After popcorn features, Cage will ‘Vanish’ into indie territory

I don't question his talent (Adaptation), I question his film role choices (Ghost Rider). With The Wrestler (a film with that Darren Aronofsky might be lensing) up next, Variety reports the Nicolas Cage will make it back to back indie projects by taking the lead in Hany Abu-Assad's newest project for Focus Features.

Written by Larysa Kondracki and Eilis Kirwan, The Vanished concerns a father who goes in search of his college-aged American-born Muslim son, who's missing overseas.

Abu-Assad is of course the director behind Paradise Now, the  Oscar-nominated 2005 film giving a personal account of suicide bombers from Palestine. The Focus project will be produced by Noah Rosen and David Alpert of Circle of Confusion and Tracy Seward. Production is scheduled for the spring.