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Release Date: April 27, 2007
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Director: Lee Tamahori
Screenwriter: Gary Goldman
Starring: Nicholas Cage, Julianne Moore, Jessica Biel
Genre: Action, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
 Plot Summary: In this adaptation of Philip K. Dick's 'The Golden Man', Nicholas Cage plays a man who can see into the future and change it any way that he wants. As he tries to avoid capture by a government organization, he must win the love of a woman (Julianne Moore) who he learns will be the mother of his child.
Nicolas Cage... will star and Lee Tamahori will direct the action thriller "Next" for Revolution Studios. Cage will also produce the pic, based on "The Golden Man," a story by sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick.
CRIS Johnson is a magician...
with a secret gift that is both a blessing and a curse. He has the ability to tell you what will happen next.
Johnson (Nicolas Cage) can see a few minutes into the future, an extra-sensory talent that comes in handy for his job as a magician and physic in a seedy Las Vegas club. It also has its uses at the blackjack tables when he needs some extra cash.
But his dexterity with the portals of time has not gone totally unnoticed and the club security guards are watching through their all-seeing casino floor cameras, eager to decipher his knack for consistently beating the odds.
FBI counter-terror agent Callie Ferris (Julianne Moore) is also keen to tap into his gift to help thwart a terrorist group planning to attack Los Angeles with a weapon of mass destruction.
With a nuclear time bomb ticking, Cris could be the key in averting a nuclear holocaust.
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Production Begins on Revolution's Next
Source: Revolution Studios April 19, 2006
Filming has begun in Los Angeles on Revolution Studios' Next, a science fiction action thriller starring Academy Award® winner Nicolas Cage, Academy Award® nominee Julianne Moore and Jessica Biel, it was announced today. The film, which is being directed by Lee Tamahori, will be released domestically by Columbia Pictures in 2007.
IEG Virtual Studios, an affiliate of Initial Entertainment Group, holds the international distribution rights. Next is being produced for Revolution Studios by Cage and his Saturn Films producing partner Norm Golightly, Broken Road Productions' Todd Garner, Initial Entertainment Group's Graham King and Arne Schmidt. The screenplay is by Gary Goldman and is based on the Philip K. Dick story "The Golden Man." Goldman, Jason Koernick and Ben Waisbren are serving as executive producers. Dick's stories have been the basis for such films as Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report and the upcoming A Scanner Darkly.
In Next, Nicolas Cage plays a man with the unique ability to see future events and affect their outcome. Relentlessly pursued by the FBI, which is seeking to use his abilities to prevent a global terrorist threat, he is ultimately faced with the daunting choice of saving the world or the woman he loves.
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Filming begins for Cage-Moore flick ‘Next’ at casino
While the TV pilot’s crew occupied Palm Springs on Monday, a movie starring Nicolas Cage and Julianne Moore was being filmed several miles away at the Morongo Casino in Cabazon. The film, “Next,” is about a man capable of seeing into his future. He tries to win a woman’s love while avoiding capture from a government organization. The casino was still open to the public, but there were signs notifying guest that they consent to allowing film producers to use their images if they’re caught on camera, said Desert Sun columnist Darrell Smith, who was on the set as an extra.
Three hundred extras arrived at the casino about 6:30 a.m. Monday April 3. About 200 of them had roles as casino staff. The remaining 100, including Smith, played casino gamblers.
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Jessica Biel Finds Her Next Project
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
February 23, 2006
Jessica Biel has signed on to co-star in Lee Tamahori's sci-fi thriller Next, joining topliners Nicolas Cage and Julianne Moore, says The Hollywood Reporter. The Revolution Studios project is based on Philip K. Dick's short story "The Golden Man."
Written by Gary Goldman (Total Recall), the story centers on a man (Cage) with the unique ability to see future events and affect their outcome. Pursued by the FBI, which is seeking to use his abilities to prevent a global terrorist attack, he ultimately must decide whether to save himself or the world. Biel will play Liz, the love interest of Cage's character, whom he must attempt to save from terrorists. Revolution has set a late March start date for the film.
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Initial buy rights to Cage's 'Next'
Initial Entertainment Group have bought the international rights to sci-fi thriller Next. Based on Philip K. Dick's The Golden Man, the Revolution Studios film will tell the story of a man (Nicolas Cage) who can see into and affect the future. Julianne Moore co-stars as a federal agent who pursues him in the hope of preventing a terrorist attack. Lee Tamahori (XXX: State of the Union) is directing from Gary Goldman's screenplay, eyeing a 2007 release.
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Cage Toplines New PKD Film
4-15-05
Director Lee Tamahori told SCI FI Wire that he will helm Nicolas Cage in Next, the latest Hollywood adaptation of a work by SF writer Philip K. Dick. Tamahori (Die Another Day) said in an interview that the movie is set to begin production this summer for an as-yet-to-be-determined 2006 release date for Revolution Studios. Tamahori said that he and Cage, who will also produce, are still defining their approach to the film. "I know that sounds elusive, but this is a very tricky project," he said. "This movie is about time shifting, and time shifting in movies has always been tricky. Nick Cage and I are both looking for a new approach. We're looking for something that is visually arresting as well as physically fascinating and believable. The technique can wear itself out and become boring very fast. We don't want to turn this into a science-fiction movie without the science fiction."
