The Queen’s Gambit - How to create Netflix’s most-watched TV show - 10 lessons from the screenplay

In this Screenwriting Interview we go behind the scenes of the writing process from the series creator and screenwriter Scott Frank and lead actress Anya Taylor-Joy. The Queens Gambit is now Netflix’s most-watched scripted limited series, with 62 million households watching in its first 28 days.♟👏🏼 • Based on Walter Tevis’ 1983 book about a young chess prodigy – TQG follows Beth Harmon, an orphan-turned-chess prodigy who learns the game from the janitor in her orphanage. • Anya Taylor Joy shines in this seven-episode mini series. What are your thoughts on this show? 💭📺 Here are 10 screenwriting tips you can learn from The Queen’s Gambit: 0:00 - Intro 1:17 - 01 - “The Queen’s Gambit was a book I just loved and I didn’t think anybody would make it. I was shocked that Netflix was dumb enough to do it.” - Write what you love, you never know what will be successful. 2:13 - 02 - It took 30 years, 9 rewrites, and series of directors interested to get The Queen’s Gambit finally made. If you love the material n