Nicolas Cage is SCARED STRAIGHT for John Carpenter
Prison thriller which will team the two veterans for the first time.
First Werner Herzog, and now another veteran who should know better has cast the almost useless Nicolas Cage for an upcoming thriller. This time it's John Carpenter but let's be honest, he has hardly been sane for years.
The movie is Scared Straight, a Nu Image/Millennium Films Production that for the umpteenth time will see Cage serving jail time (Con Air, Raising Arizona, Face/Off, The Rock)...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.Joe Gazzam wrote the original spec script which has since been redrafted by Ron Brinkenhoff (The Guardian). An October start date is planned. Apparently the movie was originally a Rob Cohen project, which further fuels my argument that Carpenter has gone insane. If the movie does actually get made, it will Carpenter's first since 2001's Ghosts of Mars. source - the hollywood reporter