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Rose Byrne Opposite Cage in KNOWING

By: Jarrod Sarafin
Date: Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Source: Hollywood Reporter

Director Alex Proyas has a lead actress locked down for his return to the genre of sci-fi thrillers. Rose Byrne (Sunshine, 28 Weeks Later) has landed the lead role opposite Nicolas Cage in the sci-fi thriller Knowing, reports Variety. Alex Proyas (I, Robot) will direct the screenplay by Ryne Douglas Pearson, with script revisions by Juliet Snowden, Stiles White, Stuart Hazeldine and Proyas. Escape's Jason Blumenthal, Todd Black and Steve Tisch will produce with Topher Dow. Norm Golightly and David Bloomfield are executive producers. Production is set to begin March 25 in Melbourne, Australia.

Plot Concept: Byrne will play the daughter of a woman who buried a 1962 time capsule bearing the dates of the assassinations of historical figures, the hotel fire death of the wife of a professor (Cage) and an imminent world apocalypse. After the professor discovers its contents and alerts her, the initially skeptical Byrne begins remembering strange incidents from her childhood.


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ponyboy76 • Mar 04, 2008, 06:04am •
Cool, I like Alex Proyas.

fft5305 • Mar 04, 2008, 07:49am •
Me too. And Cage. And Byrne. Jjust saw Sunshine and it was incredible. Excellent movie. She was good in it, too. Highly recommend it.

javaone • Mar 04, 2008, 09:17am •
I like the story concept. Could make for a pretty cool movie.

scoundrel • Mar 04, 2008, 10:37am •
That's a lot of screenwriters.

I do like Proyas and Rose Bryne, though. Nic Cage is okay, but I'm kinda burned out on him. Still, hopefully Proyas can do something cool.

jedi4sshield • Mar 04, 2008, 03:37pm •
Right at the end Nicholas Cage looks at the screen with his thumbs up, fire and smoke in the background and says " And KNOWING is half the battle" (Cue the sparkling teeth).

almostunbiased • Mar 04, 2008, 04:19pm •
I'm interested in this. Sounds cool.

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