21 [Twenty-One] [Untitled Blackjack Picture]

Various American Cities: Sony/Columbia Pictures / Trigger Street Productions, 2007. Revised Shooting script for the 2008 film, seen here under the working title "Untitled Blackjack Picture." Bound in at the rear of the script is an eight-page alternate ending, dated February 20, 2007.

Based on the 2003 book "Bringing Down the House" by Ben Mezrich, about a group of MIT students in the late 1970s through the early 2000s who used card counting and other strategies to game the odds at casinos.

Shot on location in Las Vegas and Boston.

Self wrappers. Title page present, dated 12/27/06, noted as 1st White Shooting Draft, with credits for Mezrich and screenwriters Peter Steinfeld and Allan Loeb. 117 leaves, with last page of text numbered 111. Xerographic duplication, rectos only, with rainbow revision pages throughout, dated variously between February 3 and March 22, 2007. Pages about Fine, bound with two gold brads.

[Book #170196]