‘The Queen’s Gambit’ Star Anya Taylor-Joy: ‘It’s Not About Chess, It’s About Loneliness And The Price Of Genius” – Contenders TV

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Producer William Horberg defined the meaning of tenacity during his appearance on the panel for the Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit at Deadline’s Contenders Television all-day award-season event.

The much-praised limited series has swept through just about every awards show it could win on its way to the Emmys. But if it seems like a slam dunk for that trophy, think again.“My partner Allan Scott got the rights to this book in the early ’90s and I joined him in about 2000, so it’s literally been a 30-year journey to get to the screen,” Horberg said. “A lot of that time was spent trying to make it as a feature film.

Allan had adapted the book and he had written a good screenplay, and there was always a lot of filmmaker interest in it, but we