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I think aside from the fact that they do drug the girls - there is that - they - you know, to keep them compliant, they - if anything, they're just sort of rigid, not evil, and very religious. Ratched, right? But it's not quite that, is it?įRANK: No. VENUGOPAL: We expect the orphanage to be run by monsters - Ms. UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #1: (As character) Poor dear. UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #3: (As character) I would guess that, like most men who live around there, he was yet another victim of a carefree life. UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #1: (As character) It doesn't say. UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #2: (As character) And the father? Her mother, Alice Harmon, was pronounced dead at the scene. Elizabeth, 9 years old, was left without family by the crash. UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #1: (As character) Orphaned by yesterday's collision on New Circle Road, Elizabeth Harmon surveys a troubled future. #REAL MEN OF GENIUS GENERATOR TV#(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT") Here we encounter the administrators of the orphanage as they review her file before meeting her. VENUGOPAL: Let's play a clip from the first episode, when young Beth, Elizabeth, is being brought to the orphanage where she's going to spend several years of her life. Is she going to win? Is she not going to win? You know, oh, she wins - that sort of thing - and whereas if you can do something longer with it, it can be about so much more. #REAL MEN OF GENIUS GENERATOR MOVIE#And I think everybody faced the same battle, which is when you reduce the novel to a screenplay - just an hour-and-a-half, two-hour movie - it really becomes a sports movie, period. Heath Ledger was going to do it as his directorial debut before he died. There were all sorts of people who flirted with it over the years. #REAL MEN OF GENIUS GENERATOR SERIES#And then a series of directors came in over the years - Michael Apted, Tom Tykwer. When the book came out in 1983, I think it was Bernardo Bertolucci who wanted to do it. VENUGOPAL: How does a project like this take decades to make?įRANK: Well, I think it's not obvious. And this felt like the ultimate expression of that theme. And so it really became - it sort of became mine in a way because I'd always been fascinated since my very first script, "Little Man Tate," with sort of the cost of genius. Even though it was about chess, it just felt like a movie to me. And for some reason, when I read it, bizarrely, I thought it was cinematic. And you - even if you don't know a wit about chess, you can't put the book down. And it reads - it's a real page-turner, and it almost reads like a thriller in many ways. ![]() VENUGOPAL: What drew you to this story in the first place?įRANK: Well, the novel is fantastic. SCOTT FRANK: Thank you so much for having me. He's written the screenplays for "Minority Report," "Get Shorty" and "Wolverine." He also received Oscar nominations for writing "Out Of Sight" and the "X-Men" film "Logan." He also created the TV series "Godless." ![]() It's based on a 1983 novel by Walter Tevis, and it was brought to the screen by our guest, Scott Frank. The series, starring actress Anya Taylor-Joy, has also sparked a boom in the sale of chess sets. ![]() Since it launched in October on Netflix, "The Queen's Gambit" has hit the streaming services' number one spot in 63 countries and has been downloaded by more than 62 million households. Her gift and her addiction to prescription drugs follows her out of the orphanage and on a path to the heights of international chess in the 1960s and '70s. Here's Arun.ĪRUN VENUGOPAL, BYLINE: Over the course of seven episodes, "The Queen's Gambit" tells the tale of Elizabeth Harmon, a young girl who is orphaned and who discovers by and by that she is also extraordinarily gifted at the game of chess. He spoke with FRESH AIR guest interviewer Arun Venugopal, who's a host and senior producer at WNYC in New York. Our guest Scott Frank is the cocreator, executive producer and director of the Netflix limited series "The Queen's Gambit," which was one of the most watched shows of the year. ![]()
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