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Noted screenwriter Aaron Sorkin makes his directorial debut with star-studded, dialogue-rich, true-crime drama about the mother of all gambling dens by John Hiscock HIGH 24 FILMJOURNAL.COM / JANUARY <strong>2018</strong> 016-057.indd 24 12/19/17 2:14 PM
Michael Gibson © 2017 STX Financing, LLC. Jessica Chastain in Molly’s Game, directed by Aaron Sorkin (inset). © 2017 STX Financing, LLC. All rights reserved. It’s a highly potent combination: the Oscar-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin directing his first movie and the twice Oscar-nominated actress Jessica Chastain starring in it. The result is STX Entertainment’s Molly’s Game, based on the true story of Molly Bloom, a charismatic young Olympic-hopeful skier who, after a devastating injury, took a job running the world’s most exclusive high-stakes underground poker game, where the players included Hollywood royalty, sports stars and business titans. Its path to the screen started with a book written by Bloom, whose winning streak had come to a grinding halt when she become entangled with Russian mobsters and was arrested by the FBI. Sorkin was initially reluctant to meet Molly, nicknamed “the Poker Princess” by the tabloids, and did so solely as a favor to an entertainment lawyer he knew. “I was not expecting to be impressed. I thought I was going to be meeting a woman who was cashing in on her decade-long brush with celebrity and that’s not something I like,” he recalls during a conversation in a beachfront hotel in Santa Monica. Calif. “I don’t like gossip, I think it’s bad for all of us. And I certainly don’t like gossip for money. So I went to this meeting as a courtesy.” Chastain with co-stars Kevin Costner and Idris Elba. But ten minutes into their first meeting, which would be followed by many others, Sorkin knew he wanted to write her story and include many of the facts she had omitted from the book. “Boy, did I want to write it” he says. “This was like a blind date that you are not looking forward to, but you leave knowing that this is going to be the person you are going to spend the rest of your life with. Obviously I am not talking about Molly the person, but Molly the story. It was love at first sight and that had only happened once before, when I was having lunch with Stacey Snider, who was then head of DreamWorks, and she asked me if I’d heard about two guys claiming that Mark Zuckerberg didn’t invent Facebook and that it was them. An hour after that, my Linda Källérus © 2017 STX Financing, LLC. Michael Gibson © 2017 STX Financing, LLC. STAKES JANUARY <strong>2018</strong> / FILMJOURNAL.COM 25 016-057.indd 25 12/19/17 2:14 PM
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