What's Next for Cage, Biel, and Moore
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Biel has joined the cast of Next, a film adaptation of
Philip K. Dick's The Golden Man. Dick's short story is about
a man who can not only see into the future, but is also allowed and empowered to change the events that he sees.
Needless to say, the FBI eventually gets wind of his abilities, and wants to use them to deal with big, international
concerns - stuff like, say, stopping global terror attacks. That sort of thing. The man, played by Nicolas Cage, "ultimately is faced with the choice of saving
himself or the world." (Whenever I read a plot summary like this, I think of that SNL sketch with Christopher
Walken, about the trivial psychic. Why does everyone in sci-fi movies have huge, eminently useful powers?)Biel will play Cage's love interest (she runs afoul of terrorist, somehow), and Julianne Moore also has a major role in the film. Directed by Lee Tamahori of xXx: State of the Union and Die Another Day "fame," Next isn't expected in theaters until 2007.
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2-23-2006 @ 12:29PM
Finished.Law.School said...
I'll watch it because Biel is in it.
Any word on what they will do for Cage's hair in this film? I hear they used a dead rat in the Ghost Rider film...
There are photos of this as proof but I do not remember the url...
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2-23-2006 @ 3:36PM
Mike said...
When are they going to stop mining Dick's work to make bad films? I just pray Richard Linklater and Charlie Kaufman will not destroy a Scanner Darkly, because it's the only one I have any hope for.
Incidentally, wasn't that Trivial Psychic bit a parody of walken's role in the Dead Zone?
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