"The Queen's Gambit" producers Allan Scott and Bill Horberg
When Allan Scott bought the rights to the novel 鈥淭he Queen鈥檚 Gambit鈥�, he never imagined it would take almost 30 years to get it made. With executive producer Bill Horberg.
When you fall in love with a project, stay with it 鈥� for as many years as necessary. Its time will come. When screenwriter Allan Scott acquired the film rights to the Walter Tevis novel 鈥淭he Queen鈥檚 Gambit鈥�, he couldn鈥檛 have imagined it would take almost 30 years to get that movie made. Allan, along with executive producer Bill Horberg, talk about their long road to turning the cult-favourite book into a Netflix phenomenon; the creative insights (and the key partner) that unblocked the path; and what they鈥檝e learned about staying the course when the world is telling you no.
Allan Scott is a screenwriter ("Don鈥檛 Look Now" by Nicolas Roeg, among many others), and the former chair of Macallan. Bill Horberg is the producer of "The Talented Mr. Ripley", "Searching for Bobby Fischer", "Cold Mountain" and many others, as well as an accomplished flutist.
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