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Channels with Peter Kafka

Making a superhero movie for adults (Scott Frank, screenwriter, 'Logan')

Channels with Peter Kafka

Vox Media Podcast Network

Business News, News, Tv & Film, Technology

4.4585 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Screenwriter and novelist Scott Frank talks with Recode's Peter Kafka about writing a superhero movie for people who don't like superhero movies: "Logan," an R-rated sendoff for Wolverine, Hugh Jackman's iconic "X-Men" character. Frank explains how he lucked his way into a job at Paramount at age 24 and what he learned from writing films like "Get Shorty," "Malice" and "Out of Sight." He also discusses his next project after "Logan" — a western miniseries for Netflix called "Godless" — and why, after a long career in Hollywood, he decided last year to write his first novel, "Shaker." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:45.9

future today and let builders build. This is Recode Media with Peter Kafka. That's me. It's powered by

0:53.3

digital media. That is a real company with a weird sounding name. I'm here with Scott Frank.

0:58.1

I love you.

0:58.5

forward name. Hi, Scott. Thanks for joining. Thanks for having me. You do many things. You've written a book. We'll talk about that. You're making a cool Netflix show with Steven Soderberg. You've made a couple of my favorite movies. Walk Among Tombstones is a

1:11.0

recent one. Out of sight is one of my all-time favorite movies. Thank you. Should we go through

1:15.0

your entire IMDB? We can do whatever you want. What's the best way to describe you? Writer,

1:20.3

director, all of the above? I think all of the above. I'm directing more these days than I was

1:25.8

before. So probably, I think going forward, I'll do a lot more

1:29.0

writing and directing. So probably when you listen to this podcast, Scott's newest project that you can

1:35.0

consume will be Logan. That's the adult Wolverine movie? Yes. I sure hope so. You're the writer for that

1:42.0

one. Yes. Yes, with Jim Mangold who directed it. So this is an R-rated superhero movie. Think about a very hard-ar paper moon. That's really what it is. That's great. Is that a Fox film? Yeah, so do they know you're making a hard-ar paper moon? They do. God bless him. Jim and I worked on the last one one. He directed the one before, and we tried to do something with that. We got halfway. It was a different, we'll say, leadership at Fox at the time. And so we only got half of what we wanted to do in the last one. So when the leadership changed at the studio, we had a great conversation with them. And on this one,

2:20.0

we were sort of able to do our unsuperhero superhero movie. This is what people have been

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