--- title: Matt Damon Is Definitely Interested In Making a 'Rounders 2' description: The 'Bourne' star is ready to revisit the world of high-stakes poker that he first explored in the 1998 movie 'Rounders' with Edward Norton. canonical: https://time.com/4426580/matt-damon-says-rounders-writers-have-an-idea-for-a-sequel/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-27T18:16:24.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:34:50.656Z og:title: Matt Damon Is Definitely Interested In Making a 'Rounders 2' og:description: The 'Bourne' star is ready to revisit the world of high-stakes poker. og:url: https://time.com/4426580/matt-damon-says-rounders-writers-have-an-idea-for-a-sequel/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Matt Damon Is Definitely Interested In Making a 'Rounders 2' twitter:description: The 'Bourne' star is ready to revisit the world of high-stakes poker. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Matt Damon Says _Rounders_ Writers Have an Idea for a Sequel > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jul 27, 2016 6:16 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jul 27, 2016 6:16 PM UTC In an interview on the _Rich Eisen Show_ Tuesday night, [_Jason Bourne_ star](http://time.com/4422713/let-matt-damon-tell-you-everything-you-need-to-know-before-watching-bourne-in-90-seconds/?iid=sr-link8) and [celebrity favorite](http://time.com/4410678/matt-damon-jason-bourne-ben-affleck/?iid=sr-link5) Matt Damon discussed some of the movies he’d be willing to give a second look for a sequel. It turns out that _Rounders_ — Damon’s [1998 cult favorite movie](http://www.avclub.com/article/the-new-cult-canon-iroundersi-2512) with Edward Norton and John Malkovich about a high-stakes poker player trying to make it big on the world stage — is definitely on his reboot radar. “\[Brian\] Koppelman and \[David\] Levien — the two guys who wrote it… they have a really good idea for a _Rounders_ story,” he explained, considering how the world of online poker playing has changed the game’s landscape since the movie first came out. “This young generation, they start playing when they’re in their adolescence. They’re looking at 10 hands at a time, playing for real money online. By the time they’re 21, they’ve seen millions and millions and millions of hands… It’s now gone into deep game theory. It’s at a whole other level. It’s just a very, very different game,” Damon said, adding that it would be “interesting” to see [his and John Malkovich’s characters](http://time.com/4417713/matt-damon-rounders-john-malkovich/?iid=sr-link2) enter into that new fray. This actually isn’t the first time a _Rounders_ sequel has been floated: major Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was [discussing the potential](http://entertainment.time.com/2013/12/17/weinsteins-prepping-sequels-to-shakespeare-in-love-and-rounders/?iid=sr-link1) back in 2013\. 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