Cage Sets up FILES With Sci-Fi

By: News Editor
Date: Thursday, October 06, 2005
Source: Variety

Nicolas Cage has set up THE DRESDEN FILES, based on Jim Butcher's bestselling novels, with the Sci-Fi Channel. The two-hour pilot for the series will be written by Hans Beimler and Robert Wolfe.

The story centers on Harry Dresden, a wizard who makes his living as a Chicago-based private eye. Using his extraordinary abilities to see the paranormal forces behind crimes, Dresden helps the police solve their more baffling cases.

Nicolas Cage, Hans Beimler, Robert Wolfe, Norm Golightly and Morgan Gendel will executive produce.

Sci Fi's Mark Stern said, "It's very much a detective procedural with a speculative sci-fi spin." He went on to note, "What the script did so well was to make the fantasy elements integral to (rather than superimposed on) the plot."