Netflix’s award-winning series starring Anya Taylor-Joy as an orphaned chess prodigy just might be the next musical hit. The theatrical stage rights to Walter Tevis’s 1983 novel on which the limited series is based have been acquired by Level Forward.
Tevis, who also wrote The Hustler and The Man Who Fell To Earth, has seen both of those works turned into films. The Man Who Fell To Earth was also adapted into a stage musical.
Tevis died in 1984. The popularity of the series pushed Tevis’s novel onto the New York Times’ bestseller list, 37 years after its first publication.
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