Overview
- Cole Hauser is attached to star as Benny Binion, with Sylvester Stallone executive producing through Balboa Productions and MGM Television developing.
- The series adapts Doug J. Swanson’s 2014 book Blood Aces: The Wild Ride of Benny Binion, the Texas Gangster Who Created Vegas Poker.
- Executive producers include Stallone and D. Matt Geller for Balboa, Hauser and Randall Batinkoff for American Outlaw Entertainment, and Jai Stefan.
- Producers describe a gritty, character-driven prestige drama charting Binion’s rise and influence on Las Vegas gambling, the World Series of Poker, and rodeo promotion.
- The project is in active development with meetings underway for a showrunner, and Deadline first reported the news later echoed by other outlets.