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TIL Steven Soderbergh wrote & David Gordon Green planned to direct an adaptation of "A Confederacy of Dunces" starring Will Ferrell, but after it was delayed in part due to Hurricane Katrina & the murder of Louisiana's State Film Commissioner, Soderbergh pronounced the project "cursed"

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