Based on Philip K. Dick's novel "The Golden Man" and directed by Lee Tamahori (Die Another Day), NEXT stars Nicolas Cage, Julianne Moore, Jessica Biel, Thomas Kretschmann, Tory Kittles, and Peter Falk. Cage, who has been in box office hits like National Treasure, Gone in Sixty Seconds, Con Air, and Face/Off, is also a co-producer on NEXT. The movie NEXT is set to come out in theatres on April 27, 2007.
In NEXT, a Las Vegas showroom magician named Cris Johnson (or should we say "Magic" Johnson?) is at the centre of a mix of magic, terrorism, and a threat of a nuclear holocaust.
Cris has a secret talent that isn't as dangerous as the multiplier effect in "The Prestige," but it's just as scary because of what it can and can't do. Cris Johnson can see a few minutes into the future, but only that far. If you only have a few minutes, it must be hard to change the future, right? Still, there are some things he can change, which is why some organisations with their own vested interests are very interested in him.
He goes underground because the outside world's government and medical establishment are too interested in his unnatural gift and because he had to go through a lot of tests as a child. He keeps a low profile in Vegas and goes by a fake name. He gets by by doing cheap tricks and "winning" small amounts of money from gambling. But people who are especially talented are also especially "wanted." In this case, it's for a big-time need.
Everything is fine until a group of terrorists says they will blow up a nuclear device in Los Angeles. Time is running out, and the countdown to extinction has begun. Callie Ferris, a government agent, uses all of her smiles and tricks to find Cris and get him to help her stop the disaster that is about to happen and beat the clock. Cris has to choose between saving the world and saving the woman he loves, which is a hard choice. Is that an old saying or what? And that was all done in less than two hours!
Shot in Los Angeles, NEXT is an action thriller. Gary Goldman, the movie's Executive Producer, told Variety, "This is a movie that brings the excitement of video games to the big screen."
NEXT is made by Saturn Films and Broken Road, and its Executive Producers are Gary Goldman, Jason Koornick, and Ben Waisbren. Nicolas Cage, Norm Golightly, Todd Garner, Arne L. Schmidt, and Graham King all worked on making it.
