Smokin' Aces (NEW Joe"Narc"Carnahan film)

**Hunter Rider** · 08-06-2005, 06:05 AM

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=10697

Joe Carnahan is Smokin' Aces

Source: Production Weekly
August 6, 2005

Narc writer/director Joe Carnahan is set to helm Smokin' Aces, an ensemble action-comedy dealing with the disappearance of a semi-famous Las Vegas magician, says Production Weekly.

When Las Vegas performer-turned-gangster, Buddy Israel, decides to turn state's evidence and testify against the mob, it seems that a whole lot of people would like to see him dead.

Production on the film is scheduled to start in mid-October in Lake Tahoe and Los Angeles.

Zilleraut #66 · 08-06-2005, 06:28 AM

Awsome thanks for posting.

**Hunter Rider** · 08-06-2005, 07:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Zilleraut #66

Awsome thanks for posting.

Narc was excellent,it's been so long since it though that i was worried he wasnt getting another film,great to see he is and it sounds like a good one and different to Narc which is a smart move IMO

**Hunter Rider** · 08-08-2005, 07:24 AM

a little more info on what carnahan as been doing

http://www.empireonline.co.uk/site/n...?news_id=17015

Carnahan Is Smokin' Aces

Narc director Joe lines up his next project
08 August 2005

Since the success of gritty crime drama Narc, Joe Carnahan has had Hollywood banging on his door, knocking on his window and generally making a nuisance of itself by leaving notes on his car windshield saying "Joe, call us!" But it hasn't all been plain sailing – in the three years since Narc blew the critics away, it's been one delay after another.

First, in 2002, there was the mooted Harrison Ford cop drama A Walk Among The Tombstones, based on the novel by Lawrence Block. Ford was going to make that his follow-up to Hollywood Homicide, but was obviously left with no taste for police work after that caper. In 2003, Carnahan was announced to direct Mission: Impossible 3, but followed David Fincher out the door due to "creative differences". He was also announced as the director for Killing Pablo, based on the hunt for drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, and due to star Antonio Banderas and Javier Bardem – but that too seems to have fallen by the wayside.

So could the latest news, that he has another new film on the go, end his run of bad luck? We can only hope so. He's signed on to make Smokin' Aces, a Las Vegas-set ensemble action-comedy. The hero is a magician called Buddy Israel, a performer-turned-gangster-turned-State's-evidence. Unsurprisingly, there are a whole lot of people who would rather see him dead than giving evidence against the mob, so he engineers his own disappearance – which is where being a magician, and expert in disappearing acts, comes in handy.

The film will be shooting in LA and Lake Tahoe from October, so with only two months until filming, let's hope that this project actually makes it that far.

**Hunter Rider** · 10-14-2005, 05:57 AM

http://comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=11559

Andy Garcia is Smokin' Aces

Source: Variety
October 14, 2005

Andy Garcia has pacted to make the Joe Carnahan-directed Smokin' Aces his next film job, reports Variety.

Garcia will join Jeremy Piven, Ryan Reynolds, Alicia Keys and Ben Affleck in the action comedy about an illusionist who snitches on the mob and has hitmen after him.

Garcia will play the FBI director who tries to keep the cocky entertainer around long enough to testify. Universal and Working Title are producing.

Carmine Falcone · 10-14-2005, 07:10 AM

Sounds good, too bad Assfleck is in it...

Dark Donnie · 10-14-2005, 07:50 AM

Cant wait for this...Piven finally has a front billing!

Carmine Falcone · 10-14-2005, 08:39 AM

I hope Ray Liotta gets a role in this....

Brian2887 · 10-14-2005, 09:30 AM

Sounds great. Piven is hilarious and a great actor, and this should hopefully pull Affleck out of his slump. He gets a lot of hate just because of his love life. Not fair to the dude.

Not to mention, Narc frikkin rocked. I can't wait to see what else Carnahan has up his sleeve. (I'm still hopin' he'll direct the Wolverine movie.)

Carmine Falcone · 10-14-2005, 09:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Brian2887

Not to mention, Narc frikkin rocked. I can't wait to see what else Carnahan has up his sleeve. (I'm still hopin' he'll direct the Wolverine movie.)

