Empire caught up with Steven Soderbergh for a chat were they talked a little about his upcoming spy thriller 'Knockout' starring mixed martial arts fighter and former Gladiator Gina Carano.
“My feeling was, If I don’t do this, somebody else will,” says the Oscar-winning director. “I felt, somebody is going to look at her and go, ‘She should be in a movie!’ And I felt like, Why shouldn’t I be the person saying that?”
If you start following the female mma fighters, Gina pops out pretty noticeably,” says Soderbergh. “I thought it was a fascinating combination of appearance and activity... I’d been wanting to make a spy action film for a while, but hadn’t really determined what I was going to bring to it that would distinguish it from the traditional approach. Then I thought, ‘Why don’t I just build it around her? She can actually break people in half.’ I was interested in doing something ultra-realistic.”
Soderbergh describes Knockout as “a combination of a Bond movie and Point Blank”, though, “more on the scale of From Russian With Love than, you know, Quantum Of Solace... Something where the characters and the story are as prominent as the action stuff.”
Empire caught up with Steven Soderbergh for a chat were they talked a little about his upcoming spy thriller 'Knockout' starring mixed martial arts fighter and former Gladiator Gina Carano.
