When Narc director Joe Carnahan first concieved Smokin' Aces, the screenplay was over 185 pages in length. Producer Liza Chasin said "It was unmakeable, and it was also fantastic. It was the most original piece of writing any of us had read in a long time.”

The shooting script was roughly 50 pages lighter, but still contained scenes and sequences which ended up on the cutting room floor. But fear not super-friends, Joe Carnahan promised us that a Directors Cut would be released on DVD.

"I always refer to it as the orphanage for the Deleted Scene is on the DVD," Carnahan joked to slashfilm.com in an interview on Monday. "Your children always reunite with their loving parent."

"I coulda made the film two hours and forty five minutes, no problem, admitted Carnahan before admitting that the film needed a faster pace.

Carnahan revealed "There is a scene between Ryan Reynolds and Martin Henderson near the end that was kinda extraneous but I really liked it. But ultimately it wasn't the connective tissue that the film needed."

Some scenes were trimmed back for time, one Tremor Brothers scene was cut entirely, but the big surprise is that at one point even Joe had to draw the line on excessive violence: "Ryan Reynolds and Ray Liotta's characters had a conversation about a Swedish hit-man, and there was actually a Swedish hit-man who had spent two days beating himself to death with his own broken arms that I thought was kind of excessive. I thought it was funny as hell, but it didn't really have a place. In the freakish universe of Smokin Aces, you can actually imagine that there is stuff that even I thought 'you know what, I should probably not include that."

The DVD release will also feature some alternative endings.

"The screenplay ended differently originally."

Caranahn didn't go into further details. I guess we'll have to wait for the DVD release.

Smokin Aces hits theaters nationwide on January 26th 2007.