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Originally Posted by bobbyw8469
If anyone hasn't seen this show, I highly recommend it. Watched it out of the blue before I read any reviews. Was pleasantly surprised.
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Agreed, one of my top 10 books of all-time. Loved the casting and it's a gorgeous film aesthetically. I didn't even mind the few times they went off script from the book. I was excited a couple years ago when it was going to be a movie. Heath Ledger purchased the rights and was going to make his debut as a director with Ellen Page in the lead role. This was right before he passed away so the project went back in the pile of to-dos, I guess. I think it works better as a series, 7 hrs to tell a story vs. 2 hrs.
Oh, and Bruce Pandolfini and Garry Kasparov were technical consultants on the series if you're concerned about the accuracy of the chess.