The Game of Checkers: a pirated tweet made us believe in the return of the Netflix series

It’s a hit that fans of the Women’s game it would gladly have happened. While it had already been revealed in 2021 that the series was over, a tweet posted on actress Anya Taylor-Joy’s account seemed to announce his return for a season 2. Unfortunately, he was a fake ad, posted by a hacker.

A suspicious tweet

January 30, four words posted on the actress’s Twitter account Women’s game Have inflamed internet users. The post said: ” The Queen’s Gambit 2 “. The surprise was all the greater because the last tweets Posted on Anya Taylor-Joy’s account dates back to 2020.

Internet users naturally assumed that it was the announcement of the return of the Netflix phenomenonsacred “Best Miniseries at the 73rd Annual Emmy Awards. Gold, less than a quarter of an hour after its publication, the tweets was deleted. And for good reason: it was a false announcement, the actress’s Twitter account had been hacked.

Co-creator ‘terrified’ of screwing it up with a sequel

While in a few minutes there was the place of the pirates massively shared from Internet users, Anya Taylor-Joy was quick to post to history on his Instagram account for deny this information : ” My Twitter has been hacked. I apologize for these inconveniences, it’s NOT me! » Currently, the Twitter account of the actress with 300,000 subscribers seems to still be controlled by the pirate. In an effort to protect users from scams posted by the latter, the profile is set to private.

So, there’s no question: the seven episodes of Women’s gameadapted from the novel by Walter Tevis, I won’t know right away. But that may not be bad news after all: in the columns of Expirationseries co-creator, Scott Frank said in September 2021: ” I feel like we’ve told the story we wanted to tell, and I’m terrified that if we try to do more, we’ll screw it up.. »

For the more nostalgic, The women’s game is still available on Netflix.

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