Robert Luketic wrapped 21, the big-screen adaptation of Ben Mezrich’s 2002 book, Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas For Millions, in April. Kevin Spacey and Dana Brunetti – whose Trigger Street Productions originally optioned the book and set it up at MGM – produce with Michael de Luca for Sony.
Sandy Isaac is adapting Mike Lupica’s novel, BUMP & RUN, about a Vegas casino host’s pursuit of a Super Borl win for an NFL football team he inherits from his father, for Universal.
John Stockwell recently handed in his re-write of CHASING THE WHALE, the real-life story of Vegas high roller Mark Gore, to producers Gil Netter and Wayne Rice. Stockwell is attached to direct the New Line project, wich was previously set up with Regency and Fox.
ONE OF A KIND is another true story book adaptation – this one about the rise, fall and untimely death of poker phenomenon Stuey Unger – and is set up at Warner Bros. for Initial Entertainment to produce.
From ScriptShark.com, a part of Baseline StudioSystems.
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