His travels throughout Europe, as well as his Irish heritage, serve as a basis for many of his earlier stories. Soon after graduating, Colfer spent four years working in Saudi Arabia, Italy and Tunisia. He graduated from Dublin University with a bachelor’s degree in Education.

He also recently lent his voice to the Oscar-winning animated film “Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse.” His upcoming films include “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent” and “Pig.Eoin Colfer was born in Wexford, Ireland. He has long been praised for his film work, having won the Academy Award for best actor for “Leaving Las Vegas” and getting a nomination in the same category for “Adaptation.” He is also known for his starring roles in films like “Moonstruck,” “Raising Arizona,” “Face/Off,” and the “National Treasure” and “Ghost Rider” films.

Variety exclusively reported that Cage is attached to play Joe Schreibvogel, a.k.a Joe Exotic, in a scripted series currently in the works at CBS Television Studios and Imagine Television Studios. Should the project go to series, it would mark the second regular TV role Cage has undertaken in recent months. Amazon Studios and MGM Television will produce. Andrew Mittman of 1.21 will also executive produce. When Vern’s world collides with a human teen named Squib, who becomes mixed up in some trouble while running booze for the local mob, their mutual struggle for survival becomes entangled in the most unlikely of friendships.ĭavey Holmes is adapting the book for the screen and will executive produce alongside Cage.

It isn’t much of a life but he’s alive to live it, and Vern is prepared do whatever it takes – even if its violent – to preserve his own hide.

Highfire has become plain old ‘Vern’ and, by day, he hides out among the alligators, watches cable-TV and drinks obscene amounts of vodka to pass the time. But this is not once upon a time, this is now, and now all Lord Highfire rules is his shack in Louisiana’s Honey Island Swamp. In the series, dragons once ruled the earth and Lord Highfire ruled the dragons from his eyrie. Nicolas Cage is attached to voice the lead character of and executive produce a series adaptation of “Artemis Fowl” author Eoin Colfer’s novel “Highfire” in development at Amazon, Variety has confirmed.Ĭage will play the titular Highfire, described as a vodka-drinking, “Flashdance”-loving dragon who lives an isolated existence in the bayous of Louisiana.

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