There's no question that director Richard Kelly has given us some pretty imaginative movies over the past decade, from Donnie Darko to Southland Tales to The Box. While the quality of his output has been pretty uneven, he continues to offer up wildly original ideas and it's always interesting to see what he might have in mind for his next project. Although we thought his next movie was going to be a thriller called Corpus Christi with Edgar Ramirez attached to star, this week it appears that something else is taking priority instead. Kelly is now in the process of teaming up with Nicolas Cage for Amicus, a courtroom drama based on a bizarre true story. Intrigued? Hit the jump for the full plot synopsis. According to Variety, Nicolas Cage will play Rodney A. Smolla, a First Amendment lawyer who took on a lawsuit over a book that was allegedly...
- 9/27/2012
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
Nicolas Cage and filmmaker Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko, The Box) are teaming up for the true crime thriller titled Amicus that spans over 25 years and follows the bizarre aftermath of a brutal murder.
Amicus, which refers to the term ‘amicus curiae,’ a person not directly engaged with a case who’s allowed to advise the court, revolves around Lawrence Horn, a former music producer who was sentenced to death for hiring a hitman to murder his wife, quadriplegic son, and night nurse in their Silver Springs, Maryland mansion.
It was later discovered that Perry had consulted the Paladin Press book ‘Hit Man: A Technical Manual for Independent Contractors’ to plan the triple-murder, which lead to the victims’ families filing a class-action lawsuit against the publisher.
Kelly will scribe and direct with Cage playing Rodney A. Smolla, a First Amendment attorney who seemingly went up his personal and professional principles...
Amicus, which refers to the term ‘amicus curiae,’ a person not directly engaged with a case who’s allowed to advise the court, revolves around Lawrence Horn, a former music producer who was sentenced to death for hiring a hitman to murder his wife, quadriplegic son, and night nurse in their Silver Springs, Maryland mansion.
It was later discovered that Perry had consulted the Paladin Press book ‘Hit Man: A Technical Manual for Independent Contractors’ to plan the triple-murder, which lead to the victims’ families filing a class-action lawsuit against the publisher.
Kelly will scribe and direct with Cage playing Rodney A. Smolla, a First Amendment attorney who seemingly went up his personal and professional principles...
- 9/27/2012
- by Nick Martin
- Filmofilia
Richard Kelly and Nicolas Cage are joining forces for a true crime courtroom drama called Amicus . Variety has the news, saying that Kelly will write and direct with Cage playing Rodney A. Smolla, a First Amendment attorney who seemingly went up his personal and professional principles in a complicated lawsuit related to multiple homicide. Smolla himself wrote about the case in 1999's "Deliberate Intent: A Lawyer Tells the True Story of Murder by the Book". His text is officially described as follows: Early in 1992, Lawrence Horn hired a contract killer to execute his ex-wife and his severely brain-damaged son. On March 3, 1992, the man he hired, James Perry, traveled to Silver Spring, Maryland, and murdered Horn's ex-wife and child and the boy's nurse. Perry used...
- 9/26/2012
- Comingsoon.net
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