Nicolas Cage To Direct And Star In Adaptation Of Joyce Carol Oates' 'Rape: A Love Story'

Fourteen years ago, Nicolas Cage made his directorial debut with "Sonny," a small-scale drama starring James Franco about a soldier who returns home from war and falls into prostitution. Reviews weren't kind, and the picture hardly did any business at the box office. But time heals all wounds, and Cage is getting back behind the camera.

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Cage will direct and star in an adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates' "Rape: A Love Story." The movie, which will have the title changed to the slightly less provocative "Vengeance: A Love Story," has a script from John Mankiewicz ("House," "House of Cards"), with the story kicking off on the Fourth of July, when 12-year-old Bethie Maguire flags down Niagara Falls Police Detective John Dromoor (Nicolas Cage). Bethie’s mother, Teena, has been brutally raped by four meth heads, was left for dead, and is being nursed back to health by her mother,...