I read the title for this story Nicolas Cage is an Electric God and thought instantly we were in comic book land, was he going to play that Electro character guy, no, surely not he couldn’t make it to a movie on his own. Then I read the story through Coming Soon and was totally wrong.
Nicolas Cage will star in Electric God for director Mark Pellington, says Variety.
David Murray adapted the script from the novel by Catherine Ryan Hyde(Pay It Forward).
The story concerns a man who lives an isolated life in hopes of controlling his violent temper but finds redemption when forced to reach out to others.
A good return to some serious work for Cage and hopefully more successful than some previous roles. Personally when I think of cage now I think of his performance in 8MM, story aside that man’s performance and range through that film is superb. Struggling with so many inner demons and still managing to break through it all. I loved that performance.
Now I know there’s going to be a lot of contention on that one. You’re all surely going to say I’m wrong and choose earlier works…
Thanks for that Skye. Yeah, totally agree and not suprised, more thankful!
He was astounding in that movie. I’ll check out your site.
Hi Richard.
I have just read your comments and it sounds like this may surprise you, but I totally agree with you on Nic’s performance in 8MM. It is a very dark subject matter I admit, but Nic did a superb job of portraying T.W., I think it is a performance he should be very proud of.
Any actor who pulls this type of character off, must have had to delve into a part of his mind one would rarely want to visit.
The subject matter, sadly, is all too real and I feel the end result did justice to anyone who may have experienced this in life.
I am now looking forward to hearing more on ‘Electric God’ and today I started a new page on my site for this movie along, with adding new pics from ‘Ghost Rider’ for fans to enjoy.
Skye – Cage by Page Webmistress
http://www.cagebypage.com
I really liked him in The Matchstick Men.
Donna A.