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Nicolas Cage as Ye Olde Transporter
Nicolas Cage is a busy man -- very busy. He's got 10 films slated for release over the next couple of years. While I'll readily admit to anyone that I enjoy quite a few of Cage's pre-1990 movies, I'm hard-pressed to come up with an explanation as to why he's gotten so much work since then. There have been a couple of good performances in the nearly 20 intervening years, but there have also been those so wooden that I thought he would turn out to be the titular character in 2006's The Wicker Man. Well, add film #11 to the slate: Variety reports that Cage is set to star as a 14th century knight transporting a suspected witch in Relativity Media's Season of the Witch. Did a real-life witch lose a bet or something?
If you feel a small, piercing pain behind your eyes, relax. This is just the brain's normal response to imagining Nic Cage as a 14th century knight doing his best Jason Statham impression. Hell, just imagining Cage as a 14th century anything might be a painful stretch. [I don't know, this sounds less like The Transporter and more like 14 Blocks, where Bruce Willis has to take a witness to the courthouse without getting offed. Maybe call it 14 Furlongs? - Zach]
A lot will depend on the team behind the scenes. Dominic Sena will direct Cage for the second time, having also directed him Gone in Sixty Seconds. The screenplay is written by Bragi Schut, whose major credit up to this point has been creating and writing the doomed CBS sci-fi series, Threshold. The living cargo in Season is described as "a girl suspected of being the witch responsible for spreading the Black Plague." If this turns into a Bangkok Dangerous on horseback, which of these guys will get the blame?
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