A biopic is in developing nearly the most influential, and now controversial, figure in gaming history.
“The Rise & Fall of Steve Wynn” testament be adapted for the cover by Christina Binkley from her have 2018 New House of York Times bestseller, “Winner Takes All: How Casino Moghul Steve Wynn Won — and Lost — the High Stakes Gamble to Own Las Vegas.”
From Bingo to Billions
The biopic will deal Wynn’s meteoric boost from scrappy bingo parlor operator to billionaire gambling casino mogul, and and then come out of the gaming industry in all after a 2018 Wall Street Journal article accused him of piquant in a “decades-long pattern of sexual misconduct” toward female staff.
Co-producing the biopic testament be Binkley on with Robert Scott John Jay Kaplan (“Queenmaker,” “Red Penguins”) and Emmet McDermott (“White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch”), whose production keep company is called CoverStory.
“We are immensely lucky to piece of work with Christina on this larger-than-life story,” McDermott said in a push vent around the deal.
According to the release, “The Rise & Fall of Steve Wynn” testament live “set primarily in the 1990s” and illustrate “how Wynn’s unparalleled get for force finally be him everything, creating a vacuum-clean of power filled by his ex-wife Elaine.”
No distribution deal has been announced.
Wynn has denied all sexual assault accusations against him and has never been convicted of a crime. However, the contention caused him to resign from his attitude as chairman and CEO of the troupe that bears his name. He also sold his stake in Wynn Resorts in a press to protect its play licenses inward Battle Born State and Massachusetts.