Hot on the heels of their Showtime series The Curse—which is just revving up what’ll likely be a pretty extensive Emmys campaign—Nathan Fielder and Emma Stone are reportedly close to lining up their next project together. THR reports tonight that A24 is on the verge of securing the film rights to Checkmate, a book proposal about a high-profile chess-cheating scandal by writer Ben Mezrich, who previously penned the books that ended up generating The Social Network and last year’s Dumb Money.... Read this story
