Back in 2005, Nicolas Cage starred alongside Ethan Hawke and Jared Leto in the arms dealing satire “Lord of War,” which was loosely based on real-life criminal Viktor “Merchant of Death” Bout, who was recently part of an American-Russian prisoner exchange that involved WNBA star Brittney Griner coming home.
In an interview with The Playlist to promote his new film “The Surfer,” Cage revealed that out of all the upcoming sequels to his films, including “Face-Off 2” and “National Treasure 3,” he’s most optimistic about Andrew Niccol’s “Lord of War” follow-up coming together. Referred to as “Lords of War” by Cage, and has a script that the Oscar-winning actor digs, which explores Yuri Orlov’s son becoming a “gunrunner” himself.
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“I think the most real [sequel], in my view, would maybe be ‘Lords of War,’ the sequel to ‘Lord of War.’And I like that script a lot. And I like Andrew Niccol. And the other projects, I haven’t even seen a script, so I don’t really know what is or isn’t happening,” Cage said of the prospect of upcoming sequels coming down to completed scripts.
“But I can tell you that the ‘Lords of War’ script, which I’m very much supporting and is fascinating from an Arthurian, almost kind of storytelling aspect, where the son becomes the lead gunrunner. And it’s complex. And I like that about Andrew Nichol and his scripts and his movies, that they’re always very complex and well thought out and kind of intellectual, which is what he is.[Niccol is] an intellectual. And so, yeah, I think that one is exciting and could very well happen.”
While Cage couldn’t get too deep into details about his upcoming Marvel series “Spider-Man Noir,” he did touch upon what excites him about doing the superhero television series.
“I had seen television work that I thought provided a new length of narrative of storytelling where perhaps you could have more time to build something. And, you know, it was a new experience that, again, will hopefully keep me invigorated,” Cage said the format of television being a good way of telling a narrative over a period of time in comparison to film.
Cage reiterated the secrecy surrounding the period Marvel series, “The studio has this very, like, five-inch thick cone of silence. I can’t talk about it as much as I’d like to talk about it. But I will say it’s a very different experience than filmmaking.”
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-Additional reporting by Mike DeAngelo