By Filmmaker Steven Soderbergh says he’s currently developing an untitled project inspired by Taylor Swift’s “The Eras Tour” concerts and its subsequent film.
It’s not clear if the project is a film or a television series, only that the major box-office hit was an inspiration for Soderbergh, whose aim is to show how a massive production like that comes together.
He tells Variety he’s been thinking about a project in which he analyzes large scale, cooperative endeavors that function: “Airports. Why do airports work? Or AA? You look at the Taylor Swift concert, at this whole tour and it works. So why can’t we figure out Syria or any other conflict?”
He adds that whatever the project is, humor and some musical component will be a key part of it, the aim being for audiences “to come out on the other side after you see it, and feel different.”
As for Swift herself, he says: “People laugh that there is a college class being taught about her and I go, ‘There should be.’ What she is doing, the way she is doing it… Nobody has ever done this before. The amount of control she has taken over. She is relentless.”
The “Traffic,” “Contagion” and “Logan Lucky” director’s most recent film was “Presence” which premiered at Sundance in January. The Lucy Liu-led psychological thriller hasn’t set a release as yet. He’s currently working on the spy thriller “Black Bag” to star Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender.
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