Hayden Christensen was recently voted the Star Wars prequel actor most likely to end up like Mark Hamill in a recent survey conducted on me. I think my polling data is pretty accurate really. Everyone else of note involved with the prequels already has a legitimate film career outside of Star Wars while Hayden continues to struggle to find one. Eventually perhaps he'll give up and resign himself to doing brilliant voice work in cartoons, but right now he's still fighting.
Yes, I know everyone says if you've seen him in Shattered Glass then you know he's a better actor than Star Wars makes him appear, but I've seen Shattered Glass and I'm still not convinced. Yeah, he's good in it but the role requires him to play another whiny, petulant, brat. The same is true of his part in Life as a House. Sorry, not buying it yet. Maybe he'll bring my polling sample around with his newest project.
Production Weekly says he's set to play real life poker star Phil Hellmuth in a movie about his life called The Madison Kid. If you're a poker nut, then you probably know him as one of the game's best players. If you're part of my polling sample, you'll know him as the guy whose picture pops up in the credits of the Texas Holdem game on your cell phone.
Hellmuth says the movie will start shooting as soon as this April or May in Canada. No word on how much of his life it will cover, but he first became a poker champ in 1989 at the age of 24 after defeating two-time champ Johnny Chan. Apparently Jackie Chan's brother has a severe gambling problem. Or a least it became a problem after he lost, since as everyone knows gambling is not a problem until you lose.
