Steven Soderbergh Pushed Warner Bros. To “Take The Meeting” With Christopher Nolan To Direct ‘Insomnia’

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Steven Soderbergh had a hand in Christopher Nolan landing the director’s chair for the 2002 thriller Insomnia. The Command Z director recently recalled that he reached out to Warner Bros.

bosses to suggest they take a meeting with Nolan. “What happened was, I got a call from Chris’ agent, Dan Aloni, who I had known because he screened Memento for me after Memento couldn’t find a distributor after being on the festival circuit for a year,” Soderbergh said in an interview with Rolling Stone. “Dan calls me up out of the blue and says, ‘Could you watch this movie?

I have this client of mine who has this movie, and we think it’s really good, but nobody will pick it up and we don’t understand why.

Maybe we’re all crazy.'” He continued, “I see the movie, and I think it’s a fucking instant classic, and I go, ‘Well, this is really depressing.’ I was really upset when I got out of there.