EXCLUSIVE: Focus Options has gained a bidding battle for Black Bag, a bundle for a spy thriller movie that Steven Soderbergh will direct this summer season in Europe from a David Koepp script, with Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender hooked up to star. Casey Silver and Greg Jacobs are producing.
This marks the second deal this week for Soderbergh and a Koepp-scripted mission. The director made a triumphant return to Sundance, the place 35 years in the past the $1 million deal for intercourse, lies, & videotape modified the sport. His ghost story Presence bought to Neon in a splashy cope with a number of bidders in an public sale that adopted the movie’s premiere earlier this week.
Black Bag was dispersed to studios in the identical time span. The deal was brokered by CAA and by Michael Sugar’s Sugar23.
No numbers but on this bundle, however it continues to be the easiest way for expertise to be within the driver’s seat. Come to the desk with a script, director and forged, and also you’ll discover studios keen to pay a premium for a movie they’ll plug into their slates.
Ryan Coogler is getting an identical reception on an untitled style staff up with Michael B. Jordan that’s taking place to the wire with Warner Bros, Sony Photos and Common all vying for the mission and the prospect to be in enterprise long run with the Black Panther and Creed director.
