“Nick Cage” read like the sort of character Nic Cage could play really well. Not only was it loaded with Cage references both obvious and obscure, it treated Cage as a three-dimensional character, one riddled with insecurities and eccentricities but striving to be a better person. And while Cage didn’t always have the liberty to be choosy with his projects during his debt-clearing VOD years, he’s remained protective of his public image and didn’t seem likely to sign onto a movie that would make a mockery of him.Įventually, I sought out the screenplay and liked what I read. He’d teamed with Gormican on the short-lived sitcom Ghosted, and interviews suggested they wouldn’t just be using Cage as a punchline. Etten had worked for David Letterman, Scrubs, and Workaholics. The script’s co-writers, Kevin Etten and Tom Gormican, had solid credentials. ![]() The Google alert I had set for “Nicolas Cage,” however, suggested otherwise. ![]() And while there’s no shortage of writing about Cage, no one had taken this sort of big picture approach. (Blink and you’ll miss him, but he’s in there, credited as “Nicolas Coppola.”) From a misfit ’80s star to winning Best Actor and becoming an action hero in the ‘90s to his decade in the VOD wilderness in the ’00s even as he was embraced, with varying degrees of irony, as a cult hero online, no one’s had a journey quite like Cage. I conceived Age of Cage not as a Cage biography or a history of his film work but as a close look at his career with a special emphasis on his evolving image and the ways in which his filmography reflects changes in Hollywood since his 1982 debut in Fast Times at Ridgemont High. ![]() On November 15, 2019, I was deep into researching my book Age of Cage: Four Decades of Hollywood Through One Singular Career when I received the news that made me step away from my laptop and wondered if I’d made a huge mistake.
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