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Scott Frank and Steven Soderbergh, who worked together on 1998's Oscar-nominated Out Of Sight, are re-teaming for this Netflix drama, which is created by Frank and exec-produced by Soderbergh.

A Western set in a 1800s New Mexico mining town, Godless will star Jack O'Connell as Roy Goode, and Jeff Daniels as Frank Griffin. The story will see Griffin, the leader of a notorious gang, searching for Goode, who is his mortal enemy after previously being like a son to him. The rest of the cast includes Merritt Weaver as the brash widow of the late mayor, Jeremy Bobb as the editor of the Santa Fe Dailey Review, and Thomas Brodie-Sangster as the town deputy.

Although the setting has been well-mined (pun only partially intended) by now, there's a lot of talent in front of the camera to make this very promising, while Soderbergh and Frank should be able to bring something fresh and dramatic to it.

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