Netflix's 'The Queen's Gambit' getting stage musical adaptation

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The Queen’s Gambit is in development following the success of the award-winning Netflix series.Level Forward, the entertainment company behind Alanis Morisette jukebox musical Jagged Little Pill, has bought the rights to the work.

The Queen's Gambit may be headed to the stage. Production company Level Forward has acquired theatrical stage rights to Walter Tevis' novel about a chess prodigy, which is also the basis for Netflix's limited series.

Netflix’s award-winning series starring Anya Taylor-Joy as an orphaned chess prodigy just might be the next musical hit.

The Queen’s Gambit, the Walter Tevis novel recently adapted as the hit Netflix miniseries, could be headed to Broadway as a musical.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and Media“The Queen’s Gambit,” the story of a chess prodigy that was streaming smash for Netflix, may become a musical. Level Forward, has acquired the theatrical stage rights to Walter Tevis’ novel “The Queen’s Gambit,” which served as the basis for the miniseries.

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