Highfire is written in the style of a neo-noirish thriller – True Detective meets Swamp Thing, told from the perspectives of Vern (who comes across like the love child of Homer Simpson and Victor Meldrew), Squib and Regence Hooke, a corrupt local cop with ambitiously crooked plans for the dragon. What could have been a fairly saccharine odd-couple, cross-generational confection, with Vern as the ultimate boomer to Squib’s Gen Z-er, becomes something more satisfying in Colfer’s deft hands. Vern is closer to the size of a bear than a dinosaur, and the central plank of the book is his relationship with savvy local teenager Squib Moreau, who chances on the dragon’s lair. They are monstrous engines of destruction, as in A Song of Ice and Fire or The Hobbit the noble, benign creatures of Anne McCaffrey’s Pern novels or cuddly dudes with a penchant for befriending small children, such as Pete’s Dragon in the Disney movie or excitable Edgar from last year’s John Lewis Christmas ad. Holmes, who has also worked on series including Shameless, Awake and In Treatment, is repped by 3 Arts and Felker Toczek.Dragons in fiction tend to occupy one of three positions. Cage’s recent credits include Pig and upcoming films including The Old Way, Butcher’s Crossing and Renfield.Ĭage is repped by WME, Stride Management and Attorney Patrick Knapp of Goodman Genow. The project would mark Cage’s first major scripted television series after Amazon’s Joe Exotic project, in which he was set to play the outlandish lead, was shelved.

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. It isn’t much of a life but he’s alive to live it, and Vern is prepared do whatever it takes – even if its violent – to preserve his own hide. 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. But this is not once upon a time, this is now, and now all Lord Highfire rules is his shack in Louisiana’s Honey Island Swamp. Once upon a time, dragons ruled the earth and Lord Highfire ruled the dragons from his eyrie. Nicolas Cage Admits To Having Taken 'Crummy' Roles To Pay Back Debt Following Real Estate Market Crash

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