Next is based on Dick's short story "The Golden Man," about a man with the ability to see short distances into the future. As the story unfolds, he uses his gift to outsmart a secret government organization bent on his capture, as well as to win the love of a woman and to prevent a terrorist attack. The screenplay is credited to Gary Goldman and Jason Koomick.
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NEXT News...
12-18-04
Nicolas Cage will star and Lee Tamahori will direct the action thriller "Next" for Revolution Studios. Cage will also produce the pic, based on "The Golden Man," a story by sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick. Gary Goldman, who adapted a Dick story into "Total Recall," penned the script.
Cage will produce along with his Saturn Films partner Norm Golightly. Goldman will be an executive producer, along with Jason Koornick, who holds the rights to Dick's short story. Derek Dauchy will oversee the project for Revolution.
Cage will play a man who can see the future and change events before they happen. Eventually, he is forced to choose between saving the world and saving himself.
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Moore in talks on Cage's Next film
12-7-04
Julianne Moore is in talks to star opposite Nicolas Cage in the sci-fi thriller 'Next'. Variety says that if she signs up for the movie, Moore will play a federal agent who searches for people who can predict terrorist acts.
Her work brings her into contact with Cage's character, a man who can see his own future. Moore was most recently seen on Irish cinema screens in 'The Forgotten'. Cage's new film, 'National Treasure', opens in Ireland on 26 December.
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Roth Talks Next Project
11-18-04
Veteran film producer Joe Roth (The Forgotten) told SCI FI Wire that his company, Revolution Studios, is moving forward with Next, a big-screen adaptation of Philip K. Dick's short story "The Golden Man." Roth added that he is undaunted by the spotty track record of recent Dick-inspired films, such as Impostor, Minority Report and Paycheck. Nicolas Cage (Face/Off) has signed on to star in the SF film, which Lee Tamahori (Die Another Day) will direct."I don't look at these things as an anthology or a collection," Roth said in an interview. "I only look at the screenplay I read." Roth added, "What worked about the screenplay is in the title: the notion that someone can actually see what's about to happen next [and thus change the future]. And it's the curse of that and how valuable that is to people who want to misuse it. In this case, there are governments. It's that conflict."
Roth praised Tamahori and Cage. "I think that Lee is a really interesting director, and Nic is a very interesting actor who can play both an action figure and kind of a tortured guy," he said. "It certainly felt like it worked for me." Gary Goldman, who previously wrote 1990's Total Recall based on Dick's story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale," adapted "The Golden Man." Production will begin next year with an eye toward a 2006 release.
More News on "NEXT"
11-15-04
Oscar winner Nicolas Cage and action helmer Lee Tamahori are teaming up for their Next project. Cage will star in and produce and Tamahori will direct Next, an action-thriller based on the Philip K. Dick story "The Golden Man." Cage will produce with partner Norm Golightly through the pair's Saturn Films, with shooting likely to get underway next summer.
Gary Goldman, who'll serve as an executive producer on the project, will adapt the script from "Golden." Cage will star as a man with the ability to see the future and change events before they happen. He comes to regret his power, however, when he's forced to choose between saving himself or saving the world. Goldman will executive produce with Jason Koornick, who holds the rights to the Dick story. At Revolution, Derek Dauchy will be overseeing the project
The CAA-repped Cage will soon be seen in Jon Turteltaub's action-adventure National Treasure. Tamahori is now finishing up his direction of the Ice Cube starrer XXX: State of the Union. As for Goldman, he's no stranger to Dick's work having adapted a Dick story into the screenplay for Total Recall. Other films based on Dick works include Blade Runner, Minority Report and the upcoming A Scanner Darkly.
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Next is next for Nic Cage
11-12-04
it would seem that Nicolas Cage is in one of those little commercial phases he goes through every now and again, when he makes a bunch of marquee movies before moving back onto the arthouse stuff. The most famous of these little sprees came after he won his Oscar in 1996 for Leaving Las Vegas, after which he promptly threw himself into the never-bettered triple-threat of The Rock, Con Air and Face/Off.
And now he’s at it again. December sees the former Nicky Coppola and his ever-changing hairline reteam with Jerry Bruckheimer on glossy action adventure, National Treasure. In January, despite Cage’s bizarre insistence last week that he was still in negotiations for the role, he heads Down Under to star as the Ghost Rider in Mark Steven Johnson’s Marvel comics adaptation. And inbetween that, he squeezed in the admittedly lower-key (but still revolving around guns) thriller, Lord Of War, in which he plays an arms dealer.
But he’s still not got his action fix out of his system yet. Today it was announced that Cage has lined up his next project, which also happens to be the next for Die Another Day and xXx2 director, Lee Tamahori. And the title of their next? Why, Next, of course!
The film is the latest in the long line of movies to be based on the work of sci-fi god, Philip K. Dick, in this case the story, The Golden Man. Cage will play a guy who can see into the future, and amend it accordingly. But soon he’s forced to choose between saving the world… or saving himself. No choice, really, in our eyes – if he doesn’t save the world, he’s screwed anyway. But we’re sure Cage and Tamahori will pull a rabbit out of the hat with their next that is Next.
Filming starts in the summer, giving Cage plenty of Ghost Rider time. The movie will be penned by Gary Goldman, who wrote the greatest Dick adaptation of them all, Total Recall (what’s that, you say? Blade whatty? OK, second greatest). So that bodes well. Right?
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