John McTiernan’s ‘Shrapnel’ Moves Forward, But Likely Without Nicolas Cage
By Russ Fischer/July 15, 2011 8:30 am EST
John McTiernan’s conviction is waiting to go through the appeal process right now. In the meantime he has been trying to pull together a film called Shrapnel, based on a script by Evan Daugherty (Snow White and the Huntsman) and provisionally starring John Travolta and Nicolas Cage. So that Face/Off reunion is finally going to happen? That’s what it was looking like for a while. All those details are things we’ve known for some time, but now it looks like financing for the movie is finally falling into place. Unfortunately, it might happen without Nic Cage.
The Wrap offers a spotty recap of the general history of John McTiernan’s involvement with the Pellicano case and the basics of Shrapnel. Here’s the plot:
The site also says that Belgian financing is starting to come through, from the same company that financed The Devil’s Double. When The Wrap’s article first ran, it was optimistic that with financing in place, things would move forward quickly.
But two different reps for Nicolas Cage later contacted the site, saying that he is no longer involved in the film. So it won’t be a Face/Off reunion after all, and one wonders where that places the project with respect to financing.
