With 'Monsieur Spade' and 'Sugar,' elements of the hard-boiled detective story are turning up with updated twists
Screenwriter Scott Frank emerged as a master of snappy banter in the ’90s when he adapted crime novelist Elmore Leonard's witty stories 'Get Shorty' and 'Out of Sight.' So it seemed only natural that Frank, after creating Emmy-winning projects 'Godless' and 'The Queen's Gambit,' would want to tap film noir's rich tradition of smart talk when he approached veteran writer-producer Tom Fontana with a proposition.
'I remember having a meeting with Scott and saying, 'Don't freak out because I'm not going to do a bad impersonation, but I'm really digging into Bogart for this because I think it's helpful to have him as a template' and Scott said to me, 'That's so weird because when I wrote this, I kind of had to hear Bogart say the lines to know I'd nailed it.
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