Next is a 2007 film, loosely based on the science fiction short story "The Golden Man" by Philip K. Dick. The film is directed by Lee Tamahori and stars Nicolas Cage, Julianne Moore, and Jessica Biel. The film was released on April 27, 2007.
Will, a poor player who bears an uncanny resemblance to Shakespeare, auditions on stage in front of Peter, a busy producer with his nose in the trade papers, hardly noticing Will's extraordinary performance. Will, using the prop of a life-sized doll and changing costumes with magical speed, acts out brief scenes at the heart of Romeo and Juliet, Richard III, As You Like It, Hamlet, Antony and Cleopatra, Othello, Titus Andronicus, Merry Wives, the Tempest, the Winter's Tale, and other of the Bard's plays. It's an infinite variety show, and finally Peter's attention is on Will. What will the producer say when Will finishes? Written by
The majority of exterior scenes were shot during an unplanned tropical rainstorm. Although difficult to film in, they lent the movie a striking, overcast look.
Erin Collins was a contestant on Survivor: Thailand.
During post-production, the Summers brothers asked The Real World music supervisor Dave Stone if he knew anyone who could do a Fight Club (1999)-style score. Stone recommended Art Hodge who had actually worked on the Fight Club soundtrack. Hodge agreed to do the film and brought his accomplished partner Aaron Wall as well.
Biograph production number 2678.
Based on the Frederick Burr Opper's "Alphonse and Gaston" comic strip.
Las Vegas showroom magician Cris Johnson has a secret which torments him: he can see a few minutes into the future. Sick of the examinations he underwent as a child and the interest of the government and medical establishment in his power, he lies low under an assumed name in Vegas, performing cheap tricks and living off small-time gambling "winnings." But when a terrorist group threatens to detonate a nuclear device in Los Angeles, government agent Callie Ferris must use all her wiles to capture Cris and convince him to help her stop the cataclysm. Written by Jim Beaver
