He hopes to premiere it this fall.
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