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About the Film Columbia Pictures' action/adventure 21 is inspired by the true story of the very brightest young minds in the country – and how they took Vegas for millions. Ben Campbell (Jim Sturgess) is a shy, brilliant M.I.T. student who – needing to pay school tuition – finds the answers in the cards. He is recruited to join a group of the school’s most gifted students that heads to Vegas every weekend armed with fake identities and the know-how to turn the odds at blackjack in their favor. With unorthodox math professor and stats genius Micky Rosa (Kevin Spacey) leading the way, they’ve cracked the code. By counting cards and employing an intricate system of signals, the team can beat the casinos big time. Seduced by the money, the Vegas lifestyle, and by his smart and sexy teammate, Jill Taylor (Kate Bosworth), Ben begins to push the limits. Though counting cards isn’t illegal, the stakes are high, and the challenge becomes not only keeping the numbers straight, but staying one step ahead of the casinos’ menacing enforcer: Cole Williams (Laurence Fishburne). Columbia Pictures presents in association with Relativity Media a Trigger Street/Michael De Luca production, a film by Robert Luketic, 21. The film stars Jim Sturgess, Kate Bosworth, with Laurence Fishburne and Kevin Spacey. Directed by Robert Luketic. Produced by Dana Brunetti, Kevin Spacey, and Michael De Luca. Screenplay by Peter Steinfeld and Allan Loeb, based upon the book Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich. The Executive Producers are William S. Beasley, Brett Ratner, and Ryan Kavanaugh. Director of Photography is Russell Carpenter, ASC. Production Designer is Missy Stewart. Editor is Elliot Graham. Costume Designer is Luca Mosca. Music by David Sardy. 21 has been rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for some violence and sexual content including partial nudity. The film will be released March 28, 2008 in theaters nationwide. Top ABOUT THE FILM “Who wouldn’t want to go to Vegas and make a killing, not because of luck, but because you’re smart about it?” asks Kevin Spacey, describing the appeal of the story behind 21. Spacey says that though it seems like fantasy wish-fulfillment, in fact the film is inspired by a real group of M.I.T. students in the 1990s. “I loved the juxtaposition between these kids’ lives in Boston – where they were geeks with pencils in their pockets – and the lives they make for themselves in Vegas, where they can become anybody they want to be.” “You can become anyone you want in Vegas,” says Robert Luketic, who directs the film. “M.I.T. geniuses become rock stars. They’re given the keys to Las Vegas. They have access to things that most of us can only dream of.” Long ago, Spacey’s producing partner, Dana Brunetti, had heard the rumors about the M.I.T. math gurus who had used their skills for a very concrete purpose: they had figured out how to beat the odds at blackjack and take the Vegas casinos for millions. “Ever since I started playing blackjack, I’ve been fascinated by the fact that it’s beatable,” says Brunetti. “Then, by chance, a friend of mine was having dinner with a guy who used to be a card-counter on an earlier team. I thought right away that it was a great idea for a movie.” Brunetti knew that the story would interest Spacey, “but it didn’t go anywhere until Ben Mezrich wrote his story for Wired magazine.” Mezrich’s article appeared in the September 2002 issue of Wired. As it chronicled the budding geniuses at M.I.T. who had beaten Vegas at its own game, Mezrich’s tale had everything – featuring high stakes action, incredibly close calls with Vegas security staff, and the up- and downsides of a glitzy, glamorous Vegas lifestyle, Mezrich’s article was a true story that read like a Hollywood thriller. Immediately struck by the possibilities, Brunetti contacted Mezrich, but the author’s first impression was that one of the students was playing a prank (something that would not be out of character for an M.I.T. student). “This guy calls me up and says, ‘Hi, I’m Dana Brunetti, and I have Kevin Spacey on the line.’ Yeah, right. I take down his number and say I’ll call him back. So I Google ‘Dana Brunetti’ – and he really is working with Kevin Spacey!” Brunetti and Spacey had soon locked up the rights to the article. Coincidentally, Luketic also read the Wired story and thought it would be a great movie. “I’d just gotten back from touring Europe to support Legally Blonde and was looking for my next project. I read in Wired magazine about a team of brilliant M.I.T. students who’d beaten the house in Vegas – but when I called, I found out that Kevin Spacey had already bought the project. Years passed, but then a script landed on my desk and it all came back to me. I guess it was meant to be.” Producer Michael De Luca explains that the book taps into everyone’s Vegas dream of beating the house. “I've always been a blackjack fan,” he says, “so after I read the book, I tried to pick up the counting method from the book. It’s hard for someone who's not a math genius, but it’s infectious. The few times you get the count right and you hit a hand for a lot of money, it feels really good.” When Mezrich’s book hit the shelves, it became a phenomenon, staying on the bestsellers list for 59 weeks and moving 1.5 million copies. Translated into twelve languages, the book continues to enjoy strong sales. In order to adapt Mezrich’s nonfiction book into a movie, the filmmakers made certain changes to the story, but the filmmakers point out that their dramatic license doesn’t change what has made the book so popular. “This is a fun movie – it’s not meant to be a docudrama,” says Dana Brunetti. “We made some changes to the real story in order to make it work as an entertaining movie. We set the movie in the present time and added a romantic element. But we never touched the heart of what made the story so exciting: the tense action, the high stakes, using fake identities and bravado to rise to the top in the fast-paced world of Vegas, beating the house and making millions. That's what the book is, and that's what the movie is, too.” The book and the movie are both inspired by the experiences of Jeff Ma, who was a student at M.I.T. in the mid-1990s when he was recruited to join the blackjack team. Though Ma and his teammates were some of the brightest minds in the country, to succeed with the team, they would require something else. “I think the real reason that I was recruited to join the team was because they thought I would be good at it, not just because of my intelligence, but because of my demeanor and my ability to go into a casino and sell myself,” he says. Ma visited the set numerous times, both in Vegas and in Boston, and even has a cameo as a blackjack dealer in the film. “This is a story that everyone would want to happen to them,” Ma says. “Everyone wants to be the one who beats Vegas, who gets to be in that lifestyle.” While on the M.I.T. team, Ma was the big player; once his teammates, called spotters, had found a hot deck, Ma would sit down and play very high wagers with the odds in his favor. Ma says that he had to overcome the natural parts of his personality to play the big player convincingly. “There was always the fear, rational or irrational, that we would get caught,” he says. “I’m the type of person that doesn’t like to get yelled at by anyone. So regardless of whether the casinos have any ability to cause you physical pain, that fear is always in the back of your mind.” The M.I.T. team changed Ma’s life, not only while he was on the team, but for the future as well. “I think a lot of people work at jobs they don’t really like to earn a paycheck,” he says. “Because of blackjack, I’ll never have to take a job like that. I had enough money that I could do what I wanted to do – coach water polo, and then start a sports company. I’ll never have to take a job that I don’t enjoy purely for the money. That’s the greatest gift that blackjack gave me.” Ma is no longer allowed to play blackjack in most casinos in Las Vegas – though the casinos welcome him at other games, he can’t play his best game. For Ma, the thing he misses most isn’t the blackjack, but being part of the team. “We were a group of 10 or 20 kids – literally kids, 21 years old – managing a multimillion-dollar company, trying to make it work and trying to make more millions. I miss that camaraderie.” To direct the film, the producers looked to Robert Luketic. Producer Michael De Luca says that he, Brunetti, and Spacey were attracted by Luketic’s vision for the film. “21 spans many genres, many tones,” he says.
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