The Queen’s Gambit was one of many nice Netflix Originals of 2020 and following the pattern of different huge Netflix Originals, Netflix has uploaded a making-of documentary to the service entitled “Creating The Queen’s Gambit”.
The sequence, which launched on Netflix globally on October 23rd in 2020, has gone onto develop into Netflix’s biggest limited series ever and is cited in a normal rise in curiosity in chess in latest months.
Though a second season is very unlikely (though anticipate Netflix to fee extra of Scott Franks’s work sooner or later) Netflix has now given us a bonus deal with within the type of a 15-minute making-of documentary.
Regardless of the disappointing low runtime, the doc packs plenty of punch and covers the sequence growth with interviews with Scott Frank and Allan Scott (who each served because the showrunners) in addition to Anya Taylor-Pleasure who performed the function of Beth Harmon.
Past these interviews, plenty of different manufacturing workers give their ideas on the sequence together with Sabine Schaaf who served as set decorator, Uli Hanisch as manufacturing designer, and Alex Lambriev as prop grasp.
It additionally options testimony from chess consultants resembling Bruce Pandolfini.
Right here’s how Netflix describes the doc:
“A captivating character. Beautiful units. A wig for each period. The celebrities, creators and crew reveal how the hit sequence a couple of chess prodigy got here to life.”
For die-hard followers of the sequence, the probabilities are you’ve already watched this documentary. It was uploaded to Netflix’s Movie Membership YouTube channel on December 10th and has collected 1.865M views so far. It stays accessible there even with its inclusion on Netflix so for those who’ve since dropped your subscription, you’ll be able to nonetheless watch it.
Talking of Netflix’s Movie Membership channel, in addition they have another goodies for The Queen’s Gambit followers. That features your typical listicles resembling 10 things you missed and what to watch next.
Creating The Queen’s Gambit could be discovered on Netflix globally both by looking out or using this direct link.
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