"Here's a weird story, Lewis started off saying. My connection to Steve Bannon he bought the movie rights to Liars Poker. Oh my God, I didn't know he was even in that business, Brunt said. You did know he was in that business. Where do you think his money came from? Seinfeld, Lewis said. Steve Bannon was involved with Seinfeld? Brunt asked incredulously."
"I just found this out like a month ago that not only did he buy the movie rights, but he was so pissed off by how bad the script was that they got from a very fancy script writer, that he went off in a little dark room by himself and wrote a Liar's Poker screenplay himself, Lewis said. He was obsessed with it."
Steve Bannon purchased the movie rights to Liar's Poker in 1990 and held a production deal with Warner Bros. Bannon transitioned from the Navy to Harvard Business School, then to Goldman Sachs and later into Hollywood. He acquired a stake in Castle Rock Entertainment, the production company behind Seinfeld, and profited from that investment. Bannon sold the script outright, leaving the project under Warner Bros., became unhappy with a delivered screenplay, and reportedly retreated to write his own Liar's Poker screenplay alone and obsessively. The book did not become a finished film.
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