Steven Soderbergh has written a sequel to ‘Sex, Lies and Videotape’ in lockdown.
The 57-year-old director revealed that he has penned a follow-up to his acclaimed 1989 film, which marked his filmmaking breakthrough and starred James Spader and Andie MacDowell and is eager to convey the concept to the cinema.
Speaking on Flaviar’s NightCap Live, Steven mentioned: ”Within the primary six or seven weeks of the lockdown, I completed three screenplays. One of them was a rewrite, considered one of them was an authentic, and one was an adaptation of a novel that I’ve been eager to do.
”The authentic was a sequel to ‘Sex, Lies and Videotape’. It was an concept that had been circling for awhile, and I felt like I got here up with a approach to get again in, and so I wrote it, and I wanna make it.”
Steven – whose earlier credit embrace ‘Traffic’ and the ‘Ocean’s’ trilogy – admits that he has been doing a whole lot of writing to go the time in the course of the coronavirus pandemic.
He defined: ”During the lockdown, I’ve completed extra sustained writing than I’ve completed because the summer season of 1985. And it is value noting that I by no means thought-about myself a author.
”I wrote as a approach to get into the enterprise, as a result of no person can cease you from sitting down in entrance of a keyboard and writing. I grew up in a suburban subdivision in Baton Rouge, I had no connections to the movie trade in any respect, and I simply felt if I write, I’ll write one thing that anyone sees and reads and desires to make.
”So when the lockdown occurred right here in New York, so as to keep organised and sane, I made a decision I’m gonna write. I’ve gotta return to writing.”
