Steven Soderbergh Planning Panama Papers Movie

For several years, Traffic, Magic Mike and Ocean’s 11 helmer Steven Soderbergh kept saying he was going to retire from directing, but never quite seemed to manage it. However, after Behind the Candelabra he suggested he really was done, before directing loads of episodes of TV’s The Knick.

Now it looks like he’s going cinematic again, as Variety reports he’s working on a movie surrounding the recently released Panama Papers. The movie will be based on Jake Bernsteins, upcoming book “The Secrecy World. Berstein was a senior reporter on the team that broke the Panama Papers story.

Secrecy World is ‘an account of the leak of 11 million documents from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca about dubious global financial transactions. The Panama Papers were leaked by International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and provided details of how the wealthy and powerful used the law firm to escape scrutiny.’

It’s no known when the movie might go into production.