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Gambit was scheduled for release on March 13, 2020, but development of the film was placed on hold due to the acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney. After taking over the film, Disney officially cancelled it in May 2019.
In November 2020, The Washington Post reported that the COVID-19 pandemic had already increased the public's interest in chess, but the popularity of The Queen's Gambit made it explode. [95] The New York Times compared the interest in chess to the "similar chess mania" after Bobby Fischer beat Boris Spassky to become world champion in 1972. [96]
Release date Title Notes January 17, 2020: Bad Boys for Life: co-production with 2.0 Entertainment, Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films and Overbrook Entertainment: January 23, 2020: The Magic Kids: Three Unlikely Heroes: German film; co-production with Rat Pack Filmproduktion and Westside Filmproduktion February 14, 2020: Fantasy Island
The film was re-slated for an October 2016 release date, [29] but had several delays as the studio wanted to get the script right and set a unique tone and the right voice. [ 30 ] [ 31 ] By July of the same year, Kinberg announced that the film's script was completed, with Doug Liman attached as director, after overseeing script re-writes, with ...
The public’s sudden interest in the cognitive board game was made popular solely thanks to the October-released Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit, and it’s been such a hit that chess sets ...
The Queen's Gambit is a 1983 American novel by Walter Tevis, exploring the life of fictional female chess prodigy Beth Harmon. A bildungsroman, or coming-of-age story, it covers themes of adoption, feminism, chess, drug addiction and alcoholism. The book was adapted for the 2020 Netflix miniseries of the same name.
It was originally intended for release in April 2018 but experienced several delays; it was released in 2020. [49] Taylor-Joy in 2021. Taylor-Joy starred in the Netflix miniseries The Queen's Gambit as Beth Harmon, an orphaned chess prodigy on her rise to the top of the chess world while struggling with drug and alcohol dependency. [50]
The score album was released on October 23, 2020 through Maisie Music Publishing label, coinciding with the release on Netflix. In addition to the 38-track score, an original song entitled "I Can't Remember Love" was composed for the series, performed by Anna Hauss and written by Robert Wienröder and William Horberg , the series' executive ...