The Queen’s Gambit is a 2020 American coming-of-age period drama streaming television miniseries based on Walter Tevis’s 1983 novel of the same name. The story is about an orphaned chess prodigy on her rise to becoming the world’s greatest chess player while struggling with emotional problems and drug and alcohol dependency. It has received critical acclaim for Anya Taylor-Joy’s performance as Beth Harmon as well as for the cinematography and production values.
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The Queen’s Gambit is a 2020 American coming-of-age period drama streaming television miniseries based on Walter Tevis’s 1983 novel of the same name. The story is about an orphaned chess prodigy on her rise to becoming the world’s greatest chess player while struggling with emotional problems and drug and alcohol dependency. The series’ title refers to a chess opening of thesame name. It has received critical acclaim for Anya Taylor-Joy’s performance as Beth Harmon as well as for the cinematography and production values. It is credited with spurring a resurgence of public interest in the game and is the most-watched scripted series on Netflix in the last four weeks of its release. It was released on October 23, 2020, with seven episodes instead of the original six-episode order. Former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov and chess coach Bruce Pandolfini acted as consultants. Bill Camp, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Harry Melling and Marielle Heller were cast in starring roles. In January 2020, it was reported Moses Ingram had joined the cast of the series.
Principal photography began in August 2019 in Berlin, including the Berlin Zoo, Humstadt-Palast and the Friedrich K International, Berlin. The musical score was composed by Carlos Rafael Rivera, but in the end, Frank decided to go with a full orchestral score for more instrumentation and color. On October 28, 2020 it was announced the series was the most watched series of the day on Netflix. On November 23, 2018, Netflix announced it was the second most watched scripted series of all time. It became the first scripted series in the company’s history to be watched more than 10,000 times in the first two weeks of the premiere. The show is set in the mid-1950s and proceeds into the 1960s, with most of the filming taking place in Las Vegas, Cincinnati, Mexico City, Moscow, Moscow and Paris. It also filmed in Berlin because of how interiors found there could stand in for a large number of the show’s locations, including Las Vegas and Cincinnati.
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