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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.
The Roanoke colony settlers disappeared but they weren’t abducted by native Americans or died off. They were never actually alone. A second ship arrived with them carrying over $500 million worth of gold that England assumed could be used to pay for items settlements and alliances. The leader of the Roanoke colony took the treasure for himself and relocated everyone to another colony buying their silence. One of the original Roanoke settlers was Clifford Gates a very old relative to Cage’s character. When his journal is unearthed aboard a ship wreck after a recent hurricane off of the Carolinas, it explains the origins of CROATOAN which turns out to be a code leading to the treasure and solving the mystery of what happened to those settlers. With the possibility of $500 mil to be found. Researchers and treasure hunters will stop at nothing to solve the mystery of Roanoke first. This hunt leads Nic Cage on an adventure from the Carolinas to Virginia and all the way to England as he unearths a centuries long secret regarding the disappearance and wealth of the Roanoke colony. What he discovers impacts our understand of our nations history altogether and the lengths at which some went to to colonize America.
