The director of “Command Z”—a series about a regretful, time-bending billionaire, played by Michael Cera—ponders time-machine-aided do-overs with the writer Kurt Andersen.
At the Brandy Library, in Tribeca, a man in suspenders led Steven Soderbergh down a spiral staircase, into an amber-lit V.I.P. lounge. Soderbergh, who calls the bar his “satellite office” , ordered “the usual.” The usual was singani, a Bolivian spirit made with Muscat of Alexandria grapes that are grown in the Andes, at an altitude of six thousand feet. Soderbergh first tasted it in 2007, while directing “Che,” and learned that it had never been exported from Bolivia.
The result is “Command Z,” a sci-fi series that Soderbergh self-funded and released independently this summer, available on the Web site commandzseries.com, in eight bite-size episodes. Michael Cera plays a billionaire who has blown himself up on his way to Mars and appears in the dystopian year 2053 as an A.I. upload. His digital double sends a trio of employees on a mission to save the world by travelling back to 2023 and influencing ultra-powerful jerks to make better decisions.
Still, the thought experiment was tempting. Given the opportunity to go back in time, how would they influence our future billionaire overlords? Let’s say: Zuckerberg, 2004, Harvard University. “Get him laid more,” Andersen spitballed. How about Musk, in his South African adolescence? Andersen proposed enrolling teen Elon in an institute to teach him “that free speech is not just being an asshole and a troll and saying whatever you want and, like, lolz.” The Koch brothers? “Just kill them,” Andersen joked. Donald Trump? “His father was a monster,” Andersen reasoned. “He would be better today if I went back in time to 1946 and raised him as my own.
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