{"id":185313,"date":"2026-04-04T09:01:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T09:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/185313\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T09:01:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T09:01:33","slug":"paramount-removes-87-rt-neo-noir-thriller-from-the-queens-gambit-creator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/185313\/","title":{"rendered":"Paramount+ Removes 87% RT Neo-Noir Thriller From \u2018The Queen’s Gambit\u2019 Creator"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Before he broke out as one of the most acclaimed showrunners of his generation with the Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit<\/a>, Scott Frank<\/a> had already created a well-received limited series for the streamer, the Western drama Godless<\/a>. It didn’t break out into the mainstream, perhaps because it debuted a few years before the new wave of interest in Westerns spurred on by Taylor Sheridan<\/a>‘s work. But Godless remains one of the best-received shows that Netflix has released. Before that, Frank was best known as the Oscar-nominated writer of Steven Soderbergh’s Out of Sight<\/a>, and for being one of the industry’s busiest script doctors. Over the years, he performed uncredited work on projects such as Saving Private Ryan<\/a> and Gravity<\/a> before going on to earn his second Oscar nomination for co-writing Logan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Frank made his directorial debut with a neo-noir movie that originally had Sam Mendes<\/a> attached to helm. Mendes had broken out with American Beauty<\/a>, and was eyeing the neo-noir as his sophomore feature; he left to direct Road to Perdition<\/a> instead. Frank recruited Joseph Gordon-Levitt<\/a> for the lead role of an amnesiac former athlete who unwittingly becomes involved in a bank heist. The cast also included Jeff Daniels<\/a>, Isla Fisher<\/a>, and Matthew Goode<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Shogun-Shinnosuke-Abe\"<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tA Lightning Round of Riveting Historical Dramas in the Collider TV Quiz!
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Television has long been a modern touchstone for events of the past. Let’s look at eight shows that look at eight moments in history.<\/p>\n

Here’s Your New Neo-Noir Obsession<\/p>\n

The movie in question is The Lookout<\/a>, which was released in 2007, two years after Gordon-Levitt broke out with the fellow neo-noir movie Brick<\/a>, directed by Rian Johnson<\/a>. The Lookout wasn’t exactly a box-office hit, grossing a little more than $5 million against a reported budget of $16 million. However, it received critical acclaim, and is now sitting at a “Certified Fresh” 87% score on Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>. The website’s consensus reads, “The Lookout is a genuinely suspenseful and affecting noir due to the great ensemble cast and their complex, realistic characters.” Frank went on to direct another neo-noir, A Walk Among the Tombstones<\/a>, starring Liam Neeson<\/a> and released in 2013. In addition to Godless and The Queen’s Gambit, he has also created the mystery series Dept. Q<\/a> for Netflix; the show is set to return for a second season after premiering last year. Frank also co-created the AMC neo-noir series Monsieur Spade<\/a>, starring Clive Owen<\/a> as an older version of Dashiell Hammett’s famous gumshoe. The Lookout recently left Paramount+, but is available to stream on the platform via Apple TV, Prime Video, and Hulu. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.<\/p>\n

Release Date<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMarch 9, 2007<\/p>\n

Runtime<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t99 minutes<\/p>\n

Director<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tScott Frank<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before he broke out as one of the most acclaimed showrunners of his generation with the Netflix series…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-185313","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-queens","12":"tag-queens-headlines","13":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}