Jessica Chastain, Michael Cera, and Idris Alba have all been tapped to star in the upcoming film, Molly’s Game, written and directed by Aaron Sorkin. Borys Kit, writing for The Hollywood Reporter:
Chastain is starring as the film’s title character, a skier who, after her Olympic dreams are dashed, heads to Los Angeles and becomes a cocktail waitress. But she rises through the social circuit to became an organizer of underground poker games for the Hollywood elite, with players including Ben Affleck, Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire. The real-life Bloom’s poker games came to an end when she was arrested by the FBI.