New York (AFP)
American director Steven Soderbergh has signed a three-year contract to produce content for the cable channel HBO and the new platform HBO Max, which is scheduled to launch in the spring.
Mostly known for his films, the director has already made several appearances on television, most of them with HBO and Cinemax (another channel of the same group), recently with the series "The Knick" and "Mosaic".
He has already won an Emmy Award, the American television awards, for the TV movie "My life with Liberace", in 2013, also produced for HBO.
As part of this new agreement, it is already planned that he will direct the TV movie "Let Them All Talk", with Meryl Streep, Candice Bergen and Dianne Wiest, whose release is scheduled for 2020 on HBO Max, according to a published statement. Wednesday.
Arriving late in the battle for platforms, the HBO Max subscription service has launched, to differentiate itself, a large series of original projects, which will be added to HBO's recognized program offering.
The group WarnerMedia, parent company of HBO, said nothing about the other projects, besides the TV movie "Let Them All Talk", on which the director was working, Palme d'or at the Cannes festival in 1989 for the film "Sex, lies and video. "
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