Mark Wahlberg Wants to Remake ‘The Gambler’

Let’s go from the absurd (“Runner, Runner”) to what could turn out to be the sublime.  Mark Wahlberg is looking to reprise the role of Axel Freed as a New York City English professor with a gambling addiction that begins to spiral out of control.

“The Gambler” is a Hollywood classic and certainly more authentic than say “Runner, Runner”, a fictional tale of a fictional offshore gambling industry that simply doesn’t exist.

The original version was made by Karel Reisz in 1974 and starred the legendary James Caan.

Martin Scorsese and Todd Phillips have considered remaking "The Gambler" but this honor will go to Rupert Wyatt, who directed Wahlberg in “Rise of the Planet of the Apes”.

This project is still in the discussion stage.

- Jordan Bach, Gambling911.com