The plot of the story is based on an unpaid poker debt, but the movie is also going to have everything that you can expect from a Steven Segal movie – fights, guns and attractive women.
The protagonist, Jack Daniel (played by George Eads) has trouble with the mob because of a poker debt and…well, that’s the only thing we know about the plot, but the fact that both Steven Segal and ex-football hooligan Vinnie Jones are part of the cast promises a lot of violence and fistfights.
If you are looking forward to movies that focus on poker more, you are going to have a lot of options in the following years, including a sequel for legendary poker movie Rounders. The Weinstein Company has already started to work on the movie, which will start out in Paris and will be a much more international story than the first part.
Another promising project is "Whales", a series produced by Entourage and Weeds writer Matt Salsberg. The series will be about a group of players in their twenties who start to travel the high stakes circuit, and Salsberg says it’s going to be a "realistic comedy", much like Entourage.
There is also a movie being made about the life of Mike "The Mouth" Matusow. Mike is definitely an interesting character, his table talk, his run-ins with the law, his depression and his poker adventures offer a great source material to be turned into a movie.
These movies could definitely restore the public’s interest in poker, and hopefully it will make them forget movies like Lucky You and Runner Runner.
