Steven Soderbergh was attached to direct an adaptation of the television series with George Clooney set to star but had to back out due to health issues.

After learning of Malick's work on an article about Che Guevara during the 1960s, Steven Soderbergh offered Malick the chance to write and direct a film about Guevara that he had been developing with Benicio del Toro.

The film was written by Soderbergh in eight days on a yellow legal pad during a cross country trip ( although, as Soderbergh points out in his DVD commentary track, he had been thinking about the film for a year ).

Steven Soderbergh had made two films for Universal Pictures when executive Casey Silver offered him Out of Sight with George Clooney attached.

Soderbergh cites Nicolas Roeg's 1972 film, Don't Look Now as the primary influence on how he approached the love scene between Foley and Sisco: " What I wanted to create in our movie was the intimacy of that, the juxtaposition of these two contrasting things ... We had to mix it up and have you feel like you were more in their heads.

Soderbergh liked what he did so much that he had Holmes score the rest of the film.

Ten years later, Buscemi and director Stephen Soderbergh teamed up to secure widespread distribution for the film as well as financing for the making of one of the four sequels Greaves had considered once he had finished the initial product in the late Sixties.

Head-writer Robert Soderbergh had been friends with Susann before her death in the 1970s and regularly spoke at length with Linda Dano about Susann's passion for living.

She had a small role in Full Frontal, directed by Steven Soderbergh, and starred in Now You Know, written and directed by Kevin Smith regular Jeff Anderson.

Having previously only existed on worn 16mm prints, the film was restored and enlarged to 35mm by the UCLA Film and Television Archive and Milestone Films, thanks in part to a donation from filmmaker Steven Soderbergh.

In October 2008, it was announced that Guided by Voices ' music would be used for a 3-D film musical based on the life of Cleopatra to be directed by Steven Soderbergh with script by former GBV member Jim Greer.

" Critic Janet Maslin wrote of Terence Stamp's work, " Stamp plays the title role furiously, with single-minded intensity, wild blue eyes and a stentorian roar shown off in the film's early moments ... Glimpses of young, dreamily beautiful Stamp and his no less imposing latter-day presence are used by Soderbergh with touching efficacy.

Produced by Jennifer Fox and directed by Steven Soderbergh, the dark comedy / drama film stars Matt Damon as Whitacre.

** Solaris ( 2002 film ), directed by Steven Soderbergh

Soderbergh followed up on the success of Out of Sight by making another crime caper, The Limey ( 1999 ), from an original screenplay by Lem Dobbs and starring veteran actors Terence Stamp and Peter Fonda.

Later that year, Soderbergh released Traffic, a social drama written by Stephen Gaghan and featuring an ensemble cast.

In 2007, Soderbergh and Tony Gilroy contributed an audio commentary to the DVD re-release of The Third Man by the Criterion Collection.

* 2004: Ocean's Twelve directed by Steven Soderbergh

The band's 1984 – 1985 tour was the most lucrative in their history and spawned 9012Live, a concert film directed by Steven Soderbergh with added special effects from Charlex that cost $ 1 million.

* Solaris ( 2002 film ), directed by Steven Soderbergh, produced by James Cameron, emphasizes the relationship between Kelvin and his dead wife — again excluding Lem's scientific and philosophic themes.

* The planet Solaris in Stanislaw Lem's eponymous novel and film versions by Steven Soderbergh and Andrey Tarkovsky.

* King of the Hill ( film ), a 1993 film by Steven Soderbergh

A remake, directed by Steven Soderbergh, starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Andy García and Julia Roberts ( among others ) was released in 2001, followed by a pair of sequels.

George Clooney at the premiere of The Men Who Stare at Goats ( film ) | The Men Who Stare At Goats in the 2009 Toronto International Film FestivalClooney next appeared in The Good German ( 2006 ), a film noir directed by Soderbergh that is set in post-World War II Germany.

The 1996 Steven Soderbergh film Gray's Anatomy, featuring monologuist Spalding Gray, also takes its name from the title of the book, as does Gray's Anatomy: Selected Writings, a 2009 book by British political philosopher John N. Gray.

* Full Frontal ( film ), a 2002 film by Steven Soderbergh

Steven Andrew Soderbergh (; born January 14, 1963 ) is an American film producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor, and an Academy Award-winning film director.

While still taking classes there around the age of fifteen, Soderbergh enrolled in the university's film animation class and began making short 16 mm films with secondhand equipment.

Rather than attending LSU, Soderbergh tried his luck in Hollywood after graduating from high school ; he worked as a game show scorer and cue card holder to make ends meet, and eventually found work as a freelance film editor.

In 2006, Soderbergh raised eyebrows with Bubble, a $ 1. 6 million film featuring a cast of nonprofessional actors.

Guy Ritchie was going to replace Soderbergh before the film adaptation was canceled.

* January 14 – Steven Soderbergh, American film director

The Steven Soderbergh film Bubble ( 2006 ), was filmed in Belpre and Parkersburg, West Virginia, using an all-local cast.

In 2001, he teamed up with Soderbergh again for Ocean's Eleven, a remake of the 1960s Rat Pack film of the same name.

Two years later, Fonda appeared in the 1999 Steven Soderbergh neo noir crime film The Limey, as the money laundering / celebrity rock music producer Terry Valentine.

In the same year, Soderbergh made Full Frontal which was shot mostly on digital video in an improvisational style that deliberately blurred the line between which actors were playing characters and which were playing fictionized versions of themselves.

Following up Full Frontal stylistically was Soderbergh next project, K Street ( 2003 ), a ten-part political HBO series he co-produced with Clooney.

Full Frontal is a 2002 film by Steven Soderbergh, about a day in the life of people in Hollywood.

In the years leading into and the beginning of the 21st century, some filmmakers have returned to the use of nonlinear narrative repeatedly, including Steven Soderbergh in Schizopolis ( 1996 ), Out of Sight ( 1998 ), The Limey ( 1999 ), Full Frontal ( 2002 ), Solaris ( 2002 ), and Che ( 2008 ); Christopher Nolan in Following ( 1998 ), Memento ( 2000 ), The Prestige ( 2006 ), and Inception ( 2010 ).

It wasn't until Soderbergh came back to Baton Rouge that he conceived the idea for Sex, Lies, and Videotape ( 1989 ), which he wrote in eight days.

Soderbergh wrote a 1999 book, Getting Away With It, which consists largely of interviews with Lester.

Edward Guthmann, film critic of the San Francisco Chronicle, praised the direction, and film's screenplay, and wrote, " The Limey ... is a first-rate crime thriller and further proof that Soderbergh is one of our great contemporary film stylists.

In his review for the Los Angeles Times, Kenneth Turan wrote, " As always with the best of Leonard, it's the journey, not the destination, that counts, and director Soderbergh has let it unfold with dry wit and great skill.

Variety magazine's Phil Gallo wrote, " Director Steven Soderbergh uses a guerilla style of filmmaking to capture behind-the-scenes players with a fervent urgency ; if K Street holds its course, it could serve as a primer in understanding modern-day politics ".