I wasn't a big fan of Joe Carnahan's Blood, Guts, Bullets and Octane, but the low-low-budget crime thriller was successful enough to land the guy a big-time studio gig. That project was Narc, which I dug quite a bit, to my pleasant surprise. (Hey, I'm a sucker for Ray Liotta's tough guy routine.) For a while there it looked like Carnahan was going to direct Mission: Impossible 3 for Paramount, but obviously that plan fell through.The good news is that his latest flick, entitled Smokin' Aces, looks pretty darn wild. The teaser trailer kicks off with an amusing misdirection before settling into a mega-kinetic typhoon of mayhem, so why not check it out? (Frankly the flick looks a lot like last February's Running Scared, and that's just fine by me.)
Featuring the likes of Jeremy Piven, Ben Affleck, Ray Liotta (cool!), Ryan Reynolds, Andy Garcia, Peter Berg, Alicia Keys, Jason Bateman and the underrated Nestor Carbonell, Universal's Smokin' Aces is scheduled for a February 2007 release. Ack, February?
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8-06-2006 @ 7:16PM
ihatemovies said...
Scott, the trailer link doesn't work. Too bad, I liked "Narc" a lot (at least until the final fifteen minutes) and am very interested in this. Know what the correct link is?
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8-07-2006 @ 5:18AM
culturalelite said...
you can grab it in quicktime format here...
http://www.box.net/public/6vbbpbj8ix
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8-07-2006 @ 1:31PM
josh said...
"the low-low-budget crime thriller was successful enough to land the guy a big-time studio gig. That project was Narc"
What? Narc was an independent production. It was picked up for studio distribution after it was completed, because Tom Cruise saw it and thought it was great (and because, probably, he thought Carnahan was THE GUY to direct MI3, a project which he eventually dropped off of)...
But no, Narc was not a big time studio gig, it was a $7.5 million independent that got a wider release and ad campaign because of Cruise/Wagner.
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8-07-2006 @ 2:01PM
Scott Weinberg said...
Josh,
Thanks for the correction. I should have double-checked that before posting it.
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