As his big-screen adaptation of Marvel’s Ghost Rider gets set to open on Feb. 16, actor Nicholas Cage is already moving on to two more comic-book ventures. He has signed on to play the lead role in a movie based on Virgin Comics’ hit series The Sadhu, and has also co-created a comic titled Enigma with his 15-year-old son, Weston Cage, to be published by Virgin.
Written and created by Gotham Chopra, The Sandhu deals with dormant potentialities’both divine and diabolical’that exist in all of us. It is also about the struggle between the sacred and the profane when archetypal energies awaken in our consciousness, according to best-selling author and co-founder of Virgin Comics, Deepak Chopra, who will write the screenplay for the film.
The Cage father-and-son duo are developing Enigma with Gotham Chopra. Set in post-Katrina New Orleans, the story focuses on a dark character resurrected by a group of Voodoo practitioners to be a defender of the victimized and an enemy to criminals. Despite his terrifying appearance, Enigma is a very well-mannered gentleman who becomes a rage-filled machine when he has to be. Weston Cage is also an actor who appeared with his father in the recent film Lord of War.
Enigma will be published as a five-part comic book released monthly beginning March 2007. The stories will be collected and republished as a graphic novel for worldwide audiences during fourth quarter of 2007.
Virgin Comics was formed in November of 2005 by Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group, along with Deepak Chopra, filmmaker Shekhar Kapur and South Asian comic publisher Gotham Entertainment Group LLC. With offices in New York City and Bangalore, India, the company puts out such titles as Devi, John Woo’s Seven Brothers, Snakewoman and Ramayan 3392 A.D.
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