Tiffany Haddish, Willem Dafoe and Tye Sheridan have joined Paul Schrader's 'The Card Counter' alongside Oscar Issac. Martin Scorsese is executive producing the revenge thriller set in the casino scene. More details:
Oscar Isaac will play the lead in the original feature as Tell, a would-be card shark living a spartan existence on the casino circuit. A chance meeting with Cirk leads to Tell joining forces with him to help carry out a revenge plan against a military colonel .
With backing from gambling financier La Linda , the trio goes on the road, from casino to casino, with the unlikely goal of winning a World Series of Poker tournament.from his own screenplay. Martin Scorsese will executive produce the project, reteaming with Schrader, who wrote the screenplays for Scorsese's
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