Bruce McDonald eyeballing Nic Cage for lead in new psycho-thriller
When we talked to Bruce McDonald a few months back about his jailhouse rock movie, Music From The Big House, we mentioned the approximately 9 million projects the tireless Toronto director is currently working on. Well, now we can add to this a Nic Cage movie. Maybe.
Citing a Canadian Press report in the Halifax Chronicle Herald, which apparently gets all the big scoops, Indiewire reports that the Pontypool director is currently eyeballing the last of the independents, Nic Cage, to bring his air of edgy mania to Dark Highway, a $25 million thriller (about the budget of every Bruce McDonald movie ever made thus far times three) about a fugitive who can’t tell the difference between fantasy and reality. McDonald notes that nothing is locked in, and it’s still a matter of scheduling. But given Cage’s tendency to star in films that sound exactly like this, we remain hopeful.
It’s one step closer to realizing our dream of there being one degree of separation between Nicolas Cage and Julian Richings, who we’re assuming will also be in the movies. And between this news and TIFF’s Nic Cage retrospective, it’s like Canada is becoming a second home, of sorts, for Cage. (He was also directed by Canadian 3-D genre-meister Patrick Lussier in last year’s Drive Angry, which was far and away better than that other movie about drivers driving.) So, Nic Cage, let us be the first to extend to you an offer to relocate to Canada—a magical pseudo-socialist Shangri-La where all your tax worries will waft away like so much snow being blustered off a gathering drift.
