LOS ANGELES, California (Hollywood Reporter) -- Nicolas Cage will star in a live-action feature film version of the classic tale of "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" for Walt Disney Pictures.
Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal are writing the screenplay, which takes its inspiration from Johann Wolfgang Goethe's 18th century poem, which in turn was the inspiration for the classic Mickey Mouse animated sequence from Disney's 1940 "Fantasia."
"Sorcerer" is being envisioned as a fantasy adventure set in contemporary New York, where a powerful sorcerer is in need of an apprentice. Cage would play the sorcerer.
While not based on a ride like the "Pirates of the Caribbean" films, the in-development project continues Disney's trend of reimagining classic Disney titles as live-action, event pictures.
No director is yet attached to the project.
Konner and Rosenthal have worked on such films as last year's "Flicka" and "Eragon." Their credits also include "I, Robot" and "Mona Lisa Smile."
Cage next stars in Columbia's "Ghost Rider." In the spring, Paramount will release the thriller "Next," in which he plays a magician who can see into the future.
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