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Netflix's 'The Queen's Gambit' getting adapted into a stage musical ANI | Updated: Mar 09, 2021 11:49 IST Washington [US], March 9 (ANI): What's in store for the award-winning Netflix series 'The Queen's Gambit'? A musical. The hit series may become a musical as production company Level Forward has acquired theatrical stage rights to Walter Tevis' book 'The Queen's Gambit', which served as the basis for the miniseries. As per Variety, Tevis also wrote 'The Hustler' and 'The Man Who Fell to Earth', both of which became films and, in the case of 'The Man W...

March 9th, 2021 By David Knox 1 commentFiled under: Streaming, Not quite The Queen’s Gambit is in the pipeline. Deadline reports US entertainment company Level Forward has the acquired theatrical stage rights to the Walter Tevis novel, on which the Netflix series is based. “It is a privilege for Level Forward to lead the charge of bringing The Queen’s Gambit to the stage through the beloved and enduring craft of musical theater,” said Level Forward CEO Adrienne Becker and Producer Julia Dunetz. “Told through a brave and fresh point of view, audiences are already sharing in the fr...

The popular Netflix series is being turned into a stage musical.

Netflix series The Queen's Gambit is set to be turned into a stage musical after the Anya Taylor-Joy chess show's huge success.

By Paul Fletcher It's been a big few months for The Queen's Gambit. The TV show adaptation of Walter Tevis' 1983 novel, starring Anya Taylor-Joy as fictional chess prodigy Beth Harmon, hit Netflix in October and has been a streaming sensation ever since. The Queen's Gambitcollected two Golden Globe Awards last month— Best Limited Series and Best Actress in a Limited Series — and picked up two similar awards at the Critics' Choice Awards on Sunday. But now that it has succeeded as TV, The Queen's Gambitis next headed for the stage. Entertainment company Level Forward announced Monday that...