The spy thriller is directed by Steven Soderbergh and stars a very impressive cast alongside the former Bridgerton breakout.
It’s been nearly six months since Bridgerton heartthrob Rege-Jean Page joined the star-studded cast of Steven Soderbergh’s upcoming film, Black Bag. Penned by Jurassic Park and Spider-Man writer David Koepp, this highly anticipated cinematic masterpiece was snapped up by Focus Features in January and began filming in London five months later, wrapping up by the end of June.
While details about the plot remain tightly guarded, it’s known that Black Bag delves into the world of espionage, marking a natural progression for Soderbergh after directing the Ocean’s trilogy and crime films like The Good German, Logan Lucky, Out of Sight and No Sudden Move.
Thanks to his roles in Netflix’s The Gray Man and last year’s Dungeons and Dragons: Honour Among Thieves, Page is no stranger to sharing the screen with Hollywood heavyweights. Joining him in Black Bag are double Oscar-winner Cate Blanchett, Michael Fassbender of The Killer fame, and No Time to Die’s Naomie Harris.
Tom Burke, who recently commanded the War Rig in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Pierce Brosnan, and Back to Black actress Marisa Abela are all set to star in the upcoming film. In a recent interview with IndieWire, Soderbergh gave fans a sneak peek into his new film, Black Bag, describing it as more than just your typical spy movie, but rather a “love story” with a marriage at its heart.
“There are no chase sequences or anything like that. It’s an intimate relationship film about people who work in the intelligence service. But super-entertaining, and fun. There’s a 12-page dinner scene that scared me. But one of the things that kept me calm was the six people sitting at that table,” he confessed, reports the Mirror.
Soderbergh revealed that the idea for the film came about while working on his next project, Presence, with David Koepp. He suggested creating a version of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? where George and Martha are part of the intelligence community.
Koepp found the idea intriguing and months later presented Soderbergh with a draft script which he thought was fantastic. “So it’s a very, very specific take on people who are in the intelligence business but also have complex personal, emotional lives,” Soderbergh continued, before delving into how the aforementioned dinner sequence proved to be a director’s nightmare.
“Nobody even moves from their seat. And that kept me up. Because how do you do that? How do I keep this thing interesting for 12 minutes, and nobody’s moving? The good news is the scene as a piece of writing it’s spectacular. And what happens at the end of it, you don’t see coming.”
