Steven Soderbergh Directing The Girlfriend Experience

Steven Soderbergh is set to direct The Girlfriend Experience, a film about the world of prostitution from the vantage point of a $10,000-a-night call girl.

According to Variety, rather than going for star power, Soderbergh may set an adult film actress to play the lead role. Brian Koppelman and David Levien will write the script.

This project marks the director's first exploration of sexual relationships since his breakthrough film, sex, lies & videotape.

The title, The Girlfriend Experience, refers to a phenomenon in which wealthy men pay not just for the quality of a sexual encounter but also for a woman who will play the role of a perfect girlfriend. The arrangement apparently involves more intimacy than the usual prostitution relationship. Soderbergh, Koppelman and Levien interviewed numerous women and fixed on an interior look at a woman who makes $1 million a year in the business.

Production is set to begin in the fall.


Sources: Variety

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  1. edjuardo_roel

    i've heard rumors that uknown ryder skye is going to get the role. she was just recently in "sex and the city" and the cover of AVN and is doing an article for details magazine. seems like a lot of stuff going on for a newbie no one outside of porn has ever heard of. supposedly she was a theatre major at SDSU. I checked her out at ryderskye.com. pretty hot. gotta airbrush out the tats though. i guess if angelina can do it so can this chick.

    4 years agoby @edjuardo-roelFlag

  2. CelluloidDreams

    There is also another film along the same lines called: "Whor*" by controversial British director and screenwriter Ken Russell, starring actress Theresa Russell.

    4 years agoby @2movieguysFlag

  3. CelluloidDreams

    Steven Soderbergh makes some interesting films...but I think this was done before with the "The Happy Hooker"!!!

    4 years agoby @2movieguysFlag

  4. They call me ITCHY BALLS

    I wanna see t*ts and ass in the mainstream cinema.

    4 years agoby @danbrchFlag

  5. sirmetro

    What the f*ck? A f*ck movie!! What I have been waiting for this entire time.R18?... that would be a good gesture.

    4 years agoby @sirmetroFlag

  6. Phatlightning

    this should be mandatory for all women to see, minus the money thing.

    4 years agoby @sxers2k1Flag

  7. Phatlightning

    i'm going to take about 30 or 40 girls to see this, let them all see what they need to be doing, promise them the 10k a day, never pay.

    4 years agoby @sxers2k1Flag

  8. They call me ITCHY BALLS

    THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE? Most of you dweebs on here will have nothing to relate to with this new film because most of you are still virgins.

    4 years agoby @danbrchFlag

  9. PUNISHER

    Hooker movie, nice. If they get an adult film star they will have no problem getting some nice sex scenes. Not some over paid actress whos to "good" for that sort of thing. Yay Soderbergh.

    4 years agoby @cerealkillerFlag

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