Nicolas Cage Reflects on Westerns: ‘The Genre Is Something I’ve Always Admired’
By Movieguide® Staff
Actor Nicolas Cage has a diverse Hollywood resume, and he’s adding a Western to that list with his upcoming movie, THE OLD WAY.
The NATIONAL TREASURE star said that Westerns have always held a special place in his heart since childhood.
“The Western genre is something I’ve always admired,” Cage told Fox News. “I grew up watching my favorite Western performance, Charles Bronson as Harmonica in ‘Once Upon a Time in the West.’’
“I grew up in California, used to watch these movies on my little TV, and I live in Nevada. I always felt like I would be a good match for a Western,” he continued. “They wouldn’t be that much acting for me. I felt like I could fill those boots and wear that hat.
“When the script came to me for the first time, a traditional Western script, I thought, ‘Well, yeah, I’m going to do that.’ You’re going to pay me to put on … and dress the way I like to dress, and wear the cowboy hat and homage to some of my favorite movie stars of all time and yell? I’m there. My stomach rumbles like anybody else’s. So it was absolutely I was in ’cause I’m not getting any younger, and I didn’t know if I’d be invited again, so I had to do it.”
The IMDb synopsis of THE OLD WAY reads: “An old gunslinger and his daughter must face the consequences of his past, when the son of a man he murdered years ago arrives to take his revenge.”
Movieguide® has yet to review THE OLD WAY and cannot advise on its content.
Movieguide® previously reported on the likelihood of Cage’s return for NATIONAL TREASURE 3:
After years of waiting, fans of the original NATIONAL TREASURE movies, starring Nicolas Cage and Jon Voight, received a series in the same universe called, NATIONAL TREASURE: EDGE OF HISTORY.
Many saw the new series as a sign that there would no longer be a third movie added to the franchise.
However, Producer Jerry Bruckheimer recently encouraged fans to not count out the prospect of another movie, starring Nicolas Cage.
“We said we’d like to make another National Treasure and they said, ‘Sure, let’s come up with a new cast,’” Bruckheimer said of their new relationship with Disney. “At the same time, we were developing National Treasure for the theaters with Nicolas Cage—which we still are. So, that’s ongoing.”
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