MUMBAI: Brie Larson is in talks for the female lead opposite Mark Wahlberg in the Paramount’s remake of the 1974 drama The Gambler that starred James Caan.
Rupert Wyatt is directing the movie, which focuses on Jim Bennett, a college literature professor, being played by Wahlberg, whose vices cause his life to spiral out of control.
Larson repped by Gersh and ROAR will play one of Bennett’s students with whom he’s in love.
Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff are producing the film.
MUMBAI: There are rumors doing rounds that Mark Wahlberg is circling to star and Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes helmer Rupert Wyatt is circling to direct The Gambler, a William Monahan-scripted remake of the 1974 James Caan movie for Paramount.
The remake is being produced by original producers Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff and also Stephen Levinson. Caan played a college professor whose gambling addiction overcomes him even after he gets in big trouble with the wrong guys. James Toback wrote the original script and the feature film co-starred Lauren Hutton and Paul Sorvino.