John Carpenter hasn’t had a movie in theaters since Ghosts of Mars, so hearing that he is teaming up with Nicolas Cage for a new film is good news. Even if its not a horror film.

Hollywood Reporter:

Nicolas Cage and director John Carpenter are in final negotiations to team up for a prison thriller titled Scared Straight.

Nu Image/Millennium Films would finance the film and is in negotiations with Contrafilm’s Beau Flynn and Tripp Vinson along with Randall Emmett and George Furla to produce. Avi Lerner also would produce.

Straight follows a troubled youth who’s sent to prison off the Scared Straight crime-prevention program, which imprisons delinquent teens for a short period in the hopes of deterring them from a life of crime. While the teen is there, a riot breaks out and the prisoners take him hostage. A lifer, played by Cage, is forced to help the young man out.