Affleck & Timberlake Go All In For "Runner, Runner" Peek

Here's your first look at the online gambling thriller "Runner, Runner".

 

 

In the film Justin Timberlake stars as a Princeton University student who gets pulled into the world of online gambling in order to help bankroll his expensive education. After he loses money he flies to Costa Rica hoping to reclaim his losses from the site's billionaire owner (Ben Affleck) and ends up becoming the corrupt CEO's right-hand man.

Broadway actor Michael Esper will play a tattooed man who is immersed in online gaming and works as an affiliate for the poker company at the center of the story.

Anthony Mackie is to play an FBI agent who has spent years trying to bring down Affleck's character and sees Timberlake as a way in. Project X co-star Oliver Cooper will play an Ivy League computer nerd who gets hired along with Timberlake's character. Gemma Arterton plays JT's love interest. Ben Schwartz will play Timberlake’s friend.

Brad Furman ("The Lincoln Lawyer") will direct from a script by "Rounders" scribes Brian Koppelman and David Levien.

Koppelman, Levien, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Davisson Killoran, Michael Shamberg, Stacey Sher and Scott Steindorff will produce the pic.

The pic is set to hit screens on September 27th 2013.



This looks pretty much like it's gonna be a by the numbers outing with some over the top cheesiness sprinkled on top for good measure,,,JT and Ben deserve better.