Levy Goes To 21

Shawn Levy, director of such internationally-acclaimed films as Cheaper By The Dozen, Just Married and the upcoming The Pink Panther, is currently in talks to direct the much-delayed casino caper formerly known as "Breaking Vegas" but now known as 21. Brett Ratner was previously due to direct, but jumped ship for the little matter of X3. It's now been almost three years since we first reported on the project, here. That was the point when Kevin Spacey first signed on to the project, when his production company, Trigger Street, bought the rights. Spacey himself planned to play one of the lead roles, the professor of a group of MIT students who became experts in card counting, and headed to Vegas to win millions from the casinos. Ratner joined in 2004, (see here, but when he accepted the job on X3 had to drop out, once again leaving the project in limbo. But no film with such a strong premise