I Agree on everything.

skorponok · 10-16-2005, 09:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Brian2887

Sounds great. Piven is hilarious and a great actor, and this should hopefully pull Affleck out of his slump. He gets a lot of hate just because of his love life. Not fair to the dude.

Not to mention, Narc frikkin rocked. I can't wait to see what else Carnahan has up his sleeve. (I'm still hopin' he'll direct the Wolverine movie.)

NARC was fantastic, Affleck is great in supporting roles...and this cast is rounding out pretty good...

Carmine Falcone · 11-02-2005, 03:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Carmine Falcone

I hope Ray Liotta gets a role in this....

It seems like he did...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0475394/

not sure though. IMDB isn't the most reliable. But it would make sense.

Danalys · 11-02-2005, 03:51 PM

damn i wondered why it had taken so long for another film by him.

BT18 · 11-02-2005, 08:16 PM

Who is playing the magician? Reynolds, Affleck, or Piven?

Dark Donnie · 11-02-2005, 08:44 PM

Piven I believe, he is the star

**Hunter Rider** · 11-02-2005, 08:45 PM

Dammit,everytime this thread gets a post i keep hoping it's gonna be some pics from the movie

Dark Donnie · 11-02-2005, 09:37 PM

Sorry to disappoint

**Hunter Rider** · 11-02-2005, 09:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by darkdonnie

Sorry to disappoint

lol,it has started filming though right ?

Dark Donnie · 11-02-2005, 09:50 PM

IMDB says it filmed on 10/21/05 at The Horizon Casino & Caesers Casino

imago · 11-05-2005, 10:59 PM

Piven is not the star. The film is an ensemble through and through.

Dark Donnie · 11-06-2005, 11:54 AM

Well Piven plays the magician Buddy Isreal

Carmine Falcone · 11-08-2005, 10:12 AM

Synopsis

BUDDY "ACES" ISRAEL (Jeremy Piven) is a Vegas card sharp cum gangster and former member of the La Cosa Nostra (LCN), one of the largest criminal organizations in the United States. In exchange for a vanishing act with Witness Protection, Israel (who is currently hiding out in the penthouse of The Nomad Casino in Lake Tahoe with his posse of bodyguards and hookers), has agreed to testify against his former mentor, PRIMO SPARAZZA, and the LCN.

When the terminally ill Sparazza takes out a $1 million contract on Israel's life, word quickly spreads through the underground crime world. The catch: Sparazza wants Israel's heart. FBI agents RICHARD MESSNER (Ryan Reynolds) and DONALD CARRUTHERS (Ray Liotta) learn that Sparazza has hired "a specialist" to do the job and that rogue LCN members SERNA and PADICHE are also recruiting someone to take Israel out. Realizing that it is only a matter of time before the rest of the world is hipped to Israel's whereabouts and seeks to cash in on the contract, FBI director STANLEY LOCKE (Andy Garcia) dispatches Messner and Carruthers to Lake Tahoe to secure their key witness.

Simultaneously, bail bondsman JACK DUPREE (Ben Affleck) and ex-cops HOLLIS ELMORE (Martin Henderson) and PETE DEEKS (Pete Berg) are hired by Israel's lawyers - who were left holding the bag when Israel skipped bail - and sent to Tahoe to pick him up and return him to Vegas.

Meanwhile, Serna and Padiche's recruits: diva assassins GEORGIA SYKES (Alicia Keys) and SHARICE WATTERS (Taraji Henson), master of disguise: LAZLO SOOT, torture extremist: PASQUALE ACOSTA and neo-Nazis: THE TREMOR BROTHERS all make their descent on Lake Tahoe with the same intention - take out Israel by any means necessary.

Chaos ensues as hit men and FBI converge on the penthouse of The Nomad - bullets fly, loyalties shift and lives end - and shocking secrets are revealed involving FBI cover-ups, hidden motives and true identities.

skorponok · 11-08-2005, 12:02 PM

Ryan Reynolds as an FBI AGENT??!?!?!

Affleck as a Bail Bondsman???!?!?!?

FOr some reason I see these roles really working...espescially since Reynolds is apparently going to be along with Ray Liotta a lot...that should be...very, very interesting...

skorponok · 11-09-2005, 07:56 PM

Bump...

