HarperCollins Tie-up ‘Molly’s Game’ Deal

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HarperCollins Tie-up ‘Molly’s Game’ Deal
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09 Sep

HarperCollins, one of the world’s largest publishing companies, has bought the world book rights to the much-anticipated screen version of Molly’s Game, the story about Molly Bloom and her rise and fall as the main figure behind a high-stakes underground poker game which involved the likes of Tobey Maguire and Matt Damon.

The film version, which is due out in December of this year, will see Jessica Chastain take the lead role, with a supporting cast of huge names in the film business including Idris Elba and Kevin Costner – and now HarperCollins have be publishing a paperback version set to hit the shelves as the movie hits the screens.


Former Olympic-skier-turned waitress–turned high-stakes hostess Bloom saw her 2014 memoirs ‘Molly’s Game: From Hollywood’s Elite to Wall Street’s Billionaire Boys Club, My High-Stakes Adventure in the World of Underground Poker’, re-written for the big screen by Aaron Sorkin, who was so enamoured by the tale that he decided to make his directorial debut with the movie version.

Now a reprint to tie-in with the movie release will be published by HarperCollins in nine markets and five languages - starting with the US, Canada and Australia in October followed by the UK on 14th December in paperback, the movie itself due out on 26th December. According to trade site Thebookseller.com, the book will then be published in France, Spain, Japan, Holland, and Poland throughout 2018.


Tom Killingbeck, commissioning editor for HarperCollins’ UK imprint William Collins, who recently acquired UK Commonwealth rights, said of the tie-in news: Killingbeck said:

“Cinema audiences may assume Molly Bloom to be an outlandish fictional creation, but I can assure readers that she is a real person, and her book is based on real events."

He added:

“As a riotously entertaining memoir that charts a tightrope walk between the high life and the low life, Molly’s Game is up there with The Wolf of Wall Street by Jordan Belfort and Catch Me If You Can by Frank W. Abagnale but Molly’s story is tempered with a lot of heart.”

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Andrew from Edinburgh, Scotland, is a professional journalist, international-titled chess master, and avid poker player.Read more

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