Nicolas Cage Surprises Fans By Showing Up at the Alamo Drafthouse

By THC Staff | February 2, 2017

 

For the past four years, Alamo Drafthouse programmer Greg MacLennan has put together an event called CAGED in which fans attend a series of screenings of Nicolas Cage films, complete with theatrics and the hope that Cage might join. This year, MySA.com reports that it finally happened. To start off the night, theatergoers sang “Happy Birthday,” and Cage strolled in from the side door next to the stage.

Not only did Cage show up for a rousing introduction, he started the event with a reading of “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe, posed for a photo with hands clasped in a blessing for a couple who chose CAGED as the time and place to get engaged, and he picked the four films for the event — “Bangkok Dangerous,” “Joe,” “Bringing Out The Dead,” “Army of One,” and “Lord of War.”

Cage stayed through the entire show to watch with fans and make the event one of the most bizarre and wonderful happenings attendees could have hoped for. Birth Movies Death quoted MacLennan, “This is and will always be the greatest day of my life. I apologize to my unborn future child.”