Director Simon West burst onto the action filmmaking scene with 1997's Con Air , a star-studded Jerry Bruckheimer production that marked the first action movie that Nicolas Cage carried (The Rock being a two-hander with 007 himself, Sean Connery). So it's rather surprising given the commercial success of the film ($224 million at the worldwide box office) that there was never a Con Air 2. Now West has chimed in on what it would take to get him to make the sequel.

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“There are always rumours about a Con Air 2," West told ScreenDaily . “I would do it if it was completely turned on its head. Con Air in space, for example - a studio version where they’re all robots or the convicts are reanimated as super-convicts, or where the good guys are bad guys and the bad guys are good guys. Something shocking. If it was clever writing it could work.”Following Con Air, Simon West went on to direct Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, The General's Daughter, The Mechanic, and The Expendables 2.Any what would Nic Cage think of doing Con Air 2? Watch our interview with him for the answer: