Poster And Peek: "The Gambler" Redux

The teaser poster and a RED BAND trailer have been released for the long gestating remake of the James Caan-led 1974 crime drama "The Gambler" is here.

The original followed a college professor (Caan) whose gambling addiction overcomes him even after he gets in big trouble with the wrong guys.

Martin Scorsese was once attached to call action and then "The Hangover" and "Old School" director Todd Phillips circled the picture. Now "Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes" director Rupert Wyatt helmed the project from a script by William Monahan ("The Departed").

Leland Orser plays Jones, a resentful English professor at UCLA who is the superior of Mark Wahlberg's lead character Brie Larson is Wahlberg's girlfriend. Jessica Lange will play his his rich mother John Goodman plays a Jewish loan shark.Emory Cohen, who played Bradley Cooper’s son in The Place Beyond the Pines plays one of the professor's students and a star on the Tennis Team
Michael K. Williams also stars.

Irwin Winkler, who produced the original, Robert Chartoff, and Stephen Levinson will produce the update.

James Toback, who wrote the original screenplay and based it on his real life addiction to gambling, has been outspoken about his displeasure over the remake. He thinks it's a terrible idea.

"The Gambler" will open in limited release on December 19th.

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