Nicholas Cage, an unabashed comics fan

By M&C News Nov 14, 2006, 8:17 GMT

Fact: Nicholas Cage and his 15 year old son Weston, are unabashed comics fans.

Cage is already signed to star in Marvel Comics big screen adaptation of ‘Ghost Rider’ for Columbia Pictures.  Pic will be directed by Mark Steven Johnson.

Now Cage has pact with publishers Virgin Comics, which is bankrolled by Richard Bronson, to publish “Enigma”, a voodoo thriller Cage and Weston wrote.

Beginning next March, Enigma will be published as a five part monthly series. Story revolves around a murder investigation in New Orleans where investigating detective discovers killings are related to rebellion on a Southern Plantation during the Civil War.

Cage is looking to develop story as a feature.

Virgin is also bringing to the big screen ‘The Sadhu’ a spiritual epic tale scripted by Deepak Chopra, Virgin’s co-founder. Original story was created and written by Chopra’s son, Gotham who is CEO of Virgin Comics.

Cage has reportedly agreed to star in ‘The Sadhu’. He will play James Jenson, a soldier who travels to India in colonial times and becomes a spiritual warrior.

Branson joined Chopra and director Shekhar Kapur earlier this year to form Virgin Comics.

Company has a studio based in Bangalore, India, where a 100+ staff turn out comics and novels on subjects that meld the mythologies of Asia to action vehicles.