‘Unsane,’ Steven Soderbergh’s iPhone Horror Movie, Will Arrive In 2018
Steven Soderberghalready has his next film release lined-up. Always up for experimenting with the medium of film,Logan Luckydirector recently shot the horror movieUnsaneon an iPhone, and now the film is set for a 2018 release date. The film featuresJuno Temple,Claire Foy,Amy Irving,Aimee MullinsandJay Pharoah.
After a brief sojourn into the land of retirement, director Steven Soderbergh is back in action. The filmmaker behind theOcean’s 11franchise,Trafficand more, released his ensemble comedyLogan Luckythis year, and he has the experimental TV seriesMosaiccoming up. And now comes word that he already has a release date set for his next flick.Deadlinereports Soderbergh’sUnsanewill open wide onMarch 23, 2018.
Soderbergh loves to experiment – his new showMosaic, for instance,has an app that lets viewers explore the outcome of plot lines and characters from different perspectives. In keeping with that experimental tradition, Soderbergh shotUnsaneentirely on an iPhone. Soderbergh isn’t the first director to venture into iPhone cinematography, though.The Florida Projectdirector Sean Baker shot his filmTangerineentirely on iPhones, to great success.
Very little is known aboutUnsaneat the moment. In fact, until the Deadline story broke, no one was referring to the film as horror. But the prospect of Soderbergh making a horror film is intriguing. It’s not a genre Soderbergh dabbles in that often. The closest he’s come is his little-seen 1991 filmKakfa, a fictional biopic ofMetamorphosisauthor Franz Kafka in which the author finds himself caught up in a storyline that could’ve been taken directly from his works.
Soderbergh has also dabbled in the thriller genre, creating the nightmarish pandemic filmContagionand the psychological dramaSide Effects.Side Effectsmay, in fact, give us a hint as to whatUnsaneis about. In aReddit AMAearlier this year, someone asked Soderbergh “Have you ever thought about making any films about mental health and the current state of psychiatry/medication? Given you’ve discussed pandemics, health, it seems like a topic you might be good at?” To which the filmmaker replied: “Yeah, we tried to delve into that with SIDE EFFECTS but it’s a big enough subject I might have to return to it. Stay tuned…”
PerhapsUnsanewill find Soderbergh returning to a story about mental health? The title would certainly suggest so. I’m sure we’ll know more the closer we get to the March 23 release date.
In the meantime, keep an eye out for the home release of Soderbergh’sLogan Lucky, which hits Blu-ray onNovember 28, 2017.
