In the wake of the success of Netflix’s “The Queen’s Gambit,” the show’s creator and celebrated writer Scott Frank has been drawing praise for his work both on that show and in the past be it films he wrote like “Out of Sight,” “Minority Report” and “Logan” to his first Netflix mini-series “Godless”.
Recently Frank sat down with The Watch (via The Playlist) podcast and answered questions about what he’s working on next including a reunion with actress Anya Taylor-Joy along with some other exciting projects.
First up is an adaptation of Maria Doria Russell’s novel “The Sparrow” which Emmy-winning filmmaker Johan Renck (“Chernobyl,” “Breaking Bad”) will direct.
He and Taylor-Joy are looking to re-team for a film adaptation of Nabokov’s “Laughter In The Dark” which he plans to do as “film noir and a movie within a movie. And it’s a really nasty, wonderful, thriller.” Much of the crew from “The Queen’s Gambit” are expected to return for that one.
Perhaps the most exciting sounding one though is his development of a TV series based on Detective Sam Spade, the iconic protagonist of Dashiell Hammett’s 1930 novel “The Maltese Falcon” which Humphrey Bogart played so iconically in the 1941 movie.
Asked about his approach, he says: “What if you do Sam Spade later in life and he’s 60s years old? He’s now an ex-pat living in the South of France. His past comes to his past and finds him in this small town. It’s going to be a six-episode series with Clive Owen.”
Finally he’s also writing a sequel to his novel “Shaker”.
