Stephen Soderbergh asks for THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE!
He wants to spend 14 days with a porn star to shoot the GFE, a movie about a $10,000 a night prostitute.
The always busy Stephen Soderbergh will direct The Girlfriend Experience, a movie about a $10,000 a night prostitute and much like the recent UK ITV drama Secret Diary of a Call-Girl (pictured below) - it will revolve around her p.o.v and sexual exploits. Brian Koppelman and David Levien will scribe, they pitched the idea to Soderbergh whilst the trio were working on Ocean's Thirteen.
Soderbergh is said to be toying whether to use an actual adult film actress for the lead to add than extra authenticity, similar to what he did with Bubble - his low budget and partly improvisational shot film with no professional actors that was released simultaneously in theatres, on cable TV and on DVD. The Girlfriend Experience will be the second in the six movie distribution deal to release films this way via 2929 Entertainment and their HDNet label. The movie will be shot in the short span of 14 days (presumably most of it will be in various bedrooms) this fall say Variety. Soderbergh's next movie, the government conspiracy thriller The Informant with Matt Damon will lense soon and later this year we will finally see his two movie epic biopics on Che Guerra which both starred Benicio del Toro. And if Soderbergh decides to give himself his debut role (i.e. not an extra) in The Girlfriend Experience - then fair play to him. Must be tempting!