'It turns out that actors love playing cards-we got pretty much everybody we wanted to get into that movie.'
They said they had this guy called Matt Damon.' Off the back of that I met with Brian and David. “So I read it and really liked the script. In the ensuing interview, he discussed the movie's longevity, what it was like working with Johnny Chan, and how the movie got made in the first place.ĭahl even weighs in on the possibility of a sequel. Rounders was the first length of fuse laid down for the poker boom and provided a fillip for hundreds of professional poker careers (not to mention the odd poker writer).įor the 25th Anniversary of the movie, John Dahl, the director of Rounders, hopped on a Zoom call with PokerNews. When it came out in 1998, Rounders was, at best, a moderate box office success, but the box office fails to give you any sense of the movie’s cultural impact on the poker community. That included five things you didn’t know about the movie, an interview with Johnny Chan, and remembering the time Doyle Brunson busted Matt Damon from the 1998 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. Last month, PokerNews spent a significant amount of time celebrating the 25th anniversary of the beloved poker movie Rounders.
