By Victor Stiff
Soderbergh’s latest viewing “experience” lets the viewer tell the story.
Last month, HBO and Steven Soderbergh finally revealed their secret multimedia collaboration, Mosaic. Mosaic is a television series/choose your own adventure-style app hybrid about a murder mystery, where viewers select which branching paths the story will take; the plot points are fixed but the viewer chooses how they want to follow along. The app is now available as a free download and HBO will release Mosaic as a six-part miniseries this January. To mark Mosaic’s launch on iOS, HBO released the show’s second trailer.
Live action choose your own adventure-style multimedia experiences have been around since digital storage jumped to CD-ROM drives. The additional space on CD’s allowed video game makers to take their shot at live action Hollywood-style stories. And more often than not, the results were uninspired. Games like Night Trap gained cult followings for their cheese-tastic-ness, but unlike a movie like Wolf Cop, these games weren’t trying to be schlocky — the results were often more Roger Corman than Roger Deakins. What’s notable about Mosaic, is the pedigree that Soderbergh brings to the table.
Soderbergh is an Oscar-winning director who brings talent, respect, and credibility to every experimental project he tackles. For Mosaic, Soderbergh brought along a solid cast of actors which includes Sharon Stone (Casino), Garrett Hedlund (Mudbound), Paul Reubens (Blow), and Beau Bridges (Bloodline). Details on the show are scarce; IMDb is listing the plot as, “Plot kept under wraps. Described as a show with an interactive element where the audience can determine the outcome of the story.” What we do know is that Mosaic is a murder mystery and features Sharon Stone as an author/illustrator named Olivia Lake. Take a look.
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