He racks 'em up and knocks 'em down. Steven Soderbergh is currently at work on Knockout, but before he starts Liberace with Michael Douglas, there's the small matter of global virus threat movie Contagion. As previously reported, it's set to star Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Marion Cotillard and Jude Law. Now Deadline Hollywood are reporting that Gwyneth Paltrow has been added to the starry cast.
We don't know much yet about Contagion, so its tough to speculate about Gwynnie's role. But we'll say this: despite the snarky publicity she often gets, she's proved again and again - The Royal Tenenbaums, Proof, Two Lovers, Iron Man - that she can be damn good, so we're all in favour of her joining forces with Soderbergh.
Contagion has been written by The Informant**!'s Scott Z Burns, inspired by a discussion about germs on the Informant**! set. Douglas Adams always said that getting a movie made in Hollywood was like trying to grill a steak by having a succession of people come into a room and breathe on it, but it turns out that if someone as much as sneezes around Soderbergh, a film gets made.