According to the US Internet Movie Database, a movie focusing on the life of Thomas Austin Preston Jr., better known as Amarillo Slim, professional poker player and lifetime gambler, is in production.

The film is currently categorized as “in production,’ has been in development for some time now. Nicolas Cage, who will be playing the lead role of Amarillo Slim, is credited as a producer along with Braxton Pope.

Christopher Wilkinson, whose credits as screenwriter include “Nixon,” and “Ali,” both biopics, is adapting Amarillo’s book, “Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People: The Memoirs of the Greatest Gambler Who Ever Lived,” for the big screen.

Amarillo Slim, during his career has won a total of four WSOP bracelets (1972, 1974, 1985, 1990) and has won over $590,000 in tournament play. Slim was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 1992.