When I went to see Steven Soderbergh's Netflix drama High Flying Bird, I had no idea what to expect. All I knew was that it was about an agent in the middle of an NBA lockout, it was shot on an iPhone, and it starred André Holland, who worked with Soderbergh on The Knick. I left wowed by his performance, but also impressed by the top draft pick his character was representing in the film. I was curious... who was that young actor? It turns out I'd see him before, and on Netflix to boot, as one of …

This week on The Collider.com Podcast, we're talking about The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part and High Flying Bird. With The Lego Movie 2, we discuss how it compares to the first movie, the falling fortunes of the LEGO franchise, why the sequel wasn't a hit at the box office, what happens to the franchise going forward, and more. Then we switch over to High Flying Bird, talk about how the film also functions as a metaphor for disrupting filmmaking, the great performances, how it compares to Soderbergh's planned adaptation of Moneyball, and more. We …

In 2009, days before production was about to begin, production on Steven Soderbergh’s adaptation of Moneyball was put on hold. Soderbergh wanted to put elements like interviews with real-life players into the movies, and that made Sony skittish, so they fired him and replaced him with Bennett Miller with Aaron Sorkin working on the screenplay. High Flying Bird feels like it could be the movie Soderbergh wanted to make with Moneyball—an intense, cerebral, hard-hitting look at the business of sport interspersed with interviews from real athletes from that sport. The setting is now basketball instead of …