Here’s the trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s “Black Bag.” Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender star in the film alongside Regé-Jean Page, Marisa Abela, Naomie Harris, Tom Burke and Pierce Brosnan.
Soderbergh has described “Black Bag” as his own take on a Howard Hawks film. Hawks was a genre-hopper (“Scarface,” “Rio Bravo,” “His Girl Friday”). In Hawks' own words, his directing style was based on being “enjoyable” and “straightforward” — that might be what Soderbergh is going for with his next one.
Per Focus Features, the film is “a gripping spy drama about legendary intelligence agents George Woodhouse and his beloved wife Kathryn. When she is suspected of betraying the nation, George faces the ultimate test — loyalty to his marriage or his country.”
Soderbergh has described “Black Bag” as being about the “intelligence community” and a couple fully invested in that part of the world. He added that there’s a 12-page scene in the script where people are “sitting down for a dinner. They don’t move. There’s no huge gunfight. Nothing but people eating dinner”.
While we’re at it, Soderbergh has another film headed to theaters in 2025, the excellent house-horror of “Presence,” which premiered at Sundance, and is set for release on January 17 via Neon.
The prolific Soderbergh isn’t done either. He’s set to embark on a four-week shoot for his dark comedy, “The Christophers,” in February. Are we going to be getting three films from Soderbergh in 2025?
Soderbergh retired from filmmaking in 2013, clarifying that he had a five-year plan that saw him transitioning away from making feature films when he reached his 50th birthday. And yet, here we are at the start of a new decade, and, so much for retirement. Soderbergh has released 8 movies in the last 6 years, including “Logan Lucky” and “KIMI,” and that’s not counting the three he might have hit theaters next year.
“Black Bag” is set to hit theaters on March 14, 2025 via Focus Features.