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Spacey to play 'Casino Jack'

By Adnan Tezer May 13, 2009, 22:47 GMT

Kevin Spacey’s next role will be as disgraced Washington power broker Jack Abramoff.

According to Variety, Spacey will star in the true story-based thriller "Casino Jack," directed by George Hickenlooper from an original screenplay by Norman Snider.

Hickenlooper is best known as the documentary filmmaker who co-directed along with Fax Bahr the award-winning 1991 documentary “Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse” which details the many problems that plagued the shooting of Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now.

Hickenlooper also directed the short film version of Billy Bob Thornton’s Sling Blade in 1994 when it was known as “Some Folks Call it a Sling Blade.”

“Casino Jack” follows the downward spiral of the once high-powered lobbyist whose bribery schemes and fraudulent dealings with Indian casinos ultimately landed him in prison.

Gary Howsam, Bill Marks and George Vitetzakis will be handling producing duties, which will begin shooting in Toronto this month.

Richard Rionda Del Castro, Donald Zuckerman, Patricia Eberle and Lewin Webb will be executive producing alongside Dana Brunetti for Spacey's Trigger Street Productions.

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US Release: 2010-12-17
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Casino Jack Premiere Pictures at Toronto Film Festival

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