Cage Developing Amarillo Slim Preston Biopic

The Hollywood Reporter says screenwriters Stephen Rivele and Christopher Wilkinson will adapt Preston's memoir "Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People: The Memoirs of the Greatest Gambler Who Ever Lived."Among others, Slim beat Willie Nelson for $300,000 playing dominoes; Larry Flynt for $2 million playing poker. He has played poker with presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, and drug lords Pablo Escobar and Jimmy Chagra. He was also one of the pioneers of Las Vegas. Plain and simple, Amarillo Slim is America's greatest gambler of all time.Cage would star and produce the movie. Futher details on the novel in our database.

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thekidMar 21st, 2007 - 04:25:19

i hope they make this a great film not just a shabby alright film that they just hope to make a few bucks off this man has a really interesting life and i hope that the film give me the same thrills, laughs and respect i got for this man

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