Nicolas Cage Slated To Star In ‘Left Behind’ Reboot
Nicolas Cage is all set to star in the upcoming reboot of the Christian-based thriller Left Behind, Cinema Blend reports. The actor, who has been quite prolific as of late, is rumored to be attached to the forthcoming production. Although Cage’s detractors may think his cinematic choices are more than a little bizarre, they can never say the Ghost Rider star isn’t afraid to take risks.
It’s currently unknown what role Cage will tackle in the reboot. Regardless, his presence in the $15 million feature will no doubt help the motion picture get the attention it needs to be a box office success. Of course, a quick look at the amount of money the actor’s recent endeavors have generated suggests that his star power may not be as considerable as it was during the days of The Rock and Face/Off.
Directed by Vic Sarin and starring Growing Pains alum Kirk Cameron, the 2001 religious thriller Left Behind chronicles the adventures of those individuals left behind after the Rapture scoops up believers and carts them off to Heaven. Those who are still stranded on Earth soon discover that the Anti-Christ is getting ready to set up shop. While Nicolas Cage will likely portray the film’s hero, there’s always the possibility he could tackle the role of the Anti-Christ himself.
Internet Movie Database describes the original film as follows:
“Rayford Steele is an airline pilot whose relationship with his wife has gone sour;he ponders having an affair with an attractive flight attendant, Hattie Durham. In the midst of a flight to London, a number of their passengers mysteriously disappear, and chaos takes hold as a number of vehicles on the ground and in the air are suddenly unmanned. Meanwhile, Buck Williams, a television journalist, is pondering the rash of sudden disappearances as he works on a report about Dr. Chaim Rosenzweig, an Israeli scientist who has devised a formula that would make any soil on earth easy to cultivate.”
According to Variety, the Left Behind reboot will begin production next spring. If everything goes according to plan, the film will be released sometime towards the end of 2013. Samuel Goldwyn Films will provide theatrical distribution.
Do you think Nicolas Cage is the right choice for the Left Behind reboot?
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Posted: October 20, 2012
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Oct 20, 2012
Well I guess if he's still in financial trouble I guess he is the right guy for the part.
Oct 20, 2012
Gods word will be fulfilled, so if we are not living in the end times, I believe that we are getting close, the wars, biological warfare and terrorism, the natural and supernatural disasters, earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, lighting strikes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, algae eating up the coral in the sea, mercury, religious unrest, racial inequalities are still in existence, gas prices, environmental issues, moral and social standards are being dismantled. Man not taking his place as the head and not the tail. I just think God is getting a little tired of us, our lies, disobedience and lack of faith, its time for a clean and fresh start, like start all over. ( In the beginning ) So let be said, so let it be written, so let it be done. Break the tablets! Holla! am I ready NO, but we need to get ready!
Oct 20, 2012
I don't feel we are at the end of times unless we think we are. I believe we are making our own realities every minute of everyday. It changes as the world' perspective changes. To assure the world stabilizes and endures into the future the masses need to come together in unity. The world needs to become one. We need to allow the diversity of people and their perspectives and we need to function from a place of love. We need to feel love and think loving thoughts, be kind and understanding to those around us. Then I think you'll see the worlds problems diminish.
Oct 20, 2012
Beginning of the last days.
Oct 20, 2012
"Face off" springs to mind!
Oct 20, 2012
I loved Nicolas Cage in "Knowing"
Oct 20, 2012
Never seen that one, but I was referring to him pretending to be someone else! You should never do that apart from acting.
Oct 20, 2012
I pray that when the End of times come, we get like a year's warning. I would like to prepare for the end and I am sure others will. The warning should be more significant than that of earthquakes, tsunamis and all those other disasters. I would like for GOD to peak through the Heavens and say something like "The End will happen on Jan 1, 2014! I hope that's not asking too much.
Oct 21, 2012
PRETRIB RAPTURE VETTING.
"If politicians need vetting, so do evangelical 'rapture' promoters who make millions palming off a 19th century fantasy as Bible fact – a fantasy that's anti-Catholic, anti-Jewish, and anti-Muslim!"
This is what journalist/historian Dave MacPherson began thinking in 1968.
Since then he's been vetting those who've been trafficking in what is known theologically as the "pretribulation rapture" – everyone from John Darby to John Walvoord and John Hagee.
To see just a scrap of MacPherson's voluminous "library" of vetting, Google "The Unoriginal John Darby," "Pretrib Rapture Diehards," "X-Raying Margaret," "Edward Irving is Unnerving," "Walvoord Melts Ice," "Thomas Ice (Bloopers)," "LaHaye's Temperament," "Pretrib Hypocrisy," "Appendix F: Thou Shalt Not Steal," "Pretrib Rapture Secrets," "Pretrib Rapture Dishonesty," and "Pretrib Rapture Politics" (anti-Catholic, anti-Jewish, and anti-Muslim!).
Or better yet, get his 300-page nonfiction book "The Rapture Plot" (see Armageddon Books) – a veritable "internet" on the long hidden history of this 182-year-old, fringe-British-invented pretrib rapture craze!
BTW, many of MacPherson's articles are on the "End Times Passover" blog owned by Southern California media figure Joe Ortiz.
Oct 21, 2012
We all need to take up a collection for Cage, as he is obviously completely out of money.
Oct 21, 2012
Those books were great!
Oct 21, 2012
… for leveling coffee tables and lining litter boxes.
Oct 21, 2012
Oh, no! Janine and I can apparently no longer be friends ;(
Oct 21, 2012
At least he beings real-world experience to the role in the trajectory of his career. When you need someone to become unkinged and have a bombastic meltdown in the face of "forces beyond control", Cage is THE guy. And role for role, nobody has more on-screen experience claiming Pyrrhic victories from the Forces of Darkness than him.
Oct 21, 2012
*brings