Nicolas Cage, John Carpenter Get Scared Straight

Nicolas Cage and renowned director John Carpenter are about to team up for a prison drama called Scared Straight, in which Cage would play a lifer who is forced to help out a delinquent kid from a crime-prevention program who happens to be there when a riot breaks out and gets taken hostage. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor director Rob Cohen was attached to direct at one point, but he’s scaled back to producer. Carpenter’s touch on a project like this will be interesting to see, as he’s known for being off-center with his approach.

Watch video of John Carpenter’s body of work:
Watch the trailer for John Carpenter’s Ghosts of Mars, starring Ice Cube and Natasha Henstridge.
Watch the trailer for Village of the Damned, starring Christopher Reeve and Kirstie Alley.
Watch the trailer for Memoirs of an Invisible Man, starring Chevy Chase and Daryl Hannah.
Watch the trailer for his masterpiece They Live, featuring the longest fight scene ever filmed between Roddy Piper and Keith David.
Watch a trailer and a bunch of clips from his classic Big Trouble in Little China, starring Kurt Russell and Kim Cattrall.
Watch the trailer for Starman, starring Jeff Bridges and Karen Allen.
Watch the trailer for the Stephen King story adaptation Christine, about a killer car.
Watch a spot from The Thing, also starring Kurt Russell.
Watch a trailer for Escape From New York, starring Russell as Snake Plissken.
Watch the trailer for the original Halloween, starring Donald Pleasance and Jamie Lee Curtis.