Rounders, every mention

a16z Podcast | For the Billions of Creatives Out There Apr 1, 2019 · 13 mentions

• ▶ 0:05 Sonal Chokshi Today we have a unique sort of crossover episode with writer-director-producer Brian Koppelman, who, with his partner David Levine, also wrote some of the most popular and still-discussed movies like Ocean's 13 and Rounders, which we'll…
• ▶ 2:17 Brian Koppelman It was, uh, Rounders, the, for which we wrote the screenplay, and it's, uh, today there are people online arguing about that movie, which, which is incredibly satisfying, because as you know, when you make these bets, it, it takes a long… 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 10:00 Sonal Chokshi And even with the rounders, there was sort of a long staying power that came about with that.
• ▶ 15:22 Marc Andreessen So what did you get when you guys, when you guys sold rounders or got the gun, whatever you want to say, the trigger got pulled.
• ▶ 18:45 Brian Koppelman We then got to have this incredibly, incredible moment, which now when I think back on it, I kind of can't even believe happened, which is, we then called the producers and the studio, and we said, John Dahl's going to direct Rounders, and…
• ▶ 25:47 Sonal Chokshi Because oftentimes, like the Rounders example, like it's, this is the conversation that's happening around the movie, because people have ways of defining those things. 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 33:29 Brian Koppelman So for us, it was quite a natural thing because we'd already, you know, at Rounders was as good an experience as you could have as a writer.
• ▶ 40:06 Marc Andreessen So one more question about Rounders, um, which goes to the kind of current state of the, of the industry.