Steven Soderbergh teaming up with 'Moonlight' writer Tarell Alvin McCraney for next film
It would be an understatement to say Steven Soderbergh is a jack-of-all-trades...but really, he is.
When he's not producing Amazon's Red Oaks, Starz The Girlfriend Experience, and Netflix western Godless, the 54-year old Academy Award-winning director has managed to helm HBO's upcoming interactive television experience Mosaic while wrapping his upcoming films Ocean's 8 and his iPhone-filmed horror/thriller Unsane. But if that wasn't enough to make you rethink how 'busy' your schedule is, might I add Soderbergh has two new projects in the works, including a collaboration with the Academy Award-winning writer of Moonlight, Tarell Alvin McCraney.
While promoting HBO's upcoming drama Mosaic, the jack-of-all-trades filmmaker shared a few details about his next collaboration with American playwright, Tarell Alvin McCraney and his Knick co-star Andre Holland. Though details about the film are still under wraps, Soderbergh shared just enough to pique our interest going forward.
"I’m doing a small film that I’ve been developing with Andre Holland, who was in [i]The Knick, and is being written by Tarell Alvin McCraney, who wrote the play that Moonlight was based on."[/i] Soderbergh shared with Wired. "[McCraney] and I started talking during the first season of [i]The Knick about a project and the script just came in and it’s great. It’ll be shot here in New York. He co-wrote the 2016 film Moonlight, based on his own play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue, for which he received an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay."[/i]
Speaking of busy, the 37-year old Academy Award-winning writer and playwright, Tarell Alvin McCraney, is currently writing a series for Oprah Winfrey's Network OWN, and is inspired by events in McCraney's life. The untitled series follows a 14-year-old prodigy from the projects who is haunted by the death of his closest friend, and relied on by his hardworking mother to find a way out of poverty. McCraney will write and executive produce his coming-of-age series along with producing partners Melissa Loy and actor Michael B. Jordan.
Soderbergh and McCraney's new film will also serve as a reunion with talented actor Andre Holland. Despite The Knick's short lived but critically acclaimed run concluding in 2015, fans of the 37-year old actor will be rewarded in 2018 with Holland set to co-star in Ava DuVernay's A Wrinkle in Time, Steve McQueen's female-led heist drama Widows, and Hulu's series adaptation of Stephen King's Castle Rock.
I couldn't be happier to see all three talents focus their efforts in one film. Stay tuned as more details unfold.
