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Solaris (2003)
Plot: An adaptation of the sci-fi novel by Polish author Stanislaw Lem, Solaris centers on a psychologist sent to investigate the unexplained behavior of key scientists on a space station orbiting the planet Solaris. Once aboard, the psychologist falls victim to the unique world’s mysteries, as well as an erotic obsession with someone he thought he had left behind.
News:
2 August, 2002
This film has moved up its release date to November 27, 2002. The film wrapped production three weeks ago, allowing for an earlier release. The studio has no intention of moving it again, regardless of jockeying by other studios.
"The film is in great shape so early in the post process that bringing it up a couple of weeks is no problem," said James Cameron, who is producing along with Rae Sanchini and John Landau. "Nov. 27 is a great date, but from what Steven has been showing me of the rough cut, 'Solaris' is going to be such a landmark of science fiction filmmaking that it doesn't really matter when it is released," Cameron added.
20 May, 2002
If you're going to be visiting the Warner Bros. studio soon for the tour, be sure to take along a camera. According to Coming Attractions, a set for this film is visible from the tour.
7 March, 2002
Natascha McElhone (The Truman Show) has been cast in Soderbergh's remake of Solaris. She will appear alongside George Clooney.
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28 December, 2002
Cinesite has been selected to provide digital effects for the picture. That would include spaceships, landscapes, water surfaces and the creation and healing of wounds.
17 December, 2001
13th Street featured a review of the script, oddly enough not credited to Soderbergh.
It certainly read like a Soderbergh script and clocking it at a mere seventy-five pages, it's an odd, yet quite thrilling screenplay. Yes, there are changes from the book and the Tarkovsky version, but they are subtle and it's obvious that Soderbergh is going for the same kind of exploratory/questioning tone that the Russian director went for and isn't just going to turn it into a movie 'about a planet full of apes.'
You can find the review here.
2 March, 2001
Soderbergh did an interview with Chris Gore of Film Threat and talked a bit about the project.
Soderbergh: I'm also working on “Solaris,” which is science fiction. That'll be different.
Gore: Is that the remake of the Russian film?
Soderbergh: Yes.
Gore: That's fantastic. That's something you're working on right now, development?
Soderbergh: No, I'm writing it. What's interesting about it is it's not a hardware science fiction movie, it's a psychological drama that happens to be set in space, and that's what's interesting to me about it. I'm interested in science fiction, but only in the conceptual side of it.
Gore: There are hardly any real science fiction movies made today. They're all about the hardware or selling action figures.
Soderbergh: Exactly, and my whole pitch to James Cameron's company, because they owned the rights, and it was something I was interested in for awhile, and I said if we do our jobs right it’s a combination of “2001” and “Last Tango in Paris.” They said "Oh that sounds good."
Gore: Amazing.
Soderbergh: I'm excited by it. It's the first thing that I've wanted to write in a long time. I had been writing “Son of Schizopolis” and I put that aside to work on this.
