Soderbergh Heading Back To The Stage For A New Play; Revamping Kafka For Home Video

With his retirement from directing feature films looming, allegedly, director Steven Soderbergh has apparently given himself quite a full plate when it comes to his post-filmic existence.

Having two films out this year (Side Effects and Behind The Candelabra), the director recently sat down with the folks at Vulture, and revealed a few interesting details about his life going forward.

Apparently the director will be heading to the theater, with two plays, one already set in stone. He’ll be directing a new play from Scott Z. Burns, aka the writer behind films like Side Effects and Contagion, as well as a stage telling of the story of Cleopatra, a project Soderbergh has been working on as a feature film for quite some time now.

Soderbergh has done theater work before (remember his play Tot-Mom, which he led for the Sydney Theater Company in Australia), but what’s even more exciting is that his feature film Kafka will be taking advantage of his time away from being behind the camera, and will apparently be getting a brand new home entertainment release. Well, sort of.

Apparently, Soderbergh plans on “remaking” his film, saying that “it’s funny – wrapping a movie 22 years later.” According to the auteur, he shot some inserts during the shooting of his thriller Side Effects, out next weekend, and that both versions of the film (with and without these new scenes) will be hitting home video.

I haven’t seen this film, just because it is so hard to find, but the idea of Soderbergh taking on an older film of his through these new eyes is really exciting. I think he’s become such a singular filmmaker over the span of his career that it’s going to be quite thrilling to see just what the hell he has in store for this picture.

Source Vulture / The Playlist