Laughter in the Dark

[Navjot Singh]

'The Queen's Gambit' star Anya Taylor-Joy and co-creator Scott Frank reuniting for new project

'The Queen's Gambit' co-creator Scott Frank is developing an adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's novel 'Laughter in the Dark' with star Anya Taylor-Joy. Frank also has plans for a TV series based on Sam Spade, the detective played by Humphrey Bogart in 1941's The Maltese Falcon.

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The writer-director is currently at work on an adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's novel Laughter in the Dark that will reunite him with star Anya Taylor-Joy.

Laughter in the Dark, first published in 1932, follows a middle-aged art critic, Albert Albinus, as he falls in love with a 17-year-old girl named Margot who uses him to realize her ambition of becoming a movie star. What follows is described as an "ironic novel of desire, deceit, and deception, a curious romance set in the film world of Berlin in the 1930s."