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Virgin Comics, the publishing company bankrolled by Richard Branson, is adapting The Sadhu for the big screen ...
Virgin Comics, the publishing company bankrolled by Richard Branson, is adapting The Sadhu for the big screen as a starring vehicle for Nicolas Cage, Variety reported. The script will be written by spiritual author and Virgin Comics co-founder Deepak Chopra.
The Sadhu, Created and written by Chopra's son, Gotham, chief creative officer of Virgin Comics, combines action and mythology from India. Cage will play James Jenson, a soldier who travels to India during colonial times and becomes a spiritual warrior.
Norm Golightly, Cage's Saturn Pictures partner, will produce with Gotham Chopra and Virgin Comics CEO Sharad Devarajan.
Cage, a big comic fan, will star next year in the Mark Steven Johnson- directed Marvel Comics adaptation Ghost Rider for Columbia Pictures. He also has made a deal with Virgin Comics to publish Enigma, a voodoo-laced thriller Cage hatched with his 15-year-old son, Weston. They are eyeing that, too, as a potential feature.
Enigma revolves around a murder investigation in New Orleans, with a detective discovering the killings are directly related to the events of a fiery rebellion on a Southern plantation during the Confederacy. The comic will be published as a five-part monthly series beginning in March.
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