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It's been a long time since I've seen a Nicholas Cage movie I actually liked**. The man isn't very discriminating when it comes to scripts. By that mean if there are actual words on a page and the storyline involves him sporting a ridiculous hair style, typically he'll jump on it. The guy is kind of a wack job. How else do you explain it? In the course of twenty years Cage went from making classics like Raising Arizona and Leaving Las Vegas to Drive Angry and Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance. And the guy named his son Kal-El. (That's right the Kryptonian name of Clark Kent aka Superman. I'm not joking.)
But I digress.
In any case Cage is set to team up with Richard Kelly, director of cult classic Donnie Darko in the crime thriller Amicus. Check out the plot:
spanning 25 years, [AMICUS] is based on the true story of
Lawrence Horn, a former record producer and Motown Records exec who is currently
serving a life sentence in prison for hiring Detroit-based hit man James Perry
to murder his wife, quadriplegic son and the wealthy family's overnight nurse at
their suburban home in Silver Spring, Maryland. Horn's son was the victim of
medical malpractice and as the result of a subsequent lawsuit, had a trust worth
nearly $2 million, which his father stood to inherit in the wake of his death.
Detectives discovered that Perry, who was sentenced to death in 1995 for the
brutal crime, used how-to book "Hit Man: A Technical Manual for Independent
Contractors" as a guide to execute the murders. The families of the victims went
on to file a class-action lawsuit against the Colorado-based publisher Paladin
Press. The attorneys representing the families then hired Smolla, a First
Amendment attorney and professor at William & Mary Law School, to consult on
the historic case, which took five years to settle amidst a series of shocking
and bizarre developments.
Cage is set to play Smolla. No other casting announcements yet but according to "Variety" the film starts shooting in June so expect more news in the near future.
*I'm sorry but I couldn't resist putting not one but two crazy pictures of Nic Cage up.
**I take that back. 2006's World Trade Center was actually really good.
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