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Steven Soderbergh has two films coming out in the first quarter of 2025 with the haunted-house thriller “Presence” (Neon, January 24) and the espionage caper “Black Bag” (Focus Features, March 14). The latter stars Cate Blanchett in her first Soderbergh-directed joint since 2006’s black-and-white noir homage “The Good German,” while Fassbender starred in Soderbergh’s 2011 “Haywire.” Watch the trailer for “Black Bag,” in which Blanchett and Fassbender are married spies playing games with each other.
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.”
The cast of the film also includes Regé-Jean Page, Marisa Abela, Naomie Harris, Pierce Brosnan, and Tom Burke. “Black Bag” shot in London last year. and is produced by Casey Silver and Gregory Jacobs. The screenplay hails from David Koepp, who recently wrote the scripts for Soderbergh’s 2022 “Kimi” starring Zoe Kravitz, plus “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” and the upcoming “Jurassic World Rebirth.”
Oscar winner Soderbergh recently lined up his next movie, “The Christophers,” with a cast including Ian McKellen, Michaela Coel, and James Corden for the dark comedy shooting in London this February. Per Deadline, the script, written by Soderbergh’s “No Sudden Move” and “Full Circle” scribe Ed Solomon, is “about the estranged children of a once-famous artist who hire a forger to complete his unfinished works so they can be discovered and sold after his death.”
Watch the trailer for “Black Bag” below and look for it in theaters March 14.
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