The Queen’s Gambit has a surprising connection to Heath Ledger
said: ‘My beautiful boy, so loving, so talented, so independent, so caring, so young… no more chess games mate… this is it, couldn’t beat you anyway!’Heath was reportedly working on the project at the time of his sad passing with Allan Shiach (pen name Allan Scott) and had lined up Ellen Page for the lead.An interview Shiach gave the Independent in 2008 following Heath’s death has resurfaced since the series became such a hit and the film adaptation would have been Heath’s directorial debut.Shiach recalled how about a year after writing the script, he was approached by three people about turning it into a film but it was Ledger who won him over.‘He was passionate about it; he was an intense, interested young man and I was drawn to him