PHIL HELLMUTH is such a Madison kid that when Bob Soderstrom wrote a screenplay about Hellmuth, the once precocious and always colorful poker brat, he called it “The Madison Kid.
….The script was good enough to win a 2002 Wisconsin Screenwriter’s Forum contest, and now, in a business where it is said you can die of encouragement, it is this close to being made into a movie with a hot young actor named Hayden Christensen playing Hellmuth.
One of the questions still up in the air is where the movie will be filmed. You might think that a script titled “The Madison Kid” – with scenes set around the State Capitol and Union Terrace – would be a natural to be shot at least partly in Madison, but it’s more complicated than that.