Nicolas Cage Faces Disaster in 'Knowing'2009-03-21

Nicolas Cage plays a man who stumbles onto a code that predicts major disasters in the sci-fi thriller 'Knowing,' in theaters everywhere today, but would he want to have access to this knowledge in real life?

"If I were to know, let's just say I'd like to be selective about it," Nic tells ET. "If it came to preventing an accident with one of my children, yeah, I want to know."

In 'Knowing,' Nic plays a professor and single dad who stumbles onto some alarming circumstances when he examines the contents of a 50-year-old time capsule unearthed at his son's elementary school. Containing terrifying predictions about the future, he sets out to prevent them from coming true -- at the risk of his own life.

"If I were to put something in a time capsule, I think it should be the music," says Nic. "The great music, like the Beethoven symphonies, the Bach concertos. It should go in a time capsule because I think that's the best representation of us, and our inspiration and our muse. That's what I'd want to share."

Nic also says he connected to the film partly because he was looking to portray a single father's relationship with his child in a positive light.

"It's something to behold, isn't it," he says of raising his own young son, Kal-el. "You just have to enjoy every minute of it."

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