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Why Steven Soderbergh Turned Down Directing ‘Death Becomes Her’: ‘This Is So Far Beyond My Capability’
Steven Soderbergh discusses turning down 'Death Becomes Her' because the CGI was too intimidating.
But Soderbergh did acknowledge that he was offered a chance to direct “Death Becomes Her,” which would have happened shortly after he scored a breakout hit with 1989’s “Sex, Lies, and Videotape.” He’d keep advancing the form with “Forest Gump’s” groundbreaking use of CGI, which allowed Tom Hanks to meets presidents and historical figures, as well as deploy performance-capture technology with movies like “The Polar Express” and “Beowulf.” “Death Becomes Her’s” all-star cast included Meryl Streep, Bruce Willis and Goldie Hawn. When Soderbergh spoke to Variety, he didn’t reveal his follow-up to “Presence,” but he did offer that he had a project he’d discovered that “is a really great idea that gets me excited.”
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