Nov 4 2009 This Nicolas Cage Movie Sounds Insane
Remember Drive Angry, the already-crazy-sounding upcoming film in which Nicolas Cage drives around trying to kill some other driving dudes who kidnapped his infant granddaughter? Well, if you didn't know, that's a movie coming out, and it sounds crazy, right? Par for the Cage course, but pretty crazy. Turns out it's even crazier! ShockTillYouDrop got their hands on a full synopsis, and you need to read it:
Drive Angry stars Nicolas Cage as Milton, a hardened felon who has broken out for one last chance at redemption. Hell bent on stopping a vicious cult of fanatics who murdered his daughter, he has three days to stop them before they sacrifice his infant granddaughter beneath a full moon. Milton must us his anger to go beyond all human limits in order to save his last connection with humanity.He's joined by Piper, a young sexy-smart waitress who liberates her ex-boyfriend's cherry red muscle car in order to help Milton. Now, the two of them are hot on the trail of the charismatic Jonah King and his murderous followers. King will throw every one of them faithful under the wheels of Milton's turbo-charged Black '71 Challenger, to fulfill hist destiny and unleash hell on earth.
But the bloodthirsty cult is the least of Milton's problems. The police are after him, too. And worse. An enigmatic killer known only as "The Accountant." The Accountant knows what Milton is trying to and and simply doesn't care. With wicked cunning and hypnotic savagery, the Accountant will relentlessly pursue Milton at high speed across the forgotten back roads of the American south.
Fueled by high octane and pure rage, Milton and Piper must battle the onslaught of King's disciples, avenge his murdered daughter, and save his granddaughter before his last chance at redemption is revoked.
Congratulations. You may pick up your Best Original Screenplay Oscar from either Steve Martin or Alec Baldwin.
Oct 23 2009 'Season of the Witch' Trailer Hits All the Bases, I Guess
A witch, a mutilated monk, and Nicolas Cage demanding Ron Perlman cut someone's head off? What more do you want from a film, Foreign Press???
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Oct 9 2009 'Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans' Trailer: Nic Cage is the Worst Lt. in This Port of Call
Nicolas Cage gets a lot of guff these days, and not without reason. Look at some of his recent catalog: Knowing? Bangkok Dangerous? National Treasure? National Treasure: Book of Secrets? Next? Ghost Rider? Just reading those titles makes my braintongue feel like it's licked a postage stamp. But those are just poor decisions; they don't necessarily reflect acting ability. I mean, who else can a director seemingly give only the instructions, "act crazy, like how Travolta would" and get whatever this is:
Sep 22 2009 Nicolas Cage as Superman/Superman Action Figure
Remember over a decade ago when Tim Burton was going to make a Superman movie? Me too! Why do we keep remembering that? Let's stop. Actually, before you stop remembering, breathe deeply with your eyes the above image that's been going around internet today to equal cries of "fake" and "LOL": the only known photo of what is supposedly Nicolas Cage's costume test for Burton's film.
Yes, I know it looks like Nicolas Cage's head blatantly pasted onto a plastic body. But would Japan's premiere Tim Burton fan site stake their name on a fake, putting at risk all the Tim Burton legitimacy the country has been building since the second World War? I have no idea. Either way, it is definitely ridiculous.
Sep 15 2009 Losing Nicolas Cage Is A-OK
While the loss of a Nicolas Cage would sent projects like Ghost Rider's Second or National Treasure 3: Another Book with Further Secrets into great turmoil, Michel Gondry and Seth Rogen's Green Hornet project has picked up the pieces of its now Cage-less life and moved on gracefully. The film, currently in production, lost Nic as its villain last week, but already its replaced him with Christoph Waltz, the 52-year-old actor whose performance in Inglourious Basterds has everyone saying, "That guy is really good at pretending to be a Nazi."
I wish I didn't know Nicolas Cage almost had the role. No matter how good Waltz's performance is, in the back of my mind I'll always be pondering how much more intense-faced it could have been.
