
Steven Sonderbergh and Scott Frank (Out of Sight) have collaborated on an upcoming Western series for Netflix called Godless.
According to a report by Collider, the limited series is set in the Wild West during the 1880s and it tells the story of:
An outlaw named Frank Griffin (played by Jeff Daniels), whose band of murderous sundries are hunting down Roy Goode (played by Jack O’Connell), one of their own who turned on their brotherhood. As Roy hides out in a New Mexican mining town run mostly by women, he meets the tough widow Alice Fletcher (played by Michelle Dockery), and the two prepare alongside the rest of the town for what will be an ultimate showdown as Griffin’s men arrive.”
The show will consist of seven episodes with Frank directing and Soderbergh serving as executive producer.
Another member of the cast, Scoot McNairy (Halt and Catch Fire), had this to say about the project:
I grew up in Texas, born and raised. And I’m a sixth generation cattle farmer. My great-great-grandfather ran a cattle farm in the 1880s in West Texas. […] I wanted to do a Western way before I wanted to even be an actor. When I saw the script, I just felt incredibly lucky and incredibly blessed to not just be a part of a Western, but be a part of this Western. […] The story is really great, I feel like it’s really a film about women and women’s strength. I also thought that that’s something that hasn’t been done, really hasn’t been done so predominantly in a film. And, to do it in a Western, I just really wanted to be a part of it.”
Godless also stars Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Merritt Weaver, Jeremy Bobb, Rob Morgan, Whitney Able, Sam Waterston, Audrey Moore, Christiane Sedel, and Kim Coates.
Godless will premiere on November 22 on Netflix.
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