Dark Donnie · 01-12-2006, 08:27 AM

Alicia Keys hits the right acting notes
By Marilyn Beck and Stacy Jenel Smith

Though Ryan Reynolds had his doubts about working with Alicia Keys in Joe Carnahan's recently wrapped "Smokin' Aces," he says the singer has much stronger film chops than he expected.
"Going in you're thinking, 'Oh, God, this is going to be tough. Am I going to have to slow down so they can keep up?' But that wasn't the case at all," he lets us know. "I'm surprised she hasn't done a movie before because she's so natural. She's going to blow everybody away."

The action comedy, which also includes Ben Affleck, Andy Garcia, Don Cheadle and Jeremy Piven, is "about a Mafia, Vegas-showman kind of guy who ends up in Tahoe and is about to become a witness in a federal case against the mob," explains Reynolds. "I'm the FBI agent with Ray Liotta, who's assigned to go get him and bring him back alive - but at the same time there are eight different assassins that are all converging on the same hotel suite in Tahoe."

This is from the LA daily news

http://www.dailynews.com/entertainment/ci_3367834

I didn't know Don Cheadle signed on

08-06-2005, 06:05 AM	#1
Hunter Rider Ronin SHH! Administrator Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Camp Manuel Posts: 121,369	Smokin' Aces (NEW Joe"Narc"Carnahan film) http://www.comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=10697 Joe Carnahan is Smokin' Aces Source: Production Weekly August 6, 2005 Narc writer/director Joe Carnahan is set to helm Smokin' Aces, an ensemble action-comedy dealing with the disappearance of a semi-famous Las Vegas magician, says Production Weekly. When Las Vegas performer-turned-gangster, Buddy Israel, decides to turn state's evidence and testify against the mob, it seems that a whole lot of people would like to see him dead. Production on the film is scheduled to start in mid-October in Lake Tahoe and Los Angeles. __________________ thinkmcflythink.com Movie fans, hop in your Delorean and check it out! "Now this life is etched in black but I wont be looking back, the rain washed out the tracks, I'll never find again"

08-06-2005, 06:28 AM	#2
Zilleraut #66 Banned User Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Willoughby, TZ Posts: 3,642	Re: Smokin' Aces (NEW Joe"Narc"Carnahan film) Awsome thanks for posting.

08-08-2005, 07:24 AM	#4
Hunter Rider Ronin SHH! Administrator Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Camp Manuel Posts: 121,369	Re: Smokin' Aces (NEW Joe"Narc"Carnahan film) a little more info on what carnahan as been doing http://www.empireonline.co.uk/site/n...?news_id=17015 Carnahan Is Smokin' Aces Narc director Joe lines up his next project 08 August 2005 Since the success of gritty crime drama Narc, Joe Carnahan has had Hollywood banging on his door, knocking on his window and generally making a nuisance of itself by leaving notes on his car windshield saying "Joe, call us!" But it hasn't all been plain sailing – in the three years since Narc blew the critics away, it's been one delay after another. First, in 2002, there was the mooted Harrison Ford cop drama A Walk Among The Tombstones, based on the novel by Lawrence Block. Ford was going to make that his follow-up to Hollywood Homicide, but was obviously left with no taste for police work after that caper. In 2003, Carnahan was announced to direct Mission: Impossible 3, but followed David Fincher out the door due to "creative differences". He was also announced as the director for Killing Pablo, based on the hunt for drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, and due to star Antonio Banderas and Javier Bardem – but that too seems to have fallen by the wayside. So could the latest news, that he has another new film on the go, end his run of bad luck? We can only hope so. He's signed on to make Smokin' Aces, a Las Vegas-set ensemble action-comedy. The hero is a magician called Buddy Israel, a performer-turned-gangster-turned-State's-evidence. Unsurprisingly, there are a whole lot of people who would rather see him dead than giving evidence against the mob, so he engineers his own disappearance – which is where being a magician, and expert in disappearing acts, comes in handy. The film will be shooting in LA and Lake Tahoe from October, so with only two months until filming, let's hope that this project actually makes it that far. __________________ thinkmcflythink.com Movie fans, hop in your Delorean and check it out! "Now this life is etched in black but I wont be looking back, the rain washed out the tracks, I'll never find again"

