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Steven Soderbergh, Hollywood's Enemy Number One

The film—starring Channing Tatum and Daniel Craig as hillbilly thieves—is the director at his best: clever and funny as hell.
Soderbergh on set with Daniel Craig, who plays a hillbilly bank robber in "Logan Lucky."
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When Steven Soderbergh received the script for Logan Lucky in 2014, the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind Traffic and Erin Brockovich was already more than a year into his retirement from movie directing, and a comeback seemed unlikely. Debacles trying to mount Moneyball and The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (only to be fired from both) had ;  he was, and remains, a vocal critic of the industry. “A certain kind of rodent might be smarter than a studio when it comes to picking projects,” he said .

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