Casting Couch: Cage Scares Up Thriller; Consuelos Gets Ugly



Los Angeles (E! Online) - Nicolas Cage is returning to the scene of the crime for his latest would-be blockbuster.

The Oscar winner and everyman action star is in final negotiations with director John Carpenter to star in the prison thriller Scared Straight, per the Hollywood Reporter, revolving around the same-named crime-prevention program which temporarily imprisons delinquent youths in hopes of scaring them out of a life of crime.

By Gina Serpe