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Scott Frank, co-creator, writer and director of breakout Netflix hit The Queen's Gambit, is swapping chess for Jesuit priests and extraterrestrial life in his next project. Frank is developing an adaptation of Mary Doria Russell's 1996 novel The Sparrow for FX with Chernobyl director Johan Renck on board as…

EXCLUSIVE: After Ford v Ferrari landed an Oscar nomination for Best Picture, Matt Damon and James Mangold are teaming again. Damon is attached to an adaptation of the 2017 Don Winslow bestseller The Force, which Mangold has been developing to direct for 20th Century Studios. There is potential here for the kind of New…

Netflix has ordered six episodes of The Queen’s Gambit, a limited series based on Walter Tevis' novel from two-time Oscar nominee Scott Frank (Godless, Logan), with Anya Taylor-Joy (Split, Glass, The Witch) set to star. Co-written by Frank, who also directs, and Allan Scott (Don't Look Now, The Preacher's Wife), The Qu…

EXCLUSIVE: There are dozens of dialogue lines that made William Goldman an iconic screenwriter — "Follow the money" from All the President's Men, and "Is it safe?" from Marathon Man among them — but to a legion of top screenwriters whom Goldman helped find their voices, here's a lesser-known signature line just as…

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…

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: 20th Century Fox has set Scott Frank to rewrite The Force, the adaptation of the bestselling NYPD corrupt cop thriller novel by Don Winslow. James Mangold has been developing to direct, and this reunites him with Frank after they shared a Best Original Screenplay Oscar nomination with Michael Green for Logan…

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…

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…

EXCLUSIVE: Jeff Daniels and Scoot McNairy are in talks to board Scott Frank’s Godless for Netflix, joining the previously announced Jack O’Connell. The project is a limited period drama series from the Out of Sight duo of Steven Soderbergh and Scott Frank. Written, directed and executive produced by Frank, Godless is…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures is eyeing Scott Frank to write The Seven Five, the feature film adaptation of the hard-hitting ’80s NYPD corrupt-cop documentary that the studio grabbed in a big auction in December amidst the hacking scandal. If the deal makes, it will be a whopper and will pair Frank with already attached hel…