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Nicolas Cage (born Nicolas Kim Coppola; January 7, 1964) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Golden Globe Award. During the early years of his career, Cage starred in a variety of films such as Rumble Fish (1983), Racing with the Moon (1984), Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), Raising Arizona (1987), Vampire's Kiss (1989), Wild at Heart (1990), Honeymoon in Vegas (1992), and Red Rock West (1993). During this period, John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 36 listed him as one of twelve Promising New Actors of 1984. For his performance in Leaving Las Vegas (1995), he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. He received his second Academy Award nomination for his performance as Charlie and Donald Kaufman in Adaptation (2002). He subsequently appeared in more mainstream films, such as The Rock (1996), Con Air (1997), City of Angels (1998), 8mm (1999), Windtalkers (2002), Lord of War (2005), The Wicker Man (2006), Bangkok Dangerous (2008) and Knowing (2009). He also directed the film Sonny (2002), for which he was nominated for Grand Special Prize at Deauville Film Festival. Cage owns the production company Saturn Films and has produced films such as Shadow of the Vampire (2000) and The Life of David Gale (2003). In October 1997, Cage was ranked No. 40 in Empire magazine's The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time list, while the next year, he was placed No. 37 in Premiere's 100 most powerful people in Hollywood. In the 2010s, he starred in Kick-Ass (2010), Drive Angry (2011), Joe (2013), The Runner (2015), Dog Eat Dog (2016), Mom and Dad (2017), Mandy (2018), Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018), and Color Out of Space (2019). His participation in various film genres during this time increased his popularity and gained him a cult following.
Some years after the events of Batman and Robin, Bruce Wayne has retired from his life as Batman. Dick Grayson is also retired as a superhero and is studying at the Gotham City College. However, one of the collage professors, Johnathan Crane, is using the universities resources to perfect a toxin that will be able to manipulate peoples' emotions giving them uncontrollable fear. One night, he enlists the help of a fellow scientist, Doctor Kirk Langstrom, to help him experiment with his toxin. The experiment goes wrong and Langstrom is instead mutated into the terrifying monster, Man-Bat. Langstrom goes on a rampage, killing people in Gotham and is mistaken for Batman returned as a murderer. Hearing about the killings on the news, Bruce Wayne is forced to become Batman again and bring down Man-Bat. Meanwhile, Johnathan Crane takes advantage of the chaos caused by Man-Bat and uses his, now perfected, fear toxin to become the supervillain Scarecrow, using his new fear gas as a weapon.
