The rights to the novel which inspired Netflix’s most watched limited series were acquired by a New York production company
It’s not quite checkmate on The Queen’s Gambit. The wildly popular Netflix mini-series about an orphan-turned-chess prodigy is set to become a stage musical, after stage rights to the 1983 novel of the same name by Walter Tevis were acquired by the entertainment company Level Forward, according to a press release on Monday.
It is unclear where the company, which has produced films on sexual harassment and assault including the feature and documentary On the Record, will adapt the musical. But given its recent history of Broadway productions, including a musical based on Alanis Morissette’s album Jagged Little Pill and the provocative Slave Play, by Jeremy O Harris, all signs point to New York.
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