Godless marks Scott Frank’s first foray into the western genre. One could argue that his screenplay for Logan was western-adjacent, but Godless is a tried and true western complete with outlaws, gunfights, a town tragedy, a drifter and horses — an animal that executive producer Steven Soderbergh fears. Created and…

Editor’s note: This story originally ran on May 14. With one Emmy and five nominations to date, Jeff Daniels will compete this year in both Lead and Supporting Categories with roles in two acclaimed series, Hulu’s The Looming Tower and Netflix original Western Godless. Jeff Daniels…

Deadline Awards Columnist and Chief Film Critic Pete Hammond gives his take on contenders in the key categories for the 2018 Primetime Emmy Awards. Here, he breaks down the category of Outstanding Limited Series. Last season provided a real race between several juggernauts in this category, including Feud: Bette and Jo…

Merritt Wever has been in many, many fan favorite shows and films—The Good Wife, New Girl, Birdman, The Walking Dead, and Nurse Jackie, for which she won an Emmy—but it perhaps wasn't until Scott Frank's Netflix Western Godless that we've seen a different side to her work; one that allowed her to really show a new…

EXCLUSIVE: The 2018 Sundance Film Festival is just over a month away, but some of the other work of the Robert Redford-founded organization is a little closer, and today the advisers, projects and fellows for the Screenwriters Lab were unveiled. At SFF 2017, The Big Sick director Michael Showalter was one of the…

With traffic jams and family affairs upon us for Thanksgiving, there are really just two things you need to know about Amazon's November 29-launching The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. First, the adjective in the title of the Amy Sherman-Palladino-created series is more than apt, and the Beat Generation-set dramedy starring Ra…

EXCLUSIVE: "I looked you in the eye and you don't seem so stone cold to me," a confident Michelle Dockery tells Jack O'Connell in the new trailer for Netflix's upcoming Godless. Set to launch on the streaming service on November 22, the Western drama based in a mining town run by women has a lot of guns, a lot of…

Netflix has set November 22 for the premiere of Godless, a limited period drama series from the Out of Sight duo of Steven Soderbergh and Scott Frank. Written, directed and executive produced by Frank, the seven-part Godless is a Western set in an 1800s New Mexico mining town, starring Jeff Daniels, Michelle Dockery…

Netflix has rounded out the cast of its limited period drama series Godless from Steven Soderbergh and Scott Frank. Production has begun in Santa Fe, NM for premiere worldwide on Netflix in 2017. The six-episode series, set in the expansive landscape of the great western frontier, centers around Frank Griffin (Jeff…

Downton Abbey star Michelle Dockery has been cast as the female lead in Netflix’s western miniseries Godless, from the Out of Sight duo of Steven Soderbergh and Scott Frank. Dockery joins previously cast Jeff Daniels and Jack O’Donnell in the period drama that is set to premiere worldwide on Netflix in 2017. Godless…

Rob Morgan has been cast in a recurring role in the Netflix limited period drama series Godless. Written, directed and executive produced by Scott Frank, Godless is a Western set in an 1800s New Mexico mining town. Morgan will play John Randall, joining previously announced cast Jeff Daniels, Jack O’Connell, Merritt…

Whitney Able (Monsters) and Samantha Soule have joined the cast of Netflix limited period drama series Godless from Steven Soderbergh and Scott Frank. Written, directed and executive produced by Frank, Godless is a Western set in an 1800s New Mexico mining town. Able will play Anna McNue and Soule is Charlotte Temple…