Variety reports that the Oscar- winning star, whose new movie, City of Angels , debuted at No. 1 this weekend, is teaming up with Universal Pictures for a POW picture. His plane crashed in the Pacific, and he and his buddy drifted without food or water for forty- seven days before landing on a Japanese island.
Cage also plans to produce the pic.
The New York Daily News reports that the actress is interested in bringing the story of tragic poet Sylvia Plath to the big screen. Ryan has reportedly already penned a script for the pic, which she also hopes to produce. One major obstacle to the project's taking off is Ted Hughes, Plath's husband and Britain's poet laureate, who has nixed previous film attempts for fear that he'll be portrayed as the one who pushed Plath to suicide in 1963. It's too depressing. Just look at upcoming pics such as A Perfect Murder , which stars Michael Douglas as the much older hubby of Gwyneth Paltrow, and Six Days, Seven Nights , with Harrison Ford's pilot romancing Anne Heche.