The 49-acre Tropicana Avenue/Dean Martin Drive location that the Oakland A’s settled on for the team’s proposed $1.5 billion stadium complex once had a bit role in the 2009 film “The Hangover.”
When approached a year earlier by the film’s scouting team, Station Casinos (now Red Rock Resorts) executives were initially intrigued by having one of their Las Vegas area casinos featured in a Hollywood production.
Then they read the script.
A year earlier, Red Rock Resort in Summerlin was used for casino scenes in the film “21,” which chronicled the real-life exploits of a blackjack card counting team of Massachusetts Institute of Technology students who won millions of dollars from casinos around the U.S.
