New full-length trailer for 'Molly's Game' gives us a better look at a potential Oscar contender

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By Darian Scalamoni

            Yesterday, the teaser for Molly’s Game was released and now, the full-length trailer can be seen below for a movie that I am HIGHLY anticipating. The movie, starring Jessica Chastain could be her ticket to an Academy Award and could see yet another writing Oscar for screenwriter (and now first-time director) Aaron Sorkin.

            Chastain plays Molly Bloom, an Olympic-class skier who ran an exclusive high-stakes poker game for over a decade before being arrested by FBI agents. The movie isn’t directly based on the book of the same name as we see Idris Elba’s character holding the book in the trailer. Yet, it seems he’s going for a less conventional approach with this adaptation by chronicling Bloom’s life, before, during and after the celebrity-driven poker games. I’m incredibly excited for this as Sorkin is my favorite screenwriter of all-time, mostly because his incredible work on The Newsroom, The West Wing and my favorite movie of all-time, The Social Network. He was actually set to direct that film if David Fincher passed and was given permission by the director to shoot a scene on the last day of production.

            Check out the trailer below for Molly’s Game! The film stars Jessica Chastain, Kevin Costner, Idris Elba, Michael Cera, Jeremy Strong, Chris O’Dowd and Bill Camp. Molly’s Game hits theaters on November 22^nd.