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Hey, remember when writer-director Steven Soderbergh retired from filmmaking back in 2013? Remember how it didn’t take at all? After a series of complaints about how badly Hollywood treats its directors, he revitalized his career with a series of experiments, from shooting entire feature films on a series of iPhones to self-distributing his film Logan Lucky in an attempt to bypass traditional gatekeepers.
His latest gambit to get around Hollywood is one an increasing number of high-profile filmmakers are taking: he’s making films with Netflix, starting with 2018’s High Flying Bird, and now moving on to The Laundromat. The first trailer for that new film just arrived, and it showcases a dynamic that seems familiar from Soderbergh’s…