Cage In New 'Courtship'

Nicolas Cage will produce and star in a remake of The Courtship of Eddie's Father, the 1963 film starring Glenn Ford and Ron Howard, according to Variety.

Ford played a widower who struggles to find a new wife/stepmother who meets the approval of his young son (played by Howard).

The film was also the basis for an ABC-TV series starring Bill Bixby and Brandon Cruz that ran from 1969-72.

Cage was said to be interested in the project because he has a seven-year-old son, Weston, approximately the age of the young boy in the original picture.