10-14-2005, 05:57 AM	#5
Hunter Rider Ronin SHH! Administrator Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Camp Manuel Posts: 121,369	Re: Smokin' Aces (NEW Joe"Narc"Carnahan film) http://comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=11559 Andy Garcia is Smokin' Aces Source: Variety October 14, 2005 Andy Garcia has pacted to make the Joe Carnahan-directed Smokin' Aces his next film job, reports Variety. Garcia will join Jeremy Piven, Ryan Reynolds, Alicia Keys and Ben Affleck in the action comedy about an illusionist who snitches on the mob and has hitmen after him. Garcia will play the FBI director who tries to keep the cocky entertainer around long enough to testify. Universal and Working Title are producing. __________________ thinkmcflythink.com Movie fans, hop in your Delorean and check it out! "Now this life is etched in black but I wont be looking back, the rain washed out the tracks, I'll never find again"

10-14-2005, 07:50 AM	#7
Dark Donnie Kenny Powers is Back! Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 18,147	Re: Smokin' Aces (NEW Joe"Narc"Carnahan film) Cant wait for this...Piven finally has a front billing! __________________ Avvy by Hunter Rider

10-14-2005, 07:10 AM	#6
Carmine Falcone So it goes. Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Holland/Belgium Posts: 19,576	Re: Smokin' Aces (NEW Joe"Narc"Carnahan film) Sounds good, too bad Assfleck is in it... __________________ Come back to nothing special, such as waiting rooms and ticket lines, silver bullet suicides, and messianic ocean tides, and racial roller-coaster rides and other forms of boredom advertised as poetry.

10-14-2005, 08:39 AM	#8
Carmine Falcone So it goes. Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Holland/Belgium Posts: 19,576	Re: Smokin' Aces (NEW Joe"Narc"Carnahan film) I hope Ray Liotta gets a role in this.... __________________ Come back to nothing special, such as waiting rooms and ticket lines, silver bullet suicides, and messianic ocean tides, and racial roller-coaster rides and other forms of boredom advertised as poetry.

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Brian2887 Nerd. Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The City of Angels Posts: 4,723	Re: Smokin' Aces (NEW Joe"Narc"Carnahan film) Sounds great. Piven is hilarious and a great actor, and this should hopefully pull Affleck out of his slump. He gets a lot of hate just because of his love life. Not fair to the dude. Not to mention, Narc frikkin rocked. I can't wait to see what else Carnahan has up his sleeve. (I'm still hopin' he'll direct the Wolverine movie.) __________________ Salsa shark.

11-02-2005, 03:51 PM	#13
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11-02-2005, 08:44 PM	#15
Dark Donnie Kenny Powers is Back! Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 18,147	Re: Smokin' Aces (NEW Joe"Narc"Carnahan film) Piven I believe, he is the star __________________ Avvy by Hunter Rider

11-02-2005, 08:45 PM	#16
Hunter Rider Ronin SHH! Administrator Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Camp Manuel Posts: 121,369	Re: Smokin' Aces (NEW Joe"Narc"Carnahan film) Dammit,everytime this thread gets a post i keep hoping it's gonna be some pics from the movie __________________ thinkmcflythink.com Movie fans, hop in your Delorean and check it out! "Now this life is etched in black but I wont be looking back, the rain washed out the tracks, I'll never find again"

11-02-2005, 09:37 PM	#17
Dark Donnie Kenny Powers is Back! Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 18,147	Re: Smokin' Aces (NEW Joe"Narc"Carnahan film) Sorry to disappoint __________________ Avvy by Hunter Rider

11-02-2005, 09:50 PM	#19
Dark Donnie Kenny Powers is Back! Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 18,147	Re: Smokin' Aces (NEW Joe"Narc"Carnahan film) IMDB says it filmed on 10/21/05 at The Horizon Casino & Caesers Casino __________________ Avvy by Hunter Rider

11-05-2005, 10:59 PM	#20
imago Side-Kick Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 162	Re: Smokin' Aces (NEW Joe"Narc"Carnahan film) Piven is not the star. The film is an ensemble through and through.

