Aaron Sorkin Set to Write High Stakes Poker Movie MOLLY'S GAME
I love a good gambling film, and it looks like we are going to have a great one coming from screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network, Steve Jobs). The movie will be based on the Molly Bloom memoir, Molly’s Game, and it’s an intriguing true story that is going to make for a great movie. Here’s a little background on Bloom thanks to Deadline:
“A world-class skier since she could walk, she is equal parts talented, brilliant and headstrong. By the time she was 21 she was ranked No. 3 in North America in moguls while maintaining a 3.9 GPA as a political science major in college. Stung after failing to make the Olympic team, she decided to take a year off before law school, get a waitressing job in Los Angeles and enjoy warm weather for a while. Through a bizarre set of circumstances as well as untapped entrepreneurial skills, she ended up making millions by running, for eight years, the most exclusive high-stakes poker game in the world. Her life came crashing down when 17 FBI agents armed with automatic weapons rang her doorbell.”
This sounds like it could be up there with the great gambling films that have been made over the years like Rounders, which is a favorite of mine. I also enjoy Sorkin’s style of writing, and it should work perfectly for this kind of movie, which is why he was obviously hired to work on it.
Here’s a description of the book:
Molly Bloom reveals how she built one of the most exclusive, high-stakes underground poker games in the world—an insider’s story of excess and danger, glamour and greed.
In the late 2000s, Molly Bloom, a twentysomething petite brunette from Loveland Colorado, ran the highest stakes, most exclusive poker game Hollywood had ever seen—she was its mistress, its lion tamer, its agent, and its oxygen. Everyone wanted in, few were invited to play.
Hundreds of millions of dollars were won and lost at her table. Molly’s game became the game for those in the know—celebrities, business moguls, and millionaires. Molly staged her games in palatial suites with beautiful views and exquisite amenities. She flew privately, dined at exclusive restaurants, hobnobbed with the heads of Hollywood studios, was courted by handsome leading men, and was privy to the world’s most delicious gossip, until it all came crashing down around her.
Molly’s Game is a behind the scenes look at Molly’s game, the life she created, the life she lost, and what she learned in the process.