Aaron Sorkin to Adapt Poker Memoir 'Molly's Game'; Mark Boal to Rewrite 'Uncharted'

A couple of award-winning screenwriters have lined up new projects, both dealing with games of a different variety.

First up, Aaron Sorkin may be done writing for TV after The Newsroom wraps its third season, but he's staying busy on the big screen. He's set to adapt Molly's Game, based on the memoir by Molly Bloom who ran the most elite high-stakes poker game in Los Angeles. Over the eight years she was in control of the operation hundreds of millions of dollars were won and lost at her poker tables, and put her in touch with the city's biggest power players until the authorities came in and shut the whole thing down.  Next up for Sorkin is his Steve Jobs biopic directed by Danny Boyle.

And the forever-developing video game adaptation Uncharted will get a rewrite from Mark Boal, Oscar winning writer of The Hurt Locker. He's just the latest to take a crack at the script which was first penned by David O. Russell back when he was attached to direct, then rewritten by an army of others before now. Seth Gordon is directing the adventure film about treasure hunter Nate Drake, a descendant of explorer Sir Francis Drake. [Deadline/THR]