The series
Lady's Gambit
, based on the 1983 novel of the same title by Walter Tevis, has emerged as one of the television phenomena of 2020. Its creator, Scott Frank, who wrote, produced and directed the seven episodes of the based fiction In the story of a young chess prodigy (played by Anya Taylor-Joy) in the fifties and sixties, he will base his next three projects again on two novels, two with black genre dyes from the thirties and one on science fiction .
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Frank, who before the popular triumph of the Netflix series was already established in the film and television industry with series such as
Godless
and films such as
Logan
or
A Very Dangerous Romance
(for both he was a candidate for the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay), works in serializing the character Sam Spade, created almost a century ago by the writer Dashiell Hammett in
The Maltese Falcon
(1930).
The idea of the producer and screenwriter is for British actor Clive Owen to play the detective made famous in his day by Humphrey Bogart in a fiction set in six episodes.
“I got the rights through two wonderful producers who called me to offer it to me.
I told them at the beginning that no, it was a bit old for me.
The minute I hung up, I had an idea.
What if I make an older Spade, when he's past 60?
What if I place him instead of in San Francisco in the south of France, where he lives retired, in the sixties? "Frank explained on Monday in the publication
The Playlist
, where he also told that he works on the project with the creator of the
Oz
series
, Tom Fontana.
Another project, this movie, will reunite Frank with Taylor-Joy.
It will be with the adaptation of the novel
Laughter in the dark
, published by Vladimir Nabokov in 1932, which tells the future of a love triangle full of cruelty set in the art world.
The Argentine-British actress is already working on another television project, this time for the BBC.
The British public channel is preparing for this Christmas a special one-hour broadcast with a version of
Cinderella
with each interpreter at home for the health security measures due to the pandemic and with illustrations created by cartoonist Quentin Blake (the artist who collaborated with Roald Dahl on his children's books).
Taylor-Joy will be the protagonist of this story, directed by Richard Curtis (
Love Actually
), and will be accompanied by Tom Hollander, Helena Bonham Carter and Olivia Colman (Queen Elizabeth II in
The Crown
this season, another of the Netflix hits) , like the fairy godmother.
Frank is also working on the adaptation of another novel, this science fiction novel,
Rakhat
(
The Sparrow
), published in 1996 by Mary Doria Russell, about Jesuit priests who make contact with extraterrestrial life and which will be directed by Johan Renck (
Chernobyl
).
Trailer for 'Lady's Gambit'.
