Budgeted at $12 million, Rounders was filmed from December 1997 to February 1998 under the direction of John Dahl.
Underground club and telling him, “We have to write a movie about this.” The Rounders script then made the rounds to various agents, where it was eventually discovered in a slush pile in the office of producer Ted Demme, who brought it to the attention of Miramax Films.Ģ.