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Soderbergh: Che and Cleo
I ran into Steven Soderbergh this weekend at the AFI Fest Che party. He's going to start filming Cleopatra in April. "What's your favorite musical?" I asked him. Pause. He said his inspiration for the 3D musical was Rita Hayworth as Gilda. That's the stylized, ripe tone he's going for, he said. The movie will be shot with with hi-def Red cameras and star as the Egyptian queen Chicago's Catherine Zeta Jones (who worked with Soderbergh on Traffic).
Mark Olsen writes up Che, which Jeff Wells remains ga-ga over. I still think Soderbergh could have wrestled Che into submission at a more audience-friendly length. But all power to him. He's never, ever dull: he just wrapped filming his latest no-budget 2929 movie, The Girlfriend Experience, with porn star Sasha Grey.
Here's a clip from the Che press conference at Toronto.
[Photo of Steven Soderbergh by Jeff Wells]
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a lot of people have expressed their horror upon discovering the news that Soderbergh plans to do this rock'n'roll musical about Cleo. I say, you know what? I think it's gonna be fabulous. It could be a great campy cult hit like Rocky Horror Picture Show or Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
Or it could be disastrous, but it'll still be awesome.
I can't wait to see "Che"
Posted by: DeafBrownTrashPunk | November 04, 2008 at 11:55 AM
I think he ripped this off of Clone High.
Posted by: Marc-OS | November 05, 2008 at 12:15 PM