More people want to play chess thanks to The Queen’s Gambit’s record-breaking success on Netflix
The Queen's Gambit has been a worldwide breakout success for Netflix, even encouraging more people to learn chess.
Heath Ledger was going to direct The Queen’s Gambit as a feature film before his death
The Queen's Gambit is currently one of Netflix's big breakouts as the limited series tells a brilliant story about the cost of genius. But this story was originally supposed to be told much earlier by a very fitting young talent.
Tread the line between genius and insanity in Netflix’s limited series The Queen’s Gambit
Netflix limited series drama The Queen’s Gambit is a coming-of-age story that explores the true cost of genius. Abandoned and entrusted to a Kentucky orphanage in the late 1950s, a young Beth Harmon (Anya Taylor-Joy) discovers an astonishing talent for chess while developing an addiction to tranquilizers provided by the state as a sedative for the children. Haunted by her personal demons and fueled by a cocktail of narcotics and obsession, Beth transforms into an impressively skilled and glamorous outcast while determined to conquer the traditional boundaries established in the male-dominated world of competitive chess.
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Screenwriter Scott Frank talks Logan’s ending, villain and why it’s better than The Wolverine
SPOILER WARNING! Logan screenwriter Scott Frank talks about how he and director James Mangold improved on their previous effort The Wolverine, and how they decided on film's villain and ending.
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Merry Snikt-mas! Here's another trailer for THE WOLVERINE
After waiting months and months, with nothing but teasers posters and set pics, we finally got our first trailer for James Mangold’s The Wolverine yesterday I don’t about you guys, but I m still struggling to get the blood back into my other extremities after being exposed to its awesomeness. But apparently it’s Snikt-mas time, as the gifts just don’t stop coming, …
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