Soderbergh talks to IndieWire about "Jaws," his 15-year project to write a book about directing, and working to get his entire film catalog in 4K HDR.
With Presence, Steven Soderbergh Resurrects Ghost Story
"I always operate the camera, but this was next level," the director says. "I’m really in there with the actors."
Steven Soderbergh isn’t just the director and cinematographer of his latest film. He’s also, in a way, its central character. “Presence” is filmed entirely from the POV of a ghost inside a home a family has just moved into.
There’s only so much that a person can hold before everything collapses.” With Presence now in theaters, Vogue spoke to Liu and Liang about preparing for their unconventional film—and their own relationships to the paranormal.
Over Zoom I spoke to Koepp about writing within the confines of the film’s single point-of-view, the value of what’s left out of a story, dreams and screenwriting, and his thoughts on the business of screenwriting today. Presence opens January 24, 2025 from NEON.
Doing his own camerawork, the director gleefully enriches the haunted-house genre with a simple but ingenious device.
Presence is a more delicate and nuanced haunted house movie that takes a more elevated route to horror as opposed to more gory ghost stories like 13 Ghosts or The Haunting in Connecticut. If you’re looking to watch something with fewer horrific images and jump scares while you wait to see Presence, check out these similar movies!
The filmmaker turns a supernatural thriller into a first-person storytelling experiment and a family drama that'd make Eugene O'Neill cringe.
Over the course of his nearly four-decade career, Steven Soderbergh has just about done it all—including, now, made a horror film. Presence is a ghost story like no other, assuming the first-person perspective of a specter that haunts a suburban clan that’s moved into its residence.
Directed by Steven Soderbergh. Starring Lucy Liu, Julia Fox, Chris Sullivan, Callina Liang, Lucas Papaelias, West Mulholland, Eddy Maday, Daniel Danielson, Benny Elledge, and Natalie Woolams-Torres. SYNOPSIS: A family becomes convinced they are not alone after moving into their new home in the suburbs.
Ocean's 14' is heating up and Brad Pitt and George Clooney seem to have found a direct in 'Bullet Train' filmmaker David Leitch,
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