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Cage, Carpenter may team up for prison film


August 01, 2008 Nicolas Cage and director John Carpenter are in final negotiations to team up for a prison thriller titled "Scared Straight." Nu Image/Millennium Films would finance the film and is in negotiations with Contrafilm's Beau Flynn and Tripp Vinson along with Randall Emmett and George Furla to produce. "Straight" follows a troubled youth who's sent to prison off the Scared Straight crime-prevention program, which imprisons delinquent teens for a short period in the hopes of deterring them from a life of crime.

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