watch runner runner online,The title of Runner Runner,a drama set in the world of online gambling, refers to a term of art in poker, defined as a circumstance in which a hand is made by drawing two consecutive cards on the turn and river and oh, forget it. Are your eyes glazing over?Mine, too. When it comes to this movie and the other direction, run run don not walk walk.
Mr. Timblerlake plays a Princeton graduate student named Richie Furst who plays highpoker for tuition money and recruits fellow students and professors to bet on poker sites. Soon he accepts a seven-figure salary to work directly for the website operator in Costa Rica, where he finds the company uses software to spy on players' hands and cheat them—and is being investigated by the FBI. Richie plunges into a seedy underworld of bribery, violence, opulent parties and confrontations with law enforcement officials. Mr. Affleck plays the amoral founder of the fictitious company, Midnight-black.com.
Despite their insistence that Runner Runner is not strictly a movie about gambling Levien and Koppelman appear to be earning reputations as Hollywood's go-to writers on the subject with credits including the Matt Damon drama Rounders,TV poker series Tilt and 2007s casino heist movie Oceans 13.Koppelman said the world of gambling intrigued both him and Levien for its hypocrisy and how gamblers justify their behavior.
We are not concerned about that at all. We're story tellers and we are just trying to tell a story the most compelling way we can. For us this was just a really rich world to set up the story. As poker players, as guys who play online and were burned by what happened, we thought that we should dive into this and create a fictional story that would have some kind of impact.
I never set out to intentionally hit a topic. We loved the idea of a maverick businessman who is immune to extradition. It was informed by gaming as well as other business figures,said Levien of the 20th Century Fox film.Runner Runner,which owes its name to poker slang, follows Timberlake as a graduate student who goes to Costa Rica to confront an online gambling tycoon played by Affleck, who swindles him.
While the characters and businesses in Runner Runner are fictional, much in the $30 million highhas been drawn from real events. For instance, the fictional company is caught accessing funds in players' betting accounts, something that federal authorities said at least one company did in 2011, as the government was throttling its ability to move money around the globe.
Mr. Timblerlake plays a Princeton graduate student named Richie Furst who plays highpoker for tuition money and recruits fellow students and professors to bet on poker sites. Soon he accepts a seven-figure salary to work directly for the website operator in Costa Rica, where he finds the company uses software to spy on players' hands and cheat them—and is being investigated by the FBI. Richie plunges into a seedy underworld of bribery, violence, opulent parties and confrontations with law enforcement officials. Mr. Affleck plays the amoral founder of the fictitious company, Midnight-black.com.
Despite their insistence that Runner Runner is not strictly a movie about gambling Levien and Koppelman appear to be earning reputations as Hollywood's go-to writers on the subject with credits including the Matt Damon drama Rounders,TV poker series Tilt and 2007s casino heist movie Oceans 13.Koppelman said the world of gambling intrigued both him and Levien for its hypocrisy and how gamblers justify their behavior.
We are not concerned about that at all. We're story tellers and we are just trying to tell a story the most compelling way we can. For us this was just a really rich world to set up the story. As poker players, as guys who play online and were burned by what happened, we thought that we should dive into this and create a fictional story that would have some kind of impact.
I never set out to intentionally hit a topic. We loved the idea of a maverick businessman who is immune to extradition. It was informed by gaming as well as other business figures,said Levien of the 20th Century Fox film.Runner Runner,which owes its name to poker slang, follows Timberlake as a graduate student who goes to Costa Rica to confront an online gambling tycoon played by Affleck, who swindles him.
While the characters and businesses in Runner Runner are fictional, much in the $30 million highhas been drawn from real events. For instance, the fictional company is caught accessing funds in players' betting accounts, something that federal authorities said at least one company did in 2011, as the government was throttling its ability to move money around the globe.
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