Christoph Waltz Is Villain In 'Green Hornet' [Deadline Hollywood]
Sep 9 2009 'Green Hornet' Loses Its Cage
The Green Hornet now has a Nicolas Cage Score of -1! Or maybe just an NCS of 0, depending on how you want to look at it. According to Heat Vision Blog, negotiations for Nicolas Cage to play the villain in Michel Gondry and Seth Rogen's adaptation have fallen apart, and Columbia is looking for a new actor to fill the role.
Can I suggest Timothy Dalton for the part? I swear, it feels like forever since I've hated a dignified gentleman-villain with a pencil mustache.
Sep 4 2009 Bad Lieutenant, Best Tagline
Best Tagline: The only criminal he can't catch is himself - Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Best Subtitle: "Port of Call New Orleans" - Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Best Cutout of Nicolas Cage's Head with Blurred Edges: Nicolas Cage's Head - Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Best Nicolas Cage Face: Nicolas Cage's Intense Nicolas Cage Face - Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Best Ghost Rider Reunion: Nicolas Cage and Eva Mendes - Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Best Nicolas Cage Movie: Bangkok Dangerous
Aug 31 2009 Nicolas Cage Starring in New, Ridiculous-as-Expected Film
Still maintaining he has the look and hair of an action star, Nicolas Cage has signed on to star in Drive Angry, a 3-D action film where he'll play a guy trying to fucking kill some dudes who kidnapped his infant granddaughter:
[T]he story centers on a man (Cage) driven by rage who is chasing the people who killed his daughter and kidnapped her baby. The vendetta/rescue spins out of control as the chase gets bloodier by the mile, leaving bodies strewn along the highway.
So it's just Nicolas Cage driving along the open highway murdering some assholes? This is either going to be one of Cage's most ridiculous movies yet or a shockingly accurate adaptation of Road Rash.
Nicolas Cage gets 'Angry' in new 3D film [Heat Vision]
Aug 12 2009 More 'Kick-Ass' Con Clips: Still Sort of Kicking Ass
Maybe I'm just a sucker for seeing a man in a bird suit fall to his death and an 11-year-old girl get shot in the chest and murder a room full of men, but these new clips from Kick-Ass are looking so good I might have to eventually give a ticket vendor monetary compensation in exchange for viewing rights to this moving picture. That's the highest compliment I've given a film containing Nicolas Cage in years.
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Jul 21 2009 'Green Hornet' Getting More Questionable, Cagier
As if the idea of a Michel Gondry-directed action film starring Seth Rogen as a famous masked hero wasn't dubious (though admittedly intriguing) enough already, Variety is reporting some Green Hornet casting updates that should make the image of a question mark pop into existence above your head. Nicolas Cage and Cameron Diaz, both of whom seem nearly incapable of making a decent film without the involvement of Spike Jonze, are in talks to join:
Columbia Pictures is in early talks with Nicolas Cage to play the gangster villain in "The Green Hornet."Cameron Diaz is negotiating to play a reporter and love interest in the Michel Gondry-directed pic that stars Seth Rogen as the masked crime fighter.
The picture is moving full steam ahead for a fall start date, even as the studio looks to replace Stephen Chow, who was going to play sidekick Kato.
Well, I hope they're able to get Eddie Murphy's voice for Kato the Talking Cat. If they're set on making this the most improbable-to-succeed movie ever, that's going to be key.
