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Idris Elba is in talks to star in writer/director Aaron Sorkin’s directorial debut “Molly’s Game”, opposite Jessica Chastain who is also in negotiations for a lead role.
The film follows Molly Bloom (Chastain) who, after failing to make the Olympic team, decided to take a year off before law school and get a job as a waitress in Los Angeles. “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” (via Variety).
Sorkin’s script is based on Bloom’s memoir.
Producers are Mark Gordon and Amy Pascal.
