Editing Out of Sight (section)

===Development===
The source novel's origins lie in a picture Leonard saw in the ''[[Detroit News]]'' of a beautiful young female [[United States Marshals Service|federal marshal]] standing in front of a Miami courthouse with a shotgun resting on her hip. Producer [[Danny DeVito]] bought the rights to the book after his success with the [[Get Shorty (film)|1995 film adaptation]] of Leonard's novel ''[[Get Shorty]]''. Steven Soderbergh had made two films for [[Universal Pictures]] when executive [[Casey Silver]] offered him ''Out of Sight'' with George Clooney attached. However, the filmmaker was close to making another project and hesitated to commit. Silver told him, "These things aren't going to line up very often, you should pay attention."<ref name= "Jones, Belinda">{{cite news | last = Jones | first = Belinda | title = Rockumentaries... | work = [[Empire (magazine)|Empire]] | date = January 1999 }}</ref>