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23.11.2020 / 19:34

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‘The Queen’s Gambit’ Becomes Netflix’s Biggest Scripted Limited Series With 62M Checking Chess Drama

Peter White Television EditorThe Queen’s Gambit has been watched by 62M households – making it Netflix’s biggest scripted limited series to date.The series, which stars Anya Taylor-Joy as rising chess star Beth Harmon, launched on October 23, and is based on Walter Tevis’ novel.Co-written by Scott Frank, who also directs, and Allan Scott (Don’t Look Now), The Queen’s Gambit chronicles the life of an orphan chess prodigy.

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Is The Queen’s Gambit a true story? Incredible similarities to real life events

Netflix’s latest hit drama series follows an orphaned chess prodigy who battles addiction whilst rising through the ranks.Emma star Anya Taylor-Joy plays the lead in The Queen’s Grambit, brought to the small screen by Scott Frank.The show has gripped viewers and has quickly gained somewhat of a cult following.The series is in fact based on a book of the same name by Walter Tevis – which is bad news for fans wanting a second series.Netflix is yet to confirm a second series, which is hardly surprising as the entire plot is covered in the first drop of episodes.Tevis reportedly based the book’s chess scenes on his own experience as a class C player, and he relied on help National Master Bruce Pandolfini – who also served as a chess consultant

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The Queen's Gambit has an unexpected Heath Ledger connection

10 Things I Hate About You to Brokeback Mountain to The Dark Knight, Heath Ledger cemented himself as a favourite with both critics and the public over the course of his career, which was cut short by his unexpected and tragic death in 2008.Had Ledger still been with us today, he would undoubtedly have continued to star in and create work that captured the world's imagination. One such project that he had his eye on was The Queen's Gambit, Walter Tevis's novel about a chess prodigy who also struggles with drug and alcohol addiction.

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Anya Taylor-Joy and 'The Queen's Gambit' Cast on the Series' "Beautiful" Message About Family

Netflix's new limited series The Queen's Gambit sees Anya Taylor-Joy (The New Mutants, Emma) star as Beth Harmon, a chess prodigy with a traumatic past, coming of age in the early 1960s. The adaptation of Walter Tevis' 1983 novel explores the true cost of genius, as well as what it means to be lonely.

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