Steven Soderbergh's Haywire

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=58882

With the release of his new corporate comedy The Informant! just a few weeks away, director Steven Soderbergh is already lining up his next movie, and Variety reports that the prolific filmmaker has chosen to direct a spy thriller called Knockout, which will be the acting debut of Mixed Martial Arts fighter Gina Carano,

Soderbergh discovered Carano on the women's mixed martial arts circuit, although she has previously appeared in the doc Ring GIrls and on the television shows "Fight Girls" and "American Gladiators" (playing "Crush"). The Muay Thai trained fighter will play a girl from the wrong side of the tracks who is given a second chance to use her skills for constructive purposes, and it's said to be more of an action movie in the vein if the James Bond franchise or Luc Besson's La Femme Nikita.

Scripted by Len Dobbs, who wrote Kafka and The Limey for Soderbergh, produced by Gregory Jacobs and Ryan Kavanaugh, and financed by Relativity Media, the film should start shooting sometime in February 2010.

There is an official press release at the link.......this just sounds so un-Soderbergh that I'm intrigued to see how it develops.

 

[Terminator]

GINA!

Nudity? t:'

Sorry, it's Soderbergh.

 

[daywalker2007]

Great news!
maybe this will mean Gina goes into acting and stops doing that martial arts.

She's way to pretty to be doing mma, and we don't want to see her lose her pretty face.

I say good job Soderbergh!
I will definitely watch this one!

t:

 

[Dr. Evil]

She does need a backup plan if (when) Strikeforce folds.

 

[Terminator]

They made money on Cyborg vs Carano and they've been around for a while now so unless Strikeforce majorly ****s up or UFC starts gunning for them (which they have started), I don't see them going out of business just yet.

Great news!
maybe this will mean Gina goes into acting and stops doing that martial arts.

She's way to pretty to be doing mma, and we don't want to see her lose her pretty face.

I say good job Soderbergh!
I will definitely watch this one!

t:

That's silly. I'm not worried about her face getting messed up because I have respect for her as a fighter. An athlete. She shouldn't have to quit what she loves doing because she's beautiful.

 

[Octoberist]

no pictures of this Gina girl?

 

[Terminator]

http://www.maxim.com/girls/girls-of-maxim/70326/gina-carano.html?thumbnails=true

 

[dark_b]

way to hot for a fighter

 

[Aesop Rocks]

Her acting debut? Someone hasn't played Red Alert 3!

Spoiler

Spoiler

 

[dark_b]

 

[Aesop Rocks]

I wonder how many of her own stunts she will do?

 

[Doctor Jones]

Well, if Soderburgh can do a supposedly good movie with a porn star why not a fighter?

 

[Dr. Evil]

Could have done a lot worse then Steven Soderbergh that's for sure.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Hopefully she can act. because this could really suck. The only faith I have so far is that Soderbergh is directing.

 

[Dr. Evil]

I've heard that she will be surrounded by legit actors in this movie, in the hopes that it masks any acting deficiencies she has.

 

[Doctor Jones]

That means it better have a great script.

 

[TNC9852002]

Poor girl should've trained harder..

 

[TheComicbookKid]

Dang!


Sometimes, surrounding a newbie with good vets can only expose the newbie's shortcomings more, but I hardly think this will revolutionize the female action flick.

 

[3dman27]

sounds good

 

[Dr. Evil]

Massive Bump due to casting news:

When Steven Soderbergh announced that he would direct a spy/action film starring MMA fighter Gina Carano written by his The Limey screenwriter Lem Dobbs, the reaction was positive. Now that the name supporting cast is being revealed, I’m curious to hear what people have to say. Personally, each news item has elevated my interest. There are also some new details on the script, as the original idea for the film has been reworked slightly, though it is still very much in the action/thriller vein.

Movieline broke the first casting news today, that Inglourious Basterds‘ Michael Fassbender would be seen in the film. “I’ll be starting work with Steven Soderbergh in the beginning of February in Dublin,” he told the site.

That scoop prompted The Playlist to chime in with additional casting news: also in the mix are Ewan McGregor, Michael Douglas and Dennis Quaid. (Hey, two news stories for Quaid today!) That makes for a hell of a lineup. Fassbender is turning into a real man of the moment based on his work in Hunger and Basterds, and Douglas has already had a good working relationship with Soderbergh in Traffic. It’s easy to be down on McGregor of late, but I’ll bet that Soderbergh can get good work from him.

Originally, the film was pitched as a sort of La Femme Nikita tale — Carano would have played a woman with a bad history who is redeemed by her covert work. Variety’s logline was “a girl from the wrong side of the tracks is given a second chance to use her skills for constructive purposes.” Now, as The Playlist has it, the story goes like this:

Double crossed by someone on her own team, Mallory Kane (Carano)— a black ops super soldier — seeks to uncover who has set her up to take the fall for a job that goes bad that involves a murder.

Expect to see Douglas as a government authority figure, McGregor as the head of a Blackwater-like PMC, and Quaid, Fassbender and one other big actor yet to be announced as other commando types, one of whom does the betraying.

The plot is still fairly routine, and given the fact that Soderbergh has namedropped Point Blank when talking about this in the past, not a huge surprise. But I’ll take this group making a revenge thriller. Any day.

http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/01/07...-fassbender-dennis-quaid-and-michael-douglas/

 

[TheComicbookKid]

That is some supporting cast. Could backfire and make her look like a total amateur in comparison.

 

[COAL TIGER]

Where's her dick?

 

[baerrtt]

If KNOCKOUT becomes a hit(and with Soderbergh you never know) I wonder how quickly the 'Gina for Wonder Woman' campaign will start?

 

[Dr. Evil]

Channing Tatum joins the cast:

http://theplaylist.blogspot.com/2010/01/exclusive-channing-tatum-joins.html

 

[TheComicbookKid]

Broken promise
http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Channing-Tatum-And-Antonio-Banderas-Also-Joining-Knockout-16493.html

I thought he said he would surround her with a great supporting cast?Tatum!

The article says it's a small part.