Matt Damon’s character was a university student who played in small poker games, but if a new film was to reflect the current state of affairs he would be playing tournaments and cash games at online poker sites like. But now it has grown into an industry of Godzilla-like proportions. When Rounders was released, online poker was still in an embryonic form. A new offering would have to take that into account. With it being over twenty years since the original, a lot of things in the poker scene have changed. There has been a lot of speculation over what kind of plot Rounders 2 would take if it was made. There have been constant calls for the dazzling cast which included John Malkovich and Matt Damon to reunite and make a sequel, but the Good Will Hunting star recently claimed that it will never come to fruition. Despite posting modest box office figures of $22.9 million domestically upon release in 1998, it later surged in popularity as more people became aware of Texas Hold’em.
Rounders is easily one of the best poker film ever made, and the John Dahl picture is credited with being one of the catalysts that sparked the poker boom in the mid-2000s. Posted by Kevin Trawin on in Film | 3 comments
