Matt Damon is all in on eager to make a sequel to his 1998 poker-focused drama function Rounders.
The actor was a visitor on Roku Channel‘s The Wealthy Eisen Present on Wednesday, the place the host requested Damon if there are any motion pictures of his personal that might get sequels. Damon famous that Actors Fairness, the manufacturing firm that he based with Ben Affleck, is behind the forthcoming The Accountant 2, which stars Affleck. However concerning his personal initiatives, Damon stated he would like to revisit director John Dahl’s Rounders, which targeted on underground, high-stakes poker tournaments and co-starred Edward Norton, John Turturro, John Malkovich and Gretchen Mol.
“The one which we’ve been speaking about for years — and I simply noticed Edward Norton a couple of weeks in the past, [and] all of us wish to do it — is a second Rounders film,” Damon stated. “As a result of a lot has occurred in that poker world within the final 25 years, it could be enjoyable to meet up with these guys.”
Sadly, the hang-up seems to be coping with rights points for the film that Miramax Movies launched on Sept. 11, 1998. “You’ve received to determine the chain of title and who owns it, and everyone’s received their hand within the pot,” the star stated. “So we’ve received to determine a solution to make a deal that is smart for everyone, significantly the people who find themselves going to make the film as a result of at Artists Fairness, that’s who we care about, are the forged and crew. We’re attempting to determine that out as a result of I feel we’d all like to try this.”
Damon recalled having chatted 10 or 15 years in the past with the movie’s screenwriters David Levien and Brian Koppelman, who would go on to create the Showtime collection Billions, and that the scribes had an thought in thoughts for a follow-up. Nevertheless, Damon feels that the methods during which the real-life poker scene has developed over latest years would imply a sequel idea might use a little bit of a refresh.
“What that they had 10 years in the past, I assumed, was implausible, and I’m certain they might increase and roll with the occasions and replace it to the place we’re as we speak and make one thing nice,” he continued.
Damon — who’s at present selling his position in Apple’s The Instigators — identified that, though Rounders underperformed on the field workplace in its day, it has extra not too long ago cultivated a faithful fan base.
“That’s a type of motion pictures that, it got here out and didn’t do properly,” he stated. “When it got here out, it type of bombed, after which it received found by individuals later. When that occurs, individuals really feel a way of possession, like, ‘Hey, that’s my film. I used to be a champion of that film even when nobody else was.’ So it looks like there’s lots of good will behind it. However we gotta determine if we will make it occur.”
