He’s Sexy! He's Famous! He’s mysterious! His voice, it drives you crazy, you want to hear more, you’ll want to know what he’s betting on. And now... He's a great poker player!
In 2007, An Oscar winner Nicolas Cage has been signed to play legendary poker player Amarillo Slim Preston, in a movie about the gambler's life.
Nicolas Cage is slated for a new role, this one in the gambling world, where Cage would be betting on, and playing out a bit of poker history in his character Amarillo Slim, a professional gambler that was born in Arkansas, and is known as an icon in the poker world.
Amarillo Slim was made famous by both his skills at the poker table, and his reputation with proposition bets. The real life Amarillo Slim, four time World Series of Poker winner, was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 1992.
Nicolas Cage, who will play Slim in the movie, also met with the legendary gambler. After meeting Cage at the actor's home in Los Angeles. Amarillo Slim seemed convinced Cage was right for the role. "We hit it off good, we've become buddies,". The film was launched last December 25, 2008 and got poker players allured in the movie.
About Nicolas Cage: Cage's first film role was in his uncle's film Rumble Fish, in 1983. After being taunted by envious cast members who would refer to famous movie lines from his uncle's films, Cage decided to change his last name.
He chose Cage in honor of comic book superhero Luke Cage and the composer John Cage. His first audition as Nicolas Cage was for the movie Valley Girl, in 1983. Most of his financial successes have come from his forays into the action-adventure genre.
In his highest grossing film to date, National Treasure, he played a neurotic historian who goes on a dangerous adventure to find treasure hidden by the Founding Fathers of the United States.
His intense performance, which was helped by the fact that he had just recently broken up with his fiance, Kristen Zang, earned him an Oscar for Best Actor. After his Oscar win, Cage wanted to take on more of a superhero role and starred opposite Sean Connery in the 1996 summer blockbuster The Rock and the Ghost Rider.
The trend of summer blockbusters started at this point with Cage's role in 1997's Con Air and Face/Off, where Cage and John Travola switched identities.
Cage's producing career has seen more success. Shadow of the Vampire, the first film produced by Saturn Films, the company he founded with partner Norm Golightly, was nominated for an Academy Award. He also produced The Life of David Gale, a death penalty-themed thriller with Kevin Spacey and Kate Winslet.
Nicolas Cage admitted hes a poker shark: “I am not a demon, I am a lizard, a shark, a heart-seeking panther, I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion.”
Now, who wants to play poker with him?
In 2007, An Oscar winner Nicolas Cage has been signed to play legendary poker player Amarillo Slim Preston, in a movie about the gambler's life.
Nicolas Cage is slated for a new role, this one in the gambling world, where Cage would be betting on, and playing out a bit of poker history in his character Amarillo Slim, a professional gambler that was born in Arkansas, and is known as an icon in the poker world.
Amarillo Slim was made famous by both his skills at the poker table, and his reputation with proposition bets. The real life Amarillo Slim, four time World Series of Poker winner, was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 1992.
Nicolas Cage, who will play Slim in the movie, also met with the legendary gambler. After meeting Cage at the actor's home in Los Angeles. Amarillo Slim seemed convinced Cage was right for the role. "We hit it off good, we've become buddies,". The film was launched last December 25, 2008 and got poker players allured in the movie.
About Nicolas Cage: Cage's first film role was in his uncle's film Rumble Fish, in 1983. After being taunted by envious cast members who would refer to famous movie lines from his uncle's films, Cage decided to change his last name.
He chose Cage in honor of comic book superhero Luke Cage and the composer John Cage. His first audition as Nicolas Cage was for the movie Valley Girl, in 1983. Most of his financial successes have come from his forays into the action-adventure genre.
In his highest grossing film to date, National Treasure, he played a neurotic historian who goes on a dangerous adventure to find treasure hidden by the Founding Fathers of the United States.
His intense performance, which was helped by the fact that he had just recently broken up with his fiance, Kristen Zang, earned him an Oscar for Best Actor. After his Oscar win, Cage wanted to take on more of a superhero role and starred opposite Sean Connery in the 1996 summer blockbuster The Rock and the Ghost Rider.
The trend of summer blockbusters started at this point with Cage's role in 1997's Con Air and Face/Off, where Cage and John Travola switched identities.
Cage's producing career has seen more success. Shadow of the Vampire, the first film produced by Saturn Films, the company he founded with partner Norm Golightly, was nominated for an Academy Award. He also produced The Life of David Gale, a death penalty-themed thriller with Kevin Spacey and Kate Winslet.
Nicolas Cage admitted hes a poker shark: “I am not a demon, I am a lizard, a shark, a heart-seeking panther, I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion.”
Now, who wants to play poker with him?
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