{"id":1068,"date":"2012-11-07T16:16:52","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T23:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/paperbacktheology\/?p=1068"},"modified":"2012-11-07T16:16:52","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T23:16:52","slug":"nicholas-cage-in-talks-to-revive-the-left-behind-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/paperbacktheology\/2012\/11\/nicholas-cage-in-talks-to-revive-the-left-behind-series.html","title":{"rendered":"Nicholas Cage In Talks To Revive the “Left Behind” Series"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

This just in from Salon.com<\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s all been leading to this. And I don\u2019t just mean the long-ago dreams of Georges M\u00e9li\u00e8s to transform fantasy into cinematic vision. I speak, of course, of everything the authors of the Book of Revelation were talking about. World,\u00a0Nicolas Cage is set to do a remake of \u201cLeft Behind.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0What is there to say beyond, \u201cShould we put up our umbrellas now, because it\u2019s about to start raining blood?\u201d<\/p>\n

You may recall\u00a0the original \u201cLeft Behind.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0It\u2019s the \u201cStar Wars\u201d of\u00a0rapture-action movies, the 2000 blockbuster that spawned two sequels and is the single biggest reason that Kirk Cameron still gets booked on talk shows to explain why Darwin was wrong. Based on Tim LaHaye\u2019s apocalyptic best-seller, \u201cLeft Behind\u201d tells the tale of Buck Williams, one of the unfortunate denizens of the human race who don\u2019t get to skip out on a buttload of tribulations the Bible warned about, and is instead saddled with battling the Antichrist.<\/p>\n

There are ancient prophecies. Lots of stuff blowing up. Ominous warnings about \u201cseven years of peace.\u201d And dialogue like, \u201cBut I am turning over my formula to a consortium of U.N. delegates!\u201d In other words, what took Hollywood 12 years to see that this crap has Nic Cage\u2019s name written all over it? Fortunately, that\u2019s about to change. Variety reports the actor is now in negotiations for\u00a0\u201ca mainstream reboot\u201d<\/a>\u00a0trilogy from the \u201cfaith-oriented\u201d Cloud Ten Pictures. So it\u2019ll be mainstream. But faith-based. That should be old hat to Cage, who knows all about AAAAAGLLLLLUUUUUGGGHing his way through films with religious themes. Three words:\u00a0Not. The. Bees.<\/a>\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Frankly, if you\u2019re going to reboot a series, I imagine it\u2019d be far more lucrative to just send Buck Williams back to high school for a good old-fashioned, product tie-in rich origin story. I\u2019m sure the angels drink Sprite and Logan Lerman\u2019s not getting any younger, guys. But if there\u2019s a grown-up reimagining of one of the most unusual blockbusters God ever created, it\u2019s somehow only fitting that Nic Cage \u2013 former sorcerer and Ghost Rider \u2014 would be the star. His recent movie history certainly reads like a harbinger of the End of Days anyway. And \u00a0while his latest endeavor may not summon the Beast, it\u2019s a fair bet that it represents a little death for all our moviegoing brain cells.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

No comment from television\u2019s Kirk Cameron as of yet!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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