Following his writing films like “Out of Sight” and “Logan,” and creating TV series like “The Queen’s Gambit” and “Dept. Q,” filmmaker Scott Frank has lined up multiple new projects based on literary works.

Speaking on the Team Deakins podcast (via The Playlist, hosted by Roger Deakins and James Deakins, Frank opened up about various project he has in development alongside a second season of “Dept. Q” which has started production in Edinburgh.

First up, he confirms he and fellow writer Megan Abbott are teaming up for limited series adaptations of the novel “Red Harvest” by “The Maltese Falcon” author Dashiell Hammett, and Vladimir Nabokov’s 1932 novel “Laughter in the Dark”.

“Red Harvest” follows a hard-boiled detective in a corrupt mining town who ruthlessly turns its rival criminal factions against each other. “Laughter in the Dark” follows a wealthy married man who destroys his comfortable life through an obsessive affair with a manipulative young woman.

He confirms the pair are co-writing both projects and thoroughly enjoyed the process on both.

He also confirmed plans to adapt Robin Jenkins’ 1955 novel “The Cone Gatherers,” but further details weren’t forthcoming. “The Cone Gatherers” follows two brothers on a Scottish estate during WW2 who become entangled with a gamekeeper consumed by hatred and resentment.

Finally, he revealed that Netflix has bought his novel “Shaker” with plans to adapt it as a limited series, though no word as to who will be involved in that. That book follows a hitman who finds himself caught in the middle of Los Angeles after an earthquake.