“Rock-1996-movie-posters/”>The Rock,” Michael Bay’s gloriously over-the-top action hit from 1996, represents a transition stage for Nicolas Cage.
Fresh off winning an Academy Award for “Leaving Las Vegas,” Cage ventured into blockbuster territory in his follow-up project, then rode the success into nineties action movie stardom with “Con Air and “Face/Off” the following year.
It turns out, however, that the already highly established action hero Arnold Schwarzenegger was initially offered Cage’s part before turning it down based on the shoddy quality of its screenplay.It’s difficult to say at what point exactly in the writing process Don Simpson, the other of half of a…The post A Half-Baked Script Wasn’t Enough To Sell Arnold Schwarzenegger On The Rock appeared first on /Film.
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