“My place is the Enterprise. My family is Star Trek.”
Nicolas Cage is neither created nor destroyed, he only transforms. And while we are still stunned after the first trailer for ‘Renfield’, in which Cage becomes Count Dracula himself, the artist continues to think of new and challenging projects.
The actor has closed 2022 after playing himself in ‘The unbearable weight of a huge talent’ and has started 2023 with the US premiere of an old-fashioned western (literally), ‘The Old Way’, and precisely in the promotion of the latter, in a promotional interview with Collider, Cage has been approached about the possibility of joining one of the most profitable franchises in history: Star Wars..
His fondness for comics is well known (his stage name, Nicolas Cage, comes from the Marvel superhero Luke Cage), but Star Wars is not so funny. The interpreter prefers Star Trekhis archenemy in terms of sci-fi movie fandom:
I’m a Trekkie, man, I’m on the Enterprise. I grew up watching William Shatner, I thought Chris Pine was great in movies… I think movies are great. I like the political, the sociological… to me, what science fiction is really about and why it’s such an important genre is that it’s where you can really say whatever you want, no matter how you feel. You put it on a different planet, you put it in a different time or in the future and that’s it. You can really express your thoughts like Orwell in the sci-fi format, and Star Trek really embraced that. I think they got into things that really mattered. I’m not in the Star Wars family, my family is Star Trek.”
Hopefully your dream can come true in the not too distant future. We remember that the Star Trek franchise is on an indefinite hiatus after the reboot made by JJ Abrams in 2008 and the two films that followed. A fourth installment has been on the table for several years, becoming involved in a spin-off Quentin Tarantino himselfalthough in the end no agreement was reached.
Recently, the writer Patrick McKay (‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’) revealed to esquire the details of what would have been (or could become) the fourth chapter of the saga, reuniting Chris Hemsworth and Chris Pine. “The conceit was that through a cosmic quirk in the world of Star Trek, they would be the same age. It was going to be a great space adventure between father and son: think about ‘Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade’ in space. We were very excited about it.”
Source: Fotogramas
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