11-06-2005, 11:54 AM	#21
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11-08-2005, 10:12 AM	#22
Carmine Falcone So it goes. Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Holland/Belgium Posts: 19,576	Re: Smokin' Aces (NEW Joe"Narc"Carnahan film) Synopsis BUDDY "ACES" ISRAEL (Jeremy Piven) is a Vegas card sharp cum gangster and former member of the La Cosa Nostra (LCN), one of the largest criminal organizations in the United States. In exchange for a vanishing act with Witness Protection, Israel (who is currently hiding out in the penthouse of The Nomad Casino in Lake Tahoe with his posse of bodyguards and hookers), has agreed to testify against his former mentor, PRIMO SPARAZZA, and the LCN. When the terminally ill Sparazza takes out a $1 million contract on Israel's life, word quickly spreads through the underground crime world. The catch: Sparazza wants Israel's heart. FBI agents RICHARD MESSNER (Ryan Reynolds) and DONALD CARRUTHERS (Ray Liotta) learn that Sparazza has hired "a specialist" to do the job and that rogue LCN members SERNA and PADICHE are also recruiting someone to take Israel out. Realizing that it is only a matter of time before the rest of the world is hipped to Israel's whereabouts and seeks to cash in on the contract, FBI director STANLEY LOCKE (Andy Garcia) dispatches Messner and Carruthers to Lake Tahoe to secure their key witness. Simultaneously, bail bondsman JACK DUPREE (Ben Affleck) and ex-cops HOLLIS ELMORE (Martin Henderson) and PETE DEEKS (Pete Berg) are hired by Israel's lawyers - who were left holding the bag when Israel skipped bail - and sent to Tahoe to pick him up and return him to Vegas. Meanwhile, Serna and Padiche's recruits: diva assassins GEORGIA SYKES (Alicia Keys) and SHARICE WATTERS (Taraji Henson), master of disguise: LAZLO SOOT, torture extremist: PASQUALE ACOSTA and neo-Nazis: THE TREMOR BROTHERS all make their descent on Lake Tahoe with the same intention - take out Israel by any means necessary. Chaos ensues as hit men and FBI converge on the penthouse of The Nomad - bullets fly, loyalties shift and lives end - and shocking secrets are revealed involving FBI cover-ups, hidden motives and true identities. __________________ Come back to nothing special, such as waiting rooms and ticket lines, silver bullet suicides, and messianic ocean tides, and racial roller-coaster rides and other forms of boredom advertised as poetry.

11-08-2005, 12:02 PM	#23
skorponok ---------- Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: SoCal Posts: 7,323	Re: Smokin' Aces (NEW Joe"Narc"Carnahan film) Ryan Reynolds as an FBI AGENT??!?!?! Affleck as a Bail Bondsman???!?!?!? FOr some reason I see these roles really working...espescially since Reynolds is apparently going to be along with Ray Liotta a lot...that should be...very, very interesting...

11-09-2005, 07:56 PM	#24
skorponok ---------- Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: SoCal Posts: 7,323	Re: Smokin' Aces (NEW Joe"Narc"Carnahan film) Bump...

01-12-2006, 08:27 AM	#25
Dark Donnie Kenny Powers is Back! Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 18,147	Re: Smokin' Aces (NEW Joe"Narc"Carnahan film) Alicia Keys hits the right acting notes By Marilyn Beck and Stacy Jenel Smith Though Ryan Reynolds had his doubts about working with Alicia Keys in Joe Carnahan's recently wrapped "Smokin' Aces," he says the singer has much stronger film chops than he expected. "Going in you're thinking, 'Oh, God, this is going to be tough. Am I going to have to slow down so they can keep up?' But that wasn't the case at all," he lets us know. "I'm surprised she hasn't done a movie before because she's so natural. She's going to blow everybody away." The action comedy, which also includes Ben Affleck, Andy Garcia, Don Cheadle and Jeremy Piven, is "about a Mafia, Vegas-showman kind of guy who ends up in Tahoe and is about to become a witness in a federal case against the mob," explains Reynolds. "I'm the FBI agent with Ray Liotta, who's assigned to go get him and bring him back alive - but at the same time there are eight different assassins that are all converging on the same hotel suite in Tahoe." This is from the LA daily news http://www.dailynews.com/entertainment/ci_3367834 I didn't know Don Cheadle signed on __________________ Avvy by Hunter Rider

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