May 28 2009 The Nicolas Cage Version of 'Bad Lieutenant' Has a Trailer, Favorite Crack Pipe
Calling this Werner Herzog-directed Bad Lieutenant a "remake" of the 1992 Abel Ferrara, Harvey Keitel-starring film isn't an entirely accurate description of what you're going to see in this trailer. This is more like someone dug up a lost promo for an "edgy" USA original series that stars Nicolas Cage as "a cop who breaks ALL the rules" and Val Kilmer as his straight-laced bayou partner, and is a terrible show that needs to be canceled:
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May 5 2009 Nicolas Cage Film Takes Out an Institution
Disaster on the set of The Sorcerer's Apprentice! While shooting a car chase sequence in Times Square yesterday, a stuntman in a Ferrari lost control and crashed into the front of a Sbarro's, injuring two and temporarily shutting down the one place in the city to get a genuine New York slice:
A movie chase scene got too realistic early today when a car jumped a curb during a film shoot and smashed into the entrance of a Times Square restaurant, injuring two people, police and witnesses said.The action scene gone awry unfolded at the Sbarro at 47th Street and Seventh Avenue shortly before 1 a.m.
Street closing notices posted by the police indicated the shoot was for the Nicolas Cage film, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice."
(via Digg)
Oh, good, Jerry Bruckheimer and National Treasure-director Jon Turteltaub managed to squeeze a high-speed Ferrari chase into The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Sounds like they might have slightly tweaked the original 1797 Goethe poem. Who would have thought?
Well, regardless, let's hope no one else gets injured during shooting. They still have to shoot the big scene where the apprentice fires a rocket launcher while hanging one-handed off the wing of a Harrier.
Crash video below the cut.
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Feb 12 2009 'Knowing' Trailer: Treat Yourself to More Nic Cage Face
I don't care enough to watch the old ones and check, but I think this is new, international trailer for Knowing. Even if it's not, this is a good chance to re-watch and try to figure out what the big reveal at the end is going to be. We know the series of seemingly-random numbers some girl wrote in 50-year-old time capsule predict the dates of future disasters, but HOW!? And what is Nicolas Cage going to do about it!? I'm guessing he somehow sacrifices himself to make the numbers not add up, thus saving Earth. Then we flash back to 1958 and see the girl scratching out the last date, and we all breathe a sigh of relief, but then she writes a new disaster date that's set for like 2012, and we're like, "Shit, sequel!" Or maybe it's just ghosts or aliens or something.
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Jan 30 2009 'Ghost Rider 2': They've Got All Those Spare Leather Jackets Lying Around Anyway
The world's bored, collective sigh at the closing of Ghost Rider still wasn't enough to extinguish the fiery skull of its protagonist. Bloody Disgusting is reporting that Columbia Pictures is officially looking for screenwriters to get to work on a sequel:
It's pretty shocking that it has taken this long for a sequel to get a move on, but finally Columbia Pictures is gearing up for GHOST RIDER 2, the sequel to the smash-hit comic book adaptation from 2007 that saw Nicolas Cage as a stunt motorcyclist Johnny Blaze who gives up his soul to become a hellblazing vigilante, to fight against power hungry Blackheart, the son of the devil himself. What we learned this evening is that Columbia Pictures is officially out to writers to pen the sequel and that Nicolas Cage is in fact attached and signed on to return.
I'm honestly surprised it's taken this long for an official writing call when the special effects team has already been working on action sequences:
Dec 12 2008 Nicolas Cage Makes Nicolas Cage Faces in 'Knowing' Trailer, Stills
In Knowing, Nicolas Cage has found a pattern of numbers that predicts every major disaster that has or will happen, and you can really tell he's concerned about this discovery. Just look at the Nicolas Cage expressions in these new production photos. Such intensity. Could this simple door (above) be one of the disasters foretold in the numbers? With such a look of chiseled consternation, you can tell Nicolas Cage isn't going to dismiss the possibility.
Here's a new, acting-filled trailer for the film:
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Nov 17 2008 Will Nic Cage Ever Not Look Like a Fool in a Movie?
No. He will always look at least somewhat foolish.
Take, for example, our man Cage in Season of the Witch, in which he escorts a woman accused of being a witch to a mountain abbey, and looks like a fool. I would never take this guy seriously as a Highlander, or a Vigo the Carpathian, or whatever he's meant to be. It's just Nic Cage in some goofy clothes, and on a horse.
