Cage and Carpenter are Scared Straight!
Nicolas Cage and director John Carpenter are supposedly ready to team up for prison thriller Scared Straight.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Scared 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.
An October production date is likely but is unsure at this point.
I love Nic Cage though most of his recent stuff, to me it has fallen short. I think this is a good role for him and it is always good to see John Carpenter in the director chair. Prison films are hit or miss though and this one seems to have a somewhat interesting plot based around a hostage situation involving the “scared- straight” program, which I think is a somewhat unique idea. This is one of those that I will have to wait and see what a trailer looks like. Cage’s next upcoming film is Bangkok Dangerous, where he plays an assasin in Bangkok that helps a deaf and mute girl.
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