Oh rapture! Left Behind (2014) S: Nic Cage
10-20-12, 08:27 AM
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Oh rapture! Left Behind (2014) S: Nic Cage
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Stunt Icon Vic Armstrong to Direct Nicolas Cage in 'Left Behind' (Exclusive)
3:27 PM PDT 10/19/2012 by Borys Kit
The legendary stunt coordinator is in negotiations to direct Nicolas Cage in what producers hope will be a new trilogy of movies.
Legendary stunt coordinator and second-unit director Vic Armstrong is making a very rare jump into the director’s chair for the rebooted Left Behind movie.
Armstrong is in negotiations to direct Nicolas Cage, who is making a deal to star in what producers hope will be a new trilogy based on the mega-successful Christian-themed books written by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins.
Paul Lalonde, who was one of the producers of the original, independently made series that starred Kirk Cameron, is producing the action thriller with Michael Walker. Jay David Williams of Family Screen Partners is exec producing.
The movies were political thrillers that focused on the End of Days and the Rapture. Those Christian beliefs are again the focal point of the new movie, but the story will be more in the mold of a classic disaster film. The plot unfolds during the first few hours after the Rapture and focuses on the survivors.
Producers are working with a budget in the $15 million range and are aiming to shoot the first movie in spring 2013 in Baton Rouge, La.
Armstrong is an icon in the stunts and second-unit circles. He was Harrison Ford’s stunt double in Raiders of the Lost Ark (he’s the guy that goes flying head first out of the movie truck, then moments later slides underneath it using his whip) and Christopher Reeve's double in Superman and Superman II before turning to designing death-defying feats and action sequences.
His work encompasses stunt and second-unit work on Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the original Total Recall, the Pierce Brosnan James Bond movies, Mission: Impossible III, Thor and The Amazing Spider-Man.
While he directed a couple of episodes of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, the only time the Gersh-repped Armstrong has ever directed a feature was in the early 1990s when he helmed the Dolph Lundgren action movie Army of One.
3:27 PM PDT 10/19/2012 by Borys Kit
The legendary stunt coordinator is in negotiations to direct Nicolas Cage in what producers hope will be a new trilogy of movies.
Legendary stunt coordinator and second-unit director Vic Armstrong is making a very rare jump into the director’s chair for the rebooted Left Behind movie.
Armstrong is in negotiations to direct Nicolas Cage, who is making a deal to star in what producers hope will be a new trilogy based on the mega-successful Christian-themed books written by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins.
Paul Lalonde, who was one of the producers of the original, independently made series that starred Kirk Cameron, is producing the action thriller with Michael Walker. Jay David Williams of Family Screen Partners is exec producing.
The movies were political thrillers that focused on the End of Days and the Rapture. Those Christian beliefs are again the focal point of the new movie, but the story will be more in the mold of a classic disaster film. The plot unfolds during the first few hours after the Rapture and focuses on the survivors.
Producers are working with a budget in the $15 million range and are aiming to shoot the first movie in spring 2013 in Baton Rouge, La.
Armstrong is an icon in the stunts and second-unit circles. He was Harrison Ford’s stunt double in Raiders of the Lost Ark (he’s the guy that goes flying head first out of the movie truck, then moments later slides underneath it using his whip) and Christopher Reeve's double in Superman and Superman II before turning to designing death-defying feats and action sequences.
His work encompasses stunt and second-unit work on Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the original Total Recall, the Pierce Brosnan James Bond movies, Mission: Impossible III, Thor and The Amazing Spider-Man.
While he directed a couple of episodes of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, the only time the Gersh-repped Armstrong has ever directed a feature was in the early 1990s when he helmed the Dolph Lundgren action movie Army of One.
10-20-12, 09:43 AM
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re: Oh rapture! Left Behind (2014) S: Nic Cage
They are hoping to strike oil like with all the other books that have become hit movie series.
The problem is we are approaching the events in the LEFT BEHIND books now.
Why bother when you'll be able to watch the 24hr. news on cable for what happens next.
The problem is we are approaching the events in the LEFT BEHIND books now.
Why bother when you'll be able to watch the 24hr. news on cable for what happens next.
10-20-12, 10:28 AM
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Suuuuuuuurrrre.
But will the events on TV news be in 3D?
10-20-12, 10:34 AM
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re: Oh rapture! Left Behind (2014) S: Nic Cage
Also...fucking money, bitches. Make money while you can, man.
10-20-12, 10:35 AM
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10-20-12, 10:57 AM
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Even people 5000 years ago thought they were living in the end times. You will always have nutjobs believing the end is near. Its no different now than it was 5000 years ago. Violence, corruption, and disobedient kids will always exist just as they have since the beginning of time.
10-20-12, 07:05 PM
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Sounds good, I'll just skip this in theaters then!
10-20-12, 09:10 PM
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Our extinction is much more likely to be similar to "Knowing". Not something pretend like Left Behind.
10-20-12, 09:36 PM
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In this version, everyone will be partying because they don't have Kirk Cameron bothering them with his stupidity anymore.
10-20-12, 10:16 PM
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Now why can't someone make a Rapture movie like that...
10-20-12, 11:06 PM
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More like zombie slayin' because the Rapture is going to be the zombie apocalypse. Jesus was the original zombie to rise from the grave. The Rapture will be Zombie Jesus coming back and all the Christian zombies will rise from their graves to ascend to heaven, but not before they chow down on the brains of all the sinners.
Now why can't someone make a Rapture movie like that...
Now why can't someone make a Rapture movie like that...
10-20-12, 11:18 PM
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Cage hasn't had a hit or a good movie in years. Why roboot something that didn't even sell well with the number one Christian actor in the world?
10-20-12, 11:34 PM
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Count on lopez to bring the zany.
10-21-12, 08:17 AM
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re: Oh rapture! Left Behind (2014) S: Nic Cage
Nic Cage can make almost anything interesting, but my issue with this is that he already covered the apocalypse territory in Knowing, which was a bad film, but had some very good moments. With Knowing's "sciencification" of the end times, signs, angels and even the rapture, I'm not sure what Cage is looking for here that's new.
10-21-12, 09:28 AM
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More like zombie slayin' because the Rapture is going to be the zombie apocalypse. Jesus was the original zombie to rise from the grave. The Rapture will be Zombie Jesus coming back and all the Christian zombies will rise from their graves to ascend to heaven, but not before they chow down on the brains of all the sinners.
Now why can't someone make a Rapture movie like that...
Now why can't someone make a Rapture movie like that...
I'm rethinking this whole God thing.
I really hope we're at the end of times.