Las Vegas Weekly

August 17, 2010 · 5:39 PM

Takers cast members take to the red carpet at Lagasse’s Stadium tonight

By Don Chareunsy

Michael Ealy, Chris Brown, Idris Elba, Hayden Christensen and Paul Walker in Screen Gems' Takers.

Photo: Sony Pictures Digital

By Don Chareunsy, Vegas DeLuxe editor

Stars of the new bank heist film Takers from director John Luessenhop are scheduled to hit the red carpet at Lagasse’s Stadium in the Palazzo tonight after a screening at Rave Motion Pictures in Town Square and preceding a screening after-party at Lagasse’s Stadium.

Expected to appear on the red carpet are Takers stars Hayden Christensen, T.I., Idris Elba, Michael Ealy and Jay Hernandez. Joining them are Recycled Percussion of American’s Got Talent; Holly’s World stars Holly Madison, Josh Strickland and Angel Porrino (Madison and Strickland also star in Peepshow in Planet Hollywood, while Porrino is filling in for Madison when she goes on vacation in September); and DJ Cassidy.

The film, formerly titled Bone Deep, is about a group of professional bank robbers (Chris Brown, Ealy, Christensen, Walker and Elba) who specialize in spectacular robberies and are enlisted for one final job by a recently paroled colleague (T.I) only to be pitted against a detective (Matt Dillon) who interrupts their plans.

The movie also stars Paul Walker, Zoe Saldana, Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Johnathon Schaech. Interesting fact: Elba, who portrays a bank robber in the film, was an ex-pirate radio DJ when he started out in his hometown of London.

Check back right here at Vegas DeLuxe tomorrow for a report from tonight’s red carpet and party, at which T.I. is scheduled to perform and DJ Cassidy to spin the wheels of steel. Screen Gems’ Takers hits theaters Aug. 27.

Robin Leach has been a journalist for more than 50 years and has spent the past decade giving readers the inside scoop on Las Vegas, the world’s premier platinum playground.

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