Filmmaker Scott Frank has a lot more television on the way, even if he keeps telling himself there is an endpoint somewhere. The Emmy-winning, Oscar-nominated writer-director behind “The Queen’s Gambit,” “Godless,” “Logan,” and “Out of Sight” says he is developing a new slate of literary adaptations, including “Red Harvest,” “Laughter in the Dark,” and “The Cone Gatherers.”

Speaking on the Team Deakins podcast, hosted by Roger Deakins and James Deakins, Frank opened up about his upcoming slate, his preference for writing and directing full seasons himself, and the unexpected way “Dept. Q” became a much more hands-on project than originally planned.

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“Red Harvest” is not an entirely new project for Frank. He previously told The New Yorker he was developing an adaptation of the Dashiell Hammett novel for A24 with crime novelist and screenwriter Megan Abbott. But on the podcast, he offered a key update: the project is being conceived as a limited series. The same answer also clarified Abbott’s role on another Frank project, “Laughter in the Dark,” his long-gestating adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov’s 1932 novel.

“I’m doing ‘Red Harvest,’ the Dashiell Hammett book, as a limited series, and I co-wrote that with Megan Abbott,” Frank said. “That was great, having a co-writer where you’re doing it together. That really helped. And we also co-wrote ‘Laughter in the Dark’ together, which I enjoyed very, very much.”

“Laughter in the Dark” has a longer history with Frank. He previously discussed the Nabokov adaptation as a potential reunion with his “Queen’s Gambit” star, Anya Taylor-Joy, who was reported at the time to be attached to star. Netflix later passed on that version, but Frank’s new “Team Deakins” comments suggest the project is still very much on his list.

Frank also mentioned plans to make “The Cone Gatherers,” an adaptation of Robin Jenkins’ 1955 novel, though he did not offer further details on that project.

Speaking more broadly about his upcoming slate, Frank joked that his supposedly finite to-do list is already turning into a long-term commitment. “I’m doing a few. I have a few more coming that we’ll do,” Frank said. “But then after that, I said to my wife, I said, ‘Okay, I’m going to just do— I’m going to do “Red Harvest,” and I’m going to do the Nabokov and “The Cone Gatherers,” and then I’m done.’ She said, ‘Okay, so that’s like 15 years.’”

The writer-director said collaboration can work for him when he is inside the material from the start. He cited co-writing “Red Harvest” and “Laughter in the Dark” with Abbott, as well as writing “Logan” with James Mangold, as examples of that process.

“I really enjoy collaborating that way,” Frank said. “But having other people write something that then I’m just going to rewrite or not rewrite and then maybe direct… it’s hard for me because I’m not inside it in the way that I would need to be inside it.”

That helps explain why Frank has increasingly become his own writer, director, and showrunner on television, though that was not the original plan for “Dept. Q.” On Team Deakins, Frank said the project had been in development for years, and the early idea was for him to help shape the series with another writer, set it in the UK, and let Left Bank Pictures handle the production. But after the show was greenlit, the writers’ strike hit, casting proved difficult, and the scripts were still not ready to shoot.

“So I said, ‘All right, I’ll direct the first two, just that,’” Frank recalled. “At the end of the strike, we didn’t have any scripts that were shootable… Long story short, I ended up just saying, ‘All right, I’ll just do it. I’ll just do everything, essentially.’”

Frank said the decision happened in stages, partly because he was “in denial” about how much of the series he would ultimately take on. But by the end of it, he suggested there may not have been a show without him. “Now I’m hooked on it,” he said. “And if I don’t do it, I don’t think there is a series.”

Frank said he tends to think of these shows less as episodic television than as extended films. “It’s just a longer movie,” he said. “I just think of it as a longer movie, and it gets cut up in different ways.”

That approach will continue with “Dept. Q,” which is now officially moving forward on Season 2. Netflix announced that the series has started production in Scotland, with Matthew Goode returning as DCI Carl Morck, the difficult, brilliant detective leading a cold-case unit out of the basement of an Edinburgh police station.

The filmmaker also told Team Deakins that Season 2 is using the second book more as a starting point than a strict blueprint.

“With the second book, I didn’t even read the book,” Frank said. “There’s an idea at the core that I just loved. And then [I] went from there and created the characters, but the ones that were already created from the first book are carrying on into the second season.”

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The new season is also adding a large ensemble around them. Aisling Franciosi (“Speak No Evil,” “The Nightingale”), Greg Wise (“The Crown,” “The Buccaneers”), Nicholas Rowe (“Red Eye” Season 2, “A Spy Among Friends”), Tony Curran (“Outlander: Blood of My Blood,” “Mary & George”), Hamish Clark (“Monarch of the Glen”), Alex Ferns (“Waiting for the Out,” “The Batman”), Ross Anderson (“A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,” “The Rig”), Rebecca Root (“Heartstopper,” “The Wheel of Time”), Isla Johnston (“The Queen’s Gambit,” “The Carpenter’s Son”), and Amy Brenneman (“The Old Man,” “Judging Amy”).

Netflix says the second season will again be filmed and set in Edinburgh, following the success of the location in Season 1. The debut season spent six weeks in Netflix’s Global Top Ten shows.

No premiere date has been announced yet for “Dept. Q” Season 2, though with production now underway, a 2027 return seems likely. “Red Harvest,” “Laughter in the Dark,” and “The Cone Gatherers,” meanwhile, appear to be in various stages of development, with Frank now making clear that at least two of them—“Red Harvest” and “Laughter in the Dark”—have already been written with Abbott. Given Frank’s recent run across “The Queen’s Gambit,” “Godless,” and “Dept. Q,” it is hard to imagine those projects staying quiet for long.