Nicolas Cage is attached to star in "Back Up," a Tom Vaughan-penned spec that has been acquired by Castle Rock Pictures, reports The Hollywood Reporter.
A science fiction thriller described as "Memento" meets "Face/Off," the project will star Cage as a cop who is brought back to life to investigate his own murder.
Based on a story by Vaughan and Wedaa, "Back Up" is set in the near future, when technology allows for the resuscitation of humans and the "backing up" of their memories onto a computer. Cage plays a cop who gets "backed-up" and wakes up 90 days later with a gap in his memory. Learning that he was murdered and his wife has left him, Cage's character is intent on hunting down his murderer and figuring out what he did during the missing days that ruined his life.