Actor Andre Holland has confirmed that a sequel to Steven Soderbergh’s professional basketball drama “High Flying Bird” is in the works.
One of the best films of last year, the “Moonlight” and “The Eddy” actor played a sports agent that comes up with a plan for how to help his clients make money during an NBA lockout.
Talking with Al.com, he was asked how his character might handle the current pandemic and that led him to open up about talks he’s having about a continuation:
“In my imagination, I think Ray would, first of all, want to make sure that his clients are good, right. That everybody’s taken care of financially. Everybody’s fine, you know, families are okay and health wise. Now, once that was done, I think that he would probably be using this as an opportunity to try and further level the playing field. For me so much of what the book is about. And what we wanted the movie to be about is this balance of power, labor and management, who gets to be the one that calls the shots.
And it’s funny you bring that up because the call I was on earlier and then have a thing later today to talk about this very thing. We’re working on a sequel to the film. I haven’t told anybody that… but working on that. So yeah, I think hopefully, once we get this made, we’ll be able, I’ll be able to answer that question with a 90-minute movie.”
Soderbergh, who filmed the first movie on an iPhone, was tapped by the DGA last month to lead a task force to determine when work on Hollywood productions can resume. “High Flying Bird” is available now on Netflix.
