Nicolas Cage Series Where He Plays A Vodka-Loving Dragon Moves To Paramount+

The Nicolas Cage TV series Highfire, in which he plays a vodka-loving dragon, has a new home. Deadline reports that Highfire, originally announced for Amazon Prime, is now coming to Paramount+. The series is based on Artemis Fowl author Eoin Colfer's book, Highfire.

Deadline says the series is "True Detective-meets-Pete's Dragon." Davey Holmes (Get Shorty TV series) is adapting the book for the screen, with MGM producing.

"The genre-bending, live-action series Highfire is a gritty crime-thriller with doses of magical realism. Its central character, Highfire (Cage) is a vodka-drinking, Flashdance-loving dragon who lives an isolated existence in the bayous of Louisiana," Deadline reported.

"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," the show's description says. "It isn't much of a life but he's alive to live it, and Vern is prepared do whatever it takes--even if it's violent--to preserve his own hide. 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."

Highfire, if it ever gets made--and that's not a certainty--would be Cage's first big-time scripted TV show since his Joe Exotic TV series at Amazon fell apart.

Cage has numerous upcoming projects in the works, including Renfield, in which he plays Dracula. For more, check out some wonderful images of Cage as Dracula.