Steven Soder­bergh has writ­ten a sequel to Sex, Lies, and Videotape

A new movie from Steven Soder­bergh means a new round of inter­views with the man him­self as he works the press cir­cuit, which means at least a hand­ful of indeli­ble sound­bites. His ardent­ly inde­pen­dent spir­it always yields a few choice quotes from each inter­view, and while he’s already ruled that the cloudy-look­ing fate of the cin­e­ma indus­try is in actu­al­i­ty secure, he’s not done drop­ping bombs.

In an inter­view with crit­ic Amy Taubin for Film­mak­er Mag­a­zine, Soder­bergh made men­tion that he’s work­ing on a sequel to his name-mak­ing hit Sex, Lies, and Video­tape. He’s com­plet­ed a script while holed up in his Tribeca office dur­ing these many months of quar­an­tine, and bet­ter yet, he’s got­ten Andie Mac­Dow­ell and Lau­ra San Gia­co­mo on board to reprise their orig­i­nal roles.

Soderbergh’s debut film first wowed audi­ences at Sun­dance, where the then-26-year-old won the Audi­ence Award, and blew away the inter­na­tion­al press at Cannes, where he col­lect­ed the Palme d’Or, mak­ing him the youngest ever to sin­gle­hand­ed­ly win the festival’s top prize. He was cred­it­ed with jump-start­ing the ​’90s indie-cin­e­ma rev­o­lu­tion through his lo-fi, voyeuris­tic look into the sex­u­al eccen­tric­i­ties of hap­less wife Ann (Mac­Dow­ell), her free­wheel­ing sis­ter Cyn­thia (San Gia­co­mo), and the allur­ing Gra­ham (James Spad­er, who won Cannes’ Best Actor prize).

The pro­posed sequel would rejoin the sis­ters 30 years after the events of the film, with one of them moth­er to a daugh­ter of the approx­i­mate age they were back in 1989. Though Spad­er has yet to sign on for the ges­tat­ing film, it stands to rea­son that his char­ac­ter would make an appear­ance as well, the years hav­ing worn on him as they have on his distaff costars.

It might sound beneath a tal­ent of Soderbergh’s stature to start going back to old mate­r­i­al for a sequel, but let’s not for­get that he made an art out of refresh­ing and renew­ing a schemat­ic on the Ocean’s 11 trilogy.