Molly’s Game True Story What Jessica Chastain’s Movie Changed

[Music] following the true story of Molly Bloom the Molly's game movie made many significant changes from the book The 2017 adaptation from Aaron sorin follows Bloom as she transforms from Olympic level skier to host of the most exclusive Poker Club in the world to FBI Target while a lot of the movie takes into count the true story of Molly Bloom it also leaves out some details making room for the trademark reper tee in Aaron sorin movies and TV shows Molly's game Stars Jessica Chastain in the title role as sorin explores Bloom's unlikely and fascinating Journey the details and aspects of Bloom's life depicted in the movie are exciting and sometimes unbelievable as the movie jumps from a thrilling poker movie to a courtroom drama to a story about a father and daughter however while sorin adapts a lot of the Molly's game true story Faithfully for the big screen he also takes some creative license with certain aspects that makes for a compelling movie The Club in Molly's game is different in real life the real poker games happened in the Viper lounge everything portrayed up until Molly moves to LA in Molly's game is extremely accurate to the true story her father's overbearing insistence on Excellence her skiing career in accident and her start as a waitress make appearances both in Bloom's Memoir and in interviews with the ex poker princess like in real life barring some name changes Dean Keith Jeremy Strong met Molly while she was waitressing and offered her a gig as his assistant at his nightclub the movie changes the name of the club though in Molly's game it is called the Cobra Lounge while the real life poker games took place at The Viper Room found on the Sunset Strip the connection between the names is clear although the movie's tweak does remove some of the history from the location The Viper Room part owned by Johnny Depp between 1993 and 2004 was a famous celebrity Gathering point it is where River Phoenix died from a drug overdose in 1993 where Molly's game depicts the Cobra Lounge with a flashy neon sign stereotypical of West Hollywood the Viper club's current exterior is far more downplayed Molly's game changes the name of the club owner Darren Feinstein is the real owner of The Viper Room as Aaron sorin's first movie as a director he carefully chose the changes he made to the Molly's game true story such as how the only thing the movie changed about the club owner who first launched Molly into the world of underground poker is his name the movie calls him Keith Bloom's Memoir calls him reared and green in real life his name was Darren Feinstein a co-owner of The Viper Room who brought Molly on as an executive assistant the more insane details in the movie about Molly's experiences working with Keith are relatively true to life the scene in which he yells at Molly for buying poor people Bagels is something that actually happened according to her Memoir in the book Molly's game the true story of the 26-year-old woman behind the most exclusive high stakes underground poker game in the world blw is careful about who she names and who remains Anonymous actors like Leonardo DiCaprio Ben Affleck and mccauly kulen became known participants in the underground poker scene after a court case turned public the bank sued Molly for the money one of her players Ponzi scheme Runner Bradley rudderman had lost in the game in her book bloom only refers by name to the people who the media had already outed protecting the identity of her players who remained Anonymous taking that one step further the only real name used in the movie is Molly's own however player X in Molly's game is quite clearly meant to represent Toby Maguire who Molly names in her book