Damon says plans for a sequel are still tied up in legal wrangling, but he believes this can be overcome.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have to figure out the chain of title, who owns it — and everybody\u2019s got their hands in the pot,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
We have to figure out a deal that makes sense for everybody, particularly the people who are going to make the movie \u2013 that\u2019s the artists\u2019 equity, that\u2019s who we care about, the cast and crew. And so, we\u2019re trying to figure that out because I think we\u2019d all like to do that.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Damon added that “Rounders” writers David Levien and Brian Koppelman had a script for a sequel ready around 10 years ago, which he described as \u201cfantastic\u201d and \u201ca movie ready to go,\u201d but it never got off the ground.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow there’s been another whole change in the poker world since then \u2026 I’m sure they could augment and roll with the times and update [the script] to where we are today and make something great,” Damon said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Matt Damon says he\u2019s desperate to make a follow-up to the 1998 cult poker movie “Rounders.” Speaking on the “Rich Eisen Show” this week, the Hollywood star said that so much has happened in the poker world over the quarter century since the first movie, it’s screaming out for a sequel. What\u2019s more, many of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":326901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3313,11,83771],"tags":[91911,91912,83750,91908,91910,91909],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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