Great Trailer For Oscar Isaac's Upcoming Gambling Drama THE CARD COUNTER
Focus Features has released the first official trailer for director Paul Schrader's new film The Card Counter. The film has an impressive cast that includes Oscar Isaac, Tiffany Haddish, Tye Sheridan, and Willem Dafoe.
The Card Counter looks like a great movie and the trailer gives us a little taste of the kind of intensity that we can expect from the movie. I enjoy films that are set in the world of gambling and I definitely won’t be missing this one!
The film follows William Tell (Isaac), “a gambler and former serviceman who sets out to reform a young man seeking revenge on a mutual enemy. Tell just wants to play cards. His spartan existence on the casino trail is shattered when he is approached by Cirk (Sheridan), a vulnerable and angry young man seeking help to execute his plan for revenge on a colonel. Tell sees a chance at redemption through his relationship with Cirk. Gaining backing from mysterious gambling financier La Linda, Tell takes Cirk with him on the road, going from casino to casino until the unlikely trio set their sights on winning the World Series of poker in Las Vegas. But keeping Cirk on the straight-and-narrow proves impossible, dragging Tell back into the darkness of his past.”
Paul Schrader is the director of films such as Blue Collar, Hardcore, American Gigolo, Cat People, Light of Day, The Comfort of Strangers, Light Sleeper, Forever Mine, Auto Focus, Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist, The Walker, Adam Resurrected, The Canyons, The Dying of the Light, Dog Eat Dog, and First Reformed.
Martin Scorsese is a producer on the film and Focus Features will release it in select US theaters on September 10th, 2021.