'The Queen's Gambit' Creator Scott Frank Is Making A Sam Spade TV Series Starring Clive Owen
The Queen's Gambit creator Scott Frank reveals his upcoming slate of projects, including a Sam Spade TV series starring Clive Owen.
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'Logan' Filmmakers Reunite For 'The Force' Movie
The Logan team of James Mangold and Scott Frank will reunite for The Force movie, adapted from the novel by Don Winslow.
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'Godless' Creator Scott Frank On Crafting His Epic Netflix Western [Interview]
In our Scott Frank interview, we speak to the creator of the acclaimed Netflix miniseries Godless and discuss the show's beginnings as a film script.
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'Godless' Trailer: Scott Frank's Western Netflix Series Looks Like The Show We Need Right Now
The full-length Godless trailer gives us our best look yet at director Scott Frank's new Netflix western, which stars Michelle Dockery, Jeff Daniels & more.
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'Godless' Trailer: Jeff Daniels And Michelle Dockery Go West In Steven Soderbergh's Netflix Series
Netflix has released the Godless trailer promoting Steven Soderbergh and Scott Frank's limited series starring Jeff Daniels and Michelle Dockery.
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'Godless' First Look: A Six-Hour Western From Scott Frank, Steven Soderbergh, And Netflix
Scott Frank (The Lookout) wrote and directed a new six-hour miniseries, Godless, which he calls an "old school western." Check out the Godless first look.
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James Mangold Talks Alternate 'Logan' Opening That Was Axed For Being Too Grim
Logan opens with its hero fallen on hard times, drunk as a skunk and as violent as ever, but one Logan alternate opening began in Westchester, New York.
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'Logan' Deleted Scene: The "Beware The Light" Scene Went On A Bit Little Longer
On May 23, Logan will be available to purchase on DVD and Blu-Ray. It'll include a black and white cut of the film and this particular Logan deleted scene.
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'Logan' Screenwriter Scott Frank On Finishing His Debut Novel 'Shaker' Fifteen Years After He Began [Interview]
15 years after starting his debut novel, filmmaker Scott Frank finally finished his Los Angeles-set crime story and we sat down to talk to him about it.
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Interview: 'Logan' Co-Writer Scott Frank Brings A Superhero Back To Reality
In our Scott Frank interview, the Logan screenwriter explains how he wanted to explore one broken man, not a superhero saving the day.
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Why 'Logan' Director James Mangold Scrapped His Idea For A Sabretooth Cameo
There is no Logan Sabretooth cameo, but director James Mangold did have an idea for one. Sabretooth would've lent Wolverine a hand during his road trip.
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'The Invitation' Team Will Make The Scott Frank-Produced Horror Film 'Breed'
The writers and director behind The Invitation are teaming up with producer Scott Frank and 20th Century Fox to make a Breed movie directed by Karyn Kusama.
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Steven Soderbergh Goes 'Godless' For Netflix, Insert Your Own "I Thought He Was Retired?" Joke Here
The great Steven Soderbergh has teamed up with Out of Sight writer Scott Frank for Godless, a western limited series for Netflix.
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Superhero Bits: Batman V Superman, Agents Of SHIELD, Rocket Raccoon, The Wolverine, Flash
What character trait does Ben Affleck share with his character in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice? Which cast member from the original Flash TV show is also returning to the new Flash TV show? Did the writer of The Wolverine like how the movie turned out? Want to see a trailer and images from…
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'A Walk Among The Tombstones' Trailer: Liam Neeson Might Be In Over His Head
It seems like a film adaptation of Lawrence Block's novel A Walk Among the Tombstones has been in the offing for a very long time. We've seen Block's Matt Scudder character on film before, played by Jeff Bridges in Eight Million Ways to Die. But now Liam Neeson takes on the character for an adaptation…
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Release Dates: Guillermo Del Toro's 'Crimson Peak,' 'Pitch Perfect 2,' 'Everest,' 'Ouija' And Others
Universal Pictures just dated seven major upcoming releases including three in 2015. The biggest titles are Guillermo del Toro's Crimson Peak, which will hit regular and IMAX theaters October 16, 2015 and Pitch Perfect 2, which'll be out May 15, 2015. There's also Baltasar Kormákur's star-studded Everest on February 27, 2015 and the Platinum Dunes film…
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Liam Neeson The Latest To Help Revive 'A Walk Among The Tombstones'
Once upon a time it looked like Harrison Ford might play Matt Scudder in an adaptation of Lawrence Block's novel A Walk Among the Tombstones. Scripted by Scott Frank (Minority Report, Out of Sight) the film has been in development for quite a while. This week it got some new juice, however, with financing from…
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Scott Frank To Write 'Houdini' For Director Francis Lawrence
Briefly: Another story that is the subject of several different development projects is the life of Harry Houdini. One movie that hopes to exploit his story is the Columbia project simply called Houdini, which for the past few months has had Francis Lawrence (Water For Elephants, I Am Legend) attached to direct. Last time we…
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What's Up With Fox's New Planet Of The Apes Movie?
Despite the fact that I don't think anyone is much of a fan of the Tim Burton Planet of the Apes remake, Fox has slowly been developing another film in the same vein. Dubbed Caesar, the film was written by Scott Frank, and was only sort of a Planet of the Apes movie. The film…
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Scott Frank's Planet Of The Apes Prequel
So what's going on with the proposed Planet of the Apes sequel/prequel? 20th Century Fox has hired writer/director Scott Frank (The Lookout) to develop a new film based on the Planet of the Apes film property. At first it was rumored that the film would be a remake of Conquest of the Apes or a…
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The Lookout: Interview With Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Matthew Goode And Scott Frank
A couple weeks ago I had the opportunity to sit down with The Lookout stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Matthew Goode and writer/director Scott Frank to discuss the new film. I apologize for the unusually low quality recording, we had to make due as my professional digital recorder broke during the interview. [audio:http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/interviews/lookout.mp3] Miramax's deceptive marketing The…
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Scott Frank Plans Western And Mid-Life Crisis
The Lookout director Scott Frank (screenwriter of Minority Report, Get Shorty) is already hard at work on his next projects: a potential western and a mid-life crisis drama titled "Fourty Four". The Western: "I'm going to try like hell to make this western that I've written but I'm getting the sense that's going to be…
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The Lookout Director Scott Frank Discusses Deceptive Marketing Gone Wrong
If you've seen the movie trailer and poster (pictured left) for The Lookout, than you're probably expecting a dark Memento like heist movie, and you would be wrong. It's probably the worest example of false movie advertising since Bridge To Terabithia (which promised but failed to be a Narnia fantasy world family film). And it's…
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