Jessica Chastain stars as the infamous Poker Princess in the wild first trailer for Aaron Sorkins new film, Mollys Game. The film marks Sorkins directorial debut and is based on the true story of Molly Bloom, an Olympic-class skier who ran a high-stakes poker game for celebrities and business tycoons.
The new clip teases the full scope of Blooms story, from her beginnings hosting someone elses game at the Viper Room in Hollywood to the champagne-soaked contests she held in New York City. Inevitably, Bloom runs afoul of the feds and finds herself in court and potentially on the hook to hand over hard drives filled with sensitive data about her A-list clients.
Amidst the lavish poker scenes and courtroom drama, the trailer is packed with plenty of quintessential Sorkinese, which Chastain delivers expertly. When her Viper Room boss cuts half her pay because of what she makes at the games, Bloom replies with breathless exasperation, Youre gonna stop paying me because Im making too much doing my second job, and if I say, No, Ill lose both jobs because it doesnt seem fair?
Mollys Game co-stars Idris Elba, Michael Cera, Kevin Costner and Chris ODowd. Along with directing, Sorkin wrote the script based on Blooms memoir of the same name. Mollys Game opens November 22nd.