First Look at Nicolas Cage in 'Season of the Witch' [Bloody Disgusting]
Sep 22 2008 Nicolas Cage is The Transporter for Witches
Is there any role Nicolas Cage can't play? No. He can and should play every role. A skeleton motorcyclist? Nailed it. John Travolta wearing the face of Nicolas Cage? Swish. A National Treasure? Yes, he definitely is. And now he's also a 14th century knight escorting a purported witch. From Variety:
Nicolas Cage will reteam with director Dominic Sena for the supernatural thriller “Season of the Witch” for Relativity Media.Story chronicles the journey of 14th century knights transporting a girl suspected of being the witch responsible for spreading the Black Plague.
I hope he plays it really stilted and raspy-voiced, and there's a scene where the witch girl is holding him and she whispers, "Why won't you let me get close to you?" And his raspy voice responds, "Because you might have the Black Plague. Plus, there's the witch thing," and then he has to defy the king's will to save her. I expect nothing less from the team that brought us Gone in Sixty Seconds.
Sep 4 2008 'Ghost Rider 2' Will Be Exciting, European
Speaking with MTV, Nicolas Cage revealed that, in complete disregarding the common good, a second Ghost Rider movie will most likely happen, and that "there have been talks and good ones with where to go with the character." Oh, like discussing going in a more gritty, realistic, Dark Knight-like direction with the character, or something like that? Nope. More like discussing literally where on the planet Earth Ghost Rider should be located. The consensus: Europe!
“It looks like it will take place in Europe and the character will work with the [Catholic] Church. It’ll be a completely new experience. It’s exciting.”
Skeptical? Yeah, I was too. Until I saw this BRAND NEW, NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN EXCLUSIVE CLIP from Ghost Rider II: Europe! It looks really good:
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Aug 22 2008 Nic Cage is 'Kick-Ass', as if You Didn't Know That
The Hollywood Reporter has announced that Nicolas Cage, Aaaron Johnson, and Lyndsy Fonseca have joined McLovin in the cast of Kick-Ass:
Written by Millar and drawn by John Romita Jr., the Marvel Comics' Icon imprint book centers on a high school dweeb named Dave Lizewski who decides to become a superhero even though he has no athletic ability or coordination. Things change when he eventually runs into real bad guys with real weapons.Johnson plays the dweeb and title character, while Fonseca plays the object of the teen's infatuation who believes Dave is gay. Cage is a former cop who wants to bring down a druglord and has trained his daughter (Chloe Moretz) to be a lethal weapon.
Man, Nic Cage? I hear the comic is supposed to be pretty solid, but going in with Cage is like boxing with one arm behind your back, and that arm is held by wig glue and Wicker Man reviews.
Then again, I've got a good feeling Bangkok Dangerous will redeem him.
Aug 1 2008 Nic Cage Will Make You 'Scared Straight'--Out of the Theater, That Is! Ha!
A few weeks ago, a friend of mine rented Scared Straight, the popular film covering the program in which life-term inmates graphically describe the horrors of prison to young delinquents in the hopes of getting them "scared straight," or at least "scared of prison rape."
My friend's thought was that it would be hilarious to see these guys freaking out some kids now that we'd aged beyond their target audience. He was right, and it was pretty funny (especially when the one-eyed guy holds up the binder and goes through his crimes), but it was also surprisingly terrifying. I can safely say there is nothing more those guys could have done to make me more fearful of jail. Outside of starting a riot and forcing an imprisoned Nic Cage to save me, that is! Which is now a movie:
Nicolas Cage and director John Carpenter are in final negotiations to team up for a prison thriller titled "Scared Straight.""Straight" follows a troubled youth who's sent to prison off the Scared Straight crime-prevention program, which imprisons delinquent teens for a short period in the hopes of deterring them from a life of crime. While the teen is there, a riot breaks out and the prisoners take him hostage. A lifer, played by Cage, is forced to help the young man out.
Nicolas Cage will definitely be playing this guy:
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