I know that Nic Cage took a bit of a stumble with his last genre effort (GHOST RIDER), but I don’t think we should count ol’ H.I. McDunnough out yet. His next effort, called KNOWING (which my man Eric last spoke about here) sounds like an intriguing little head-trip. Plus, it’s got the brilliant Alex Proyas as its director, who certainly knows a thing or two about imaginative flicks (THE CROW, DARK CITY, I, ROBOT). The full synopsis for KNOWING as well as its teaser poster (above) have just been released. Take a gander:
In 1958, as part of the dedication ceremony for a new elementary school, a group of students is asked to draw pictures to be stored in a time capsule. But one of the students, a mysterious girl who seems to hear whispered voices, fills her sheet of paper with rows of apparently random numbers instead.
Fast forward 50 years to the present: A new generation of students examines the contents of the time capsule and the girl’s cryptic message ends up in the hands of young CALEB MYLES. But it is Caleb’s father, professor TED MYLES (Nicolas Cage), who makes the startling discovery that the encoded message predicts with pinpoint accuracy the dates, death tolls and coordinates of every major disaster of the past 50 years. As Ted further unravels the document’s secrets, he realizes it foretells three additional events—the last of which hints at destruction on a global scale and seems to somehow involve Ted and his son. When Ted’s attempts to alert the authorities fall on deaf ears, he takes it upon himself to try to prevent more destruction from taking place.
This gripping supernatural thriller charts one man’s faltering steps towards belief in the ultimate order of the universe even as he finds himself surrounded by mounting chaos. With the reluctant help of DIANA WHELAN (Rose Byrne) and ABBY, the daughter and granddaughter of the now-deceased author of the cryptic prophecies, Ted’s increasingly desperate efforts take him on a heart-pounding race against time until he finds himself facing the ultimate disaster—and the ultimate sacrifice.
In the hands of a lesser director, I could see how this plot could turn cheesy. However, with Proyas calling the shots, I’m predicting that KNOWING will deliver in all the right, catastrophic places. In addition to Cage, it also stars Rose Byrne (below), Chandler Canterbury, Ben Mendelsohn, and Adrienne Pickering. It is set to open some time this year.
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