Knowing

[Lord_Leperman]

A professor (Cage) finds that the contents of a time capsule at his son's elementary school makes predictions of the future that have come true. The predictions lead the teacher to believe the world is ending, and that he and his son are involved in the apocalypse.

The concept seems to be parallel to Naoki Ursawa's 20th Century Boys, where the protagonist discovers that a strange series of world events were predicted by him and his childhood friends written in "The Book of Prophecies" they wrote before they all grew up. Thus, the premise makes me think: Will some parts of our mundane lives have an actual significant meaning in the future? Will the individual things we take for granted have a pivotal function in some world-altering phenomena? I've done the same sort of thing when I was a kid along with my friends (one of those involves a nasty war, which I somewhat still remember), and it would be creepy if the world would turn out the way of kids want, not knowing the consequences of such foolish predictions.

This upcoming sci-fi movie stars Nicholas Cage, and is scheduled for a 2009 release. I'm suspecting this will be some sort of a puzzle thriller, where the hero will try to piece different puzzles from the kids predictions in order to find out where the next strange event will occur, and maybe even try to stop it. Anyway, there's no movie poster, nor a trailer, so it's still up there if the movie's even gonna come out at all, but I'm intrigued with the concept and I'd like to share it with you guys.