Comic books might be the flavour of the decade, but some genres are truly immortal. Take, for example, the kidnapping drama, which is popping its eager head out of the bag for another run around our cinema screens as
Henry Cavill commits to star in The Cold Light of Day.
According to the Heat Vision blog, Cavill will play an arrogant Wall Street type who wrenches himself from his symbiotic relationship with his desk to suffer the indignity of a holiday with his family in Spain.
But then real tragedy strikes: his significant other and spawn are kidnapped and, instead of sitting back in a deck chair with a pint of sangria, he dives headlong into a twisty conspiracy that involves both the government and a long-hidden, dangerous secret from his fathers past. Can he save his loved ones? Will he be forced at any point to buy a straw donkey and a novelty sombrero? Only
JCVD director Mabrouk El Mechri knows for sure. Because hes directing it. So were sure hes read the ending.
Unless, that is, current writer Richard Price (
Shaft) has changed it from the original penned by Scott Wiper and John Petro.
Cavill, of course, is best known for his role on TV drama The Tudors, though hes cropped up in the likes of
I Capture the Castle,
Stardust and
Whatever Works.
The Cold Light of Day will start filming this September in Spain
