From Zap2it.comhttp://tv.zap2it.com/tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,271|97919|1|,00.htmlLOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) Nicolas Cage has become the latest Hollywood A-lister to do business with the Sci Fi Channel, signing on to executive produce a movie/pilot for the cable network.
Cage's company, Saturn Films, and Lions Gate TV are backing a two-hour movie called "The Dresden Files." The movie is based on a series of novels by Jim Butcher about Chicago private eye Harry Dresden, whose sleuthing abilities are aided by the fact that he's a wizard.
The movie is scheduled to begin shooting later this fall, with Toronto standing in for the Windy City, and is due to premiere next summer. If it does well enough, Sci Fi has an option to pick it up as a series.
Hans Beimler ("The District") and Robert Wolfe ("The 4400"), who worked together on "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine," are writing the script for "The Dresden Files," which will introduce Dresden and the unique way he works. He's able to see otherworldly forces at work in cases that look like run-of-the-mill crimes, and sometimes consults with the police when they need a supernatural hand.
In keeping with detective-fiction tradition, Dresden also maintains a cockeyed outlook on the world around him and is quick with a one-liner.
Beimler and Wolfe will join Cage as executive producers of the project, as will Morgan Gendel and Saturn's Norm Golightly.
The "Lord of War" star and Oscar winner, who this week gave his baby son the sci-fi name Kal-El, joins several other showbiz bigshots in signing up with the Sci Fi Channel. In December the channel will unveil "The Triangle," a Bermuda Triangle miniseries produced by Bryan Singer ("X-Men") and Dean Devlin ("Independence Day"). Directors Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese and Frank Darabont are attached as producers of other projects in the works at Sci Fi.
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