Soderbergh Virus studies Thriller catch?
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Greg Jacobs Double Feature Films will produce with Michael Shamberg and Stacey SherHas Kate Winslet, Matt Damon, Marion Cotillard, and Jude Law set to star in it this fall, with the media aboard the participants as co-financier. Hollywood studios ended 2009 with their wallets closed for spec scripts and developing new ones. But maybe it will open for Steven Soderbergh’s latest: contagion, an action thriller that takes place in a worst case of a deadly virus.
Of course, this film is a familiar territory of The Andromeda Strain to the outbreak, which beat The hot Ridley Scott on the same subject area. But both were hot properties, and given the subject matter, and the participation of Soderbergh, and that they represent, Contagion should cause a bidding war. Studio executives have read several, and the project will soon be bought by producers and Anonymous Content’s Michael Sugar Soderbergh representative. The script assumes that the traffic meets Bourne and was written by Scott Z. Burns, best known for co-writing The Bourne Ultimatum, who recently collaborated with Soderbergh in The Informant!, As participants, Damon Jacobs
And after he got rid of Moneyball, proactively going the independent route. Production began last week in the coup de grace, the espionage thriller financed by Relativity Media is built around mixed martial arts fighter Gina Carano, which surrounds the newcomer Channing Tatum, Ewan McGregor, Michael Douglas and Michael FassbenderAfter Che, the dissident writer-director has moved in a more commercial direction.
