Producers Scott Frank and William Horberg of The Queen’s Gambit discuss why Season 2 isn’t happening while hinting at their intentions to continue working together.
The Queen’s Gambit executive producers Scott Frank and William Horberg have confirmed that the second season of their popular Netflix series will not be produced.
The multi-awarded TV show
The Queen’s Gambit, which was created by Frank and Allan Scott and based on Walter Tevis’ 1983 book of the same name, won eleven Emmys at the 73rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series.
“I feel like we told the narrative we intended to tell,” Frank remarked after the ceremony to Deadline, “and I fear — or, to put it another way, I’m afraid that if we attempt to tell more, we’ll destroy what we’ve already done.”
Anya Taylor-Joy also won an Emmy for her role as Beth Harmon in The Queen’s Gambit, in which she battled her way to the top of the male-dominated world of professional chess in the 1950s and 1960s while fighting addiction and mental trauma from her dark background.
Netflix claimed four weeks after the show’s premiere in 2020 that it was its most-watched scripted miniseries to date, with 62 million households tuning in.
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Horberg continued, “We’re all going to keep working together,” to which Taylor-Joy replied, “Absolutely.” “We’ll attempt to find another tale to tell with the same enthusiasm and team of great artists,” Horberg said.
Critical acclaim for supporting roles
Moses Ingram and Marielle Heller, who played Beth’s childhood friend Jolene and Beth’s adoptive mother-turned-manager Alma Wheatley, respectively, earned a lot of critical acclaim for their supporting roles.
Taylor-Joy revealed earlier this year that she and the show’s creators “never considered about” creating a second season of The Queen’s Gambit while it was in production.
“It would be fascinating to see how Beth would be as a mother, now that she’s clean and more aware of the demons that drag her down,” she said if the program were to return in any manner.
In the near future, Taylor-Joy will be seen in Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho, a horror/thriller that just debuted at film festivals and will be released in theaters on October 29.
Ingram also appears in Joel Coen’s rendition of William Shakespeare’s tragedy, The Tragedy of Macbeth, which will debut at the New York Film Festival on Sept. 24.
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