Scott Frank developing new projects with Clive Owen & Anya Taylor-Joy

Posted 5 years ago

With The Queen's Gambit proving to be an incredibly successful mini-series for Netflix, co-creator, writer, director Scott Frank is busy developing his next projects. While speaking on The Watch podcast, Frank revealed that he has several projects in the works,...

TV Review: The Queen’s Gambit starring Anya Taylor-Joy

Posted 6 years ago

Plot: Abandoned and entrusted to a Kentucky orphanage in the late 1950s, Beth Harmon discovers an astonishing talent for chess while developing an addiction to tranquilizers provided by the state as a sedative for the children. Haunted by her personal demons and...

Logan writer Scott Frank to reteam with James Mangold on The Force

Posted 8 years ago

After sharing a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar nomination with James Mangold and Michael Green for LOGAN, Deadline states that Scott Frank is set to reunite with Mangold for THE FORCE, an adaptation of Don Winslow's best-selling cop thriller. The most...

Scott Frank to write and produce snowbound kidnapper thriller No Exit

Posted 9 years ago

20th Century Fox has picked up the film rights to the Taylor Adams novel NO EXIT, with screenwriter Scott Frank attached to write and produce the adaptation. Published this past summer, NO EXIT centers on  college student Darby Thorne, who,...

Making movies is a rough business in these clips for Epix’s Get Shorty

Posted 9 years ago

I've never come across a single person who has told me that making movies is easy, though I would imagine that dealing with dead bodies, pre-madonnas, and itchy trigger-fingered thugs is a whole other kettle of fish. Do you remember...

The UnPopular Opinion: Knight & Day

Posted 9 years ago

Alex THE UNPOPULAR OPINION is an ongoing column featuring different takes on films that either the writer HATED, but that the majority of film fans LOVED, or that the writer LOVED, but that most others LOATHED. We're hoping this column...

Ray Romano & Chris O’Dowd topline Epix’s Get Shorty series

Posted 10 years ago

Replace John Travolta and Gene Hackman with Chris O'Dowd and Ray Romano, and you've now got yourself the starring cast for Epix's series adaptation of GET SHORTY.  Announced earlier this summer, the series would position O'Dowd as Miles Daly, the...

Get Shorty is the latest feature film of yesteryear to get adapted for TV

Posted 10 years ago

GET SHORTY was one of those films that took place during the renaissance period of John Travolta's rebirth in the mid-90s. Based on Elmore Leonard's novel of the same name, the film centered around a loan shark who decided to make a...

Steven Soderbergh is saddling up with Netflix for Western miniseries Godless

Posted 10 years ago

It remains to be seen if Steven Soderbergh will actually come out of feature filmmaking retirement to direct HILLBILLY HEIST, however he does have another small screen project in the works. It's being reported that Soderbergh will reunite with his...

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