It would be easy to make a movie about the image she’s projected to the world: the hopeless romantic underdog who conquered the world with the power of song! But it would be more interesting to make a Taylor Swift biopic about who she truly is: a talented artist who is also a ruthless businesswoman, relentless in her pursuit of world domination. might just be the filmmaker for that job, because he’s apparently been studying Swift—he saw the Eras Tour concert film, for instance, and has done enough research to know she rehearsed for her shows on a treadmill—and he’s “fascinated” by the behind-the-scenes. Speaking at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival ( ) about Kafka, artificial intelligence, the state of cinema today, Soderberg said he’d like to make “a project in which I analyze large-scale cooperative endeavors.
” One example? “You look at a Taylor Swift concert, well look at that whole tour, and just go, ‘Okay, it works.’ All these people, all this effort, the coordination of it, and it works.” Later, he added “What she has done, what she’s doing in the way she’s doing it, nobody has ever done this before.
The amount of control that she has taken. And she’s doing this all herself. Nobody has ever done this.
It’s working. And it’s a great model.” The director speculated that to make his “large-scale cooperative endeavors” movie, “it better be funny and there should be some musical component” in order to engage the au.