Here’s the first trailer for Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit, an upcoming series starring Anya Taylor-Joy and based on the novel by Walter Tevis. The Netflix limited series drama is a coming-of-age story that explores the true cost of genius and will land on the screen.
The official synopsis is as follows: 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. The series is directed and written by two-time Academy Award nominee Scott Frank and executive produced by Frank, William Horberg and Allan Scott, who also co-created the series. THE QUEEN’S GAMBIT stars Anya Taylor-Joy, Marielle Heller, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Moses Ingram, Harry Melling and Bill Camp.
The series is directed by Scott Frank and co-stars Moses Ingram, Bill Camp, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Marielle Heller, Harry Melling, and Rebecca Root. The Queen’s Gambit lands on Netflix on 23rd October. Here’s the trailer.
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