Production company New Regency has purchased the rights to produce “Runner, Runner,” a new dramatic thriller penned by Rounders writers Brian Koppelman and David Levien, according to a report in Variety magazine.
“The Lincoln Lawyer” Director Brad Furman is on-board and reportedly Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake are tipped to star in the film set “in a $30 billion world of illegal online gambling.”
Although no additional details on the project are available, given the projects title and writers’ history it is safe to assume online poker plays a central role.
Online poker fans will have fingers crossed that the writing duo can repeat the performance of Rounders. Although not a box-office success, the film built a cult following and is credited for fueling the original poker boom in the United States and laying the groundwork for the later Moneymaker online poker boom.
