Scott Frank

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...

Minority Report TV pilot casts Daniel London from original movie

Posted 12 years ago

Last month we told you that the TV adaptation of the Steven Spielberg classic MINORITY REPORT had found someone to helm its pilot episode in established TV director Mark Mylod. The series that will pick up 10 years after the...

Minority Report TV series finds its pilot episode director

Posted 12 years ago

The last update we had on the small screen adaptation of Steven Spielberg’s MINORITY REPORT was that FOX had ordered the pilot episode, a small but meaningful step for the series. The show has taken another step forward and the...

Exclusive 1:1 Interview: A Walk Among the Tombstones Star Dan Stevens!

Posted 12 years ago

Having not been familiar with “Downton Abbey” I knew very little about one of the series stars Dan Stevens. And while he may not be a household name, he certainly will be one soon. With his mesmerizing work in the...