Steven Soderbergh has teased his retirement from Hollywood before, telling reporters that he didn't want to be like "those athletes [who] hang on one or two seasons too long," but always found a new project like 2012's Magic Mike to bring him back. This time, he seems serious, telling Vulture that he's giving up cinema for theatre, painting, and "a TV series if something great were to come along."
Soderbergh has made big-budget features, too, but the lean film style of his independent films is closer to the budget and emerging aesthetic of premium and digital TV. The director says he's hooked on David Fincher's forthcoming Netflix series House of Cards, plus AMC's Breaking Bad and HBO's Girls. A move to television's already been tipped...
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