The life-time story of Doyle Brunson, 1 of only if Phoebe players to win the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event more than once, is localise for the handsome screen.

Deadline reported this calendar week that Radar Pictures has acquired the picture show rights for Doyle’s biography. The 88-year-old retired from pro poker game in 2018 next a more than 50-year career.

Radar Pictures is an main(a) production fellowship that finances and produces its own feature-length motion pictures. The studio is slow such titles as Jumanji and Riddick — respectively starring The Rock and Vin Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel — as considerably as The Last Samurai starring Uncle Tom Cruise. Radar has produced 80 films since 1984, with its box office staff revenue exceptional $9 one million million in sales.

Radar’s Justin Kathryn Elizabeth Smith will be tasked with producing Brunson’s life-time story for the prominent screen. a fire hook player himself, John Smith is eager for the opportunity.

There have got been many gaming and stove poker scripts sent to me. None of them has intrigued me as practically as Doyle’s story,” David Roland Smith told Deadline.

“Having played the biggest fire hook games with Doyle myself, I’m passing honored to live inward a unique spot to follow able to help tell his story and trance the environment accurately from an indoors perspective,” Captain John Smith added.

Nearly Unprecedented Career

Doyle Brunson was the endure piece standing in the 1976 and 1977 WSOP Main Events. Only trinity others make won the world’s to the highest degree prestigious stove poker tourney inwards consecutive years, the others existence Johnny Chan, Johnny Moss, and Stu Ungar.

Along with his deuce WSOP Main Event titles, Brunson’s illustrious calling includes octad additional WSOP bracelets. The TX native, who has long called Las Vegas home, was inducted into the World Series of Poker Charles Francis Hall of Fame in 1988.

Brunson’s living hasn’t been without controversy. The stove poker outstanding was the topic of an SEC investigating in later(a) 2005 after Brunson proclaimed publicly his spirit to purchase the World Poker Tour, a publically traded keep company at the time.

The Brunson takeover intelligence resulted inwards WPT shares skyrocketing. But when the business deal strike down through, Brunson and his investors went quiet when the SEC inquired nigh the straight spirit of their offer. Though the vitrine dragged on for deuce years, the SEC eventually dropped the probe inwards 2007.

High-Stakes Flicks

The Doyle Brunson forthcoming biopic will live in time another feature-length celluloid focused on the spunky of poker. But with the untitled cinema potential at to the lowest degree a year or deuce out from its premiere, hither are some other poker-focused movies for one’s viewing pleasure.

  • Rounders (1988) — Often cited as the topper fire hook pictorial matter ever, the star-studded motion-picture show with Matt Damon, Edward V Norton, and John the Divine Malkovich tells the story of a high-stakes underground fire hook game.
  • The Cincinnati Kid (1965) — The oldest stove poker leaf on our list, The Cincinnati Kid features Steve McQueen inward the titular role of Eric “The Kid” Stoner, a Depression-era poker player who stakes his report as the topper freshman inwards the gamy against Lancey “The Man” Howard.
  • Molly’s Game (2017) — a more recent motion picture to run into theaters, Molly’s Game tells the avowedly story of Molly Bloom, the infamous “Poker Queen” who unionized high-stakes games for Hollywood celebrities.