Nicolas Cage's Vodka-Loving Dragon Series HIGHFIRE Being Developed at Paramount+
Nicolas Cage’s vodka-loving dragon series project, Highfire, has moved from Amazon to Parmount+. The series is based on Eoin Colfer’s adult thriller novel, and Cage will provide the voice of the lead character.
The story is described as being True Detective-meets-Pete’s Dragon, and it’s a “genre-bending, live-action” series and “gritty crime-thriller with doses of magical realism.” Its central character, Highfire (Cage), is “a vodka-drinking, Flashdance-loving dragon who lives an isolated existence in the bayous of Louisiana.”
Once upon a time, “dragons ruled the earth and Lord Highfire ruled the dragons from his eyrie. But this is not once upon a time, this is now, and now all Lord Highfire rules is his shack in Louisiana’s Honey Island Swamp. Highfire has become plain old ‘Vern’ and, by day, he hides out among the alligators, watches cable-TV and drinks obscene amounts of vodka to pass the time. It isn’t much of a life but he’s alive to live it, and Vern is prepared do whatever it takes – even if its violent – to preserve his own hide. When Vern’s world collides with a human teen named Squib, who becomes mixed up in some trouble while running booze for the local mob, their mutual struggle for survival becomes entangled in the most unlikely of friendships.”
This sounds like it will be an incredibly fun series to watch! It’s being adapted for television by Davey Holmes, who is the creator of Epix’s Get Shorty TV series. The project is being produced by MGM with Holmes and Cage also executive producing alongside Andrew Mittman.
I’m excited to see how this series turns out! It sounds like a great story!
Source: Deadline