Director Steven Soderbergh is not the sort of person to sit around moping. Renowned for the speed at which he works, he’s also well known for doing things that make studios nervous. That resulted in him stepping away from directing a film version of Man From UNCLE last week after disagreements with Warner Bros. Now he’s already found a replacement to shoot before he moves on to his planned Liberace biopic next summer.
THR reports that director Steven Soderbergh is now re-teaming with Contagion screenwriter Scott Z. Burns for a new project entitled The Bitter Pill. Little is known about the storyline of the movie, except that it will be set in the world of psychopharmacology, the scientific field which looks at how drugs affect the mind. The Playlist adds that it originated in research Burns did for the TV series Wonderland, and that Burns himself originally intended to direct.
The writer has said that it, “deals with people and their moods. It’s about how we as a society can’t tolerate sadness and what that makes us vulnerable to.” The Bitter Pill is supposedly a thriller somewhat in the vein of Fatal Attraction, and Burns says the film has a definite twist.
The project is currently being pitched to several studios, but it’s believed Soderbergh wants to set it up quickly so he can shoot in before the Liberace movie.
General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser
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