Steven Soderbergh Called A Warner Bros. Exec Who Didn’t Like ‘Memento’ To Consider Christopher Nolan For ‘Insomnia’

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At this point in their respective careers, Steven Soderbergh and Christopher Nolan are household names for cinephiles. But once upon a time, in the early ’00s, Soderbergh needed to help Nolan get his foot in the door when it came to his entry into studio filmmaking.

Variety (via Rolling Stone) reports that Soderbergh called up Warner Bros. on behalf of Nolan to convince an exec who didn’t like Nolan’s “Memento” to consider the director for “Insomnia.” All it took was three simple worlds: “take the meeting.” READ MORE: Christopher Nolan Doesn’t Refute The Idea Of A ‘Star Wars’ Project In The Future “What happened was, I got a call from Chris’ agent, Dan Aloni, who I had known because he screened”‘Memento” for me after it couldn’t find a distributor after being on the festival circuit for a year,” Soderbergh started off.

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