John Carpenter's Riot (Nicolas Cage)

[Cody]

Might as well make (http://www.f13-community.co.uk/board/showthread.php?t=1120) another (http://www.f13-community.co.uk/board/showthread.php?t=1926) thread, at least one of these Carpenter projects is bound to - or damn well better - happen.

Cage, Carpenter team up (http://www.aintitcool.com/?q=node/37743) for prison film (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3i7208006e0cd8646940a78734a60b592d)

Nicolas Cage and director John Carpenter are in final negotiations to team up for a prison thriller titled "Scared Straight."

Nu Image/Millennium Films would finance the film and is in negotiations with Contrafilm's Beau Flynn and Tripp Vinson along with Randall Emmett and George Furla to produce.

"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.

AFM (http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/14200)

According to the AFM film book, John Carpenter's SCARED STRAIGHT has officially been retitled to RIOT.

Produced by Nu Image, Nicolas Cage is still toplining the film that follows a death row inmate who is helping to reform a group of juvenile delinquents in a Scared Straight program when a large-scale riot breaks out.

The screenplay was written by Joe Gazzam.

[Jack Bauer]

Cage plus Carpenter equals some good film.

But still Cage seems to lack in his roles lately.

[Jigsaw]

This sounds promising, and I'm a fan of both Cage and Carpenter. Definitely something I'll check out.

[Spook]

Damn, I hope this is good. I want to see a Carpenter film, dammit! I hope this doesn't end up bad. Look at Romero and the state of his last two films. Yikes. Here's to hoping Carpenter still has his touch. I wasn't exactly blown away by Ghosts of Mars, but it was still pretty entertaining.

[Trioxin]

I'm a fan of Carpenter's They Live, The Thing, Escape From New York, Escape From L.A., and the original Assault on Precinct 13. I have never been too fond of Cage though. I'm not shooting this film down, but I don't have any expectations for it.

[The Dream Master]

Creepy. I was just looking at the threads for Carpenter's two other films in development (LA Gothic and Psychopath) yesterday and was wondering what ever came of those two.

[Andiac]

I thought Cage retired from acting after the second National Treasure...

[Spook]

Well didn't he do Bangkok Dangerous after NT2?:lmao:

[4BarrelHemi]

Sounds like a decent story. I just wish Carpenter would go back to his 80's style of soundtracks for it.

[Cody]

I thought Cage retired from acting after the second National Treasure...

He kind of retired from acting a decade ago. He still stars in movies, though. :X

Riot promo poster (http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=50281)

[The Dream Master]

You know, judging from the thread title, I kind of got the idea that this was going to be a documentary about that one time Carpenter didn't get one of his checks for Halloween. :X