Matt Damon is actually done in on really wanting to create a part two to his 1998 poker-focused dramatization component Rounders.
The star attended on Roku Stations‘s The Rich Eisen Show on Wednesday, where the host asked Damon if there are any movies of his own that could get sequels. Damon noted that Actors Equity, the production company that he founded with Ben Affleck, is behind the forthcoming The Accountant 2, which stars Affleck. But regarding his own projects, Damon said he would love to revisit director John Dahl’ s Rounders, which concentrated on underground, high-stakes online poker events as well as co-starred Edward Norton, John Turturro, John Malkovich as well as Gretchen Mol.
“The one that we’ve been talking about for years — and I just saw Edward Norton a few weeks ago, [and] all of us want to do it — is a second Rounders movie,” Damon claimed.“Because so much has happened in that poker world in the last 25 years, it would be fun to catch up with those guys.”
Regrettably, the problem seems to be actually managing civil rights concerns for the film that Miramax Movies discharged on Sept. 11, 1998. “You’ve got to figure out the chain of title and who owns it, and everybody’s got their hand in the pot,” the celebrity claimed. “So we’ve got to figure out a way to make a deal that makes sense for everybody, particularly the people who are going to make the movie because at Artists Equity, that’s who we care about, are the cast and crew. We’re trying to figure that out because I think we’d all like to do that.”
Damon recollected having actually talked 10 or even 15 years ago along with the movie’s film writers David Levien as well as Brian Koppelman, that will happen to make the Outset set Billions, which the secretaries possessed a concept in thoughts for a consequence. Nonetheless, Damon experiences that the methods which the real-life online poker act has actually advanced over latest years will suggest a part two idea can make use of a little of a refresh.
“What they had 10 years ago, I thought, was fantastic, and I’m sure they could augment and roll with the times and update it to where we are today and make something great,” he proceeded.
Damon– that is actually presently advertising his job in Apple’s The Provocateurs– indicated that, although Rounders underperformed at package workplace in its own time, it has actually even more just recently promoted a committed enthusiast center.
“That’s one of those movies that, it came out and didn’t do well,” he claimed. “When it came out, it kind of bombed, and then it got discovered by people later. When that happens, people feel a sense of ownership, like, ‘Hey, that’s my movie. I was a champion of that movie even when no one else was.’ So it feels like there’s a lot of good will behind it. But we gotta figure out if we can make it happen.”
