We'd love to have seen a wide-eyed Nicholas Cage reading of Liam Neeson's most famous Taken monologue,' I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don’t have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that’ll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you'
...and, in a way, we just might get to hear that or something quite similar based on his latest project. News comes that Cage will headline the action thriller Tokarey, directed by Spanish Film-maker Paco Cabezas (Neon Flesh), from a script by Jim Agnew and Sean Keller. The plot follows a reformed criminal who comes home to find that his daughter has been kidnapped by the Russian mob,...so he rounds up his old crew and seeks his own brand of justice.
But hang on? Wasn't that the plot for last year's Stolen directed by Simon West, where Cage also played a reformed criminal who's daughter has been kidnapped?
Maybe its a sequel of sorts from a parallel universe or a symptom that Hollywood knows when to get mileage out of a popular plot... Of course, there's many a Cage film from an alternae reality that we WOULD have liked to see - if only for curiosity's sake, that never got made her. Cage as Superman? The discussed possibility of a Cage / Sean Connery sequel to The Rock, which would have followed Goodspeed & Mason on the run after the events of the first movie and being targeted by a team of rogue SAS operatives working in the States.