Steven Soderbergh reunites with Out Of Sight writer for Netflix Western
Ostensibly retired film director and prolific TV producer Steven Soderbergh is teaming up with Netflix and screenwriter Scott Frank for a new limited series, the streaming service’s second after the Gilmore Girls revival that’s currently in the works. Soderbergh will executive produce while Frank writes and directs Godless, which is being described as a Western set in the 1880s. The pair previously worked together on 1998’s Out Of Sight, the film that inflicted Soderbergh with his “George Clooney as a charismatic thief” addiction that came to dominate so much of his 2000s-era film output. We can only hope the new series doesn’t lead to a similar case of burgeoning Soderberghian obsession, because we’re not sure if we could put up with the Ocean’s-esque diminishing returns of Godlesser and Godlessest.