Netflix’s “The Queen’s Gambit” is the colorful 1980s fave, the Rubik’s Cube. Hyde Park Entertainment Group, helmed by prolific action flick producer Ashok Amritraj, 64, and Endeavor Content have teamed up to produce a feature film based on the three-by-three brain teaser, according to Variety.
Priya Amritraj, Amritraj’s daughter and Addison Mehr are signed up to executive produce the movie, which does not yet have a public release date.
The movie follows the success of Netflix’s smash series starring Anya-Taylor Joy as checkmate prodigy Beth Harmon, which set off a surge in online chess games and a run on old-school playing boards.
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