February 22, 2022 Poker Gossip, Poker News Graham

Phil Hellmuth Gets Trolled Hard by DNegs for Asking on Twitter Who to Play Him in the Movie about His Life

Phil Hellmuth is being trolled hard by DNegs on Twitter over suggesting Adam Driver or Hayden Christiansen should play him in a movie about his life and career.

The Poker Brat reckons that Twitter thinks Adam Driver is the perfect choice and says that 15 years ago Hayden Christiansen was ready to sign a contract but changed his mind and starred in Jumper instead.

He even thinks Ashton Kutcher was committed to playing the role at some point.

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“Ashton Kutcher was committed to play me in “The Madison Kid” (a script about my life) in 2004. In 2007 Hayden Christensen was committed to play me. The movie was almost green lit, we had 43 out of 44 pieces in place, but Hayden was 44th piece and chose to shoot “Jumper” instead”

Of course it didn’t take long until people started to poke fun at the 16-time WSOP bracelet winner for having such lofty standards over who should play him in The Madison Kid.

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Daniel Negreanu was quick to throw out some choices for his own movie, The Toronto Kid—Michael B Jordan, David Beckham or Brad Pitt.

All dead ringers, he said!

Will The Madison Kid Ever Get Made?

The Madison Kid was written back in 2001 and details Phil Hellmuth’s rise to stardom in the poker world when he became the youngest ever winner of the WSOP Main Event at the age of 24.

Phil Hellmuth Gets Trolled Hard by DNegs for Asking on Twitter Who to Play Him in the Movie about His Life

Will the project ever get off the ground? Given that the script is 21 years old and so much has happened in Hellmuth’s career since, it’s tough to think that any investors won’t want an updated version.

Heading into the 2001 World Series of Poker, Phil Hellmuth only had six gold bracelets to his name. With another 10 added to his record in the years after, how can any film about his life ignore this?

If anything, Phil Hellmuth is a bigger name in poker today than he was 20 years ago.

Hellmuth says that The Madison Kid is a great script and he’s convinced it will get made at some point, but he fails to give any details on why he’s so sure.

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