Per a Deadline exclusive, the Nicolas Cage-starring adult crime-thriller series Highfire has moved home from Amazon to the Paramount+ platform – Cage hasn’t had much luck with Amazon recently, as his recent Joe Exotic series was also scrapped. Here’s hoping Highfire flies quickly to the new streamer.

The genre-bending, live-action series is based on Eoin Colfer’s (author of the Artemis Fowl series) novel, with The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent‘s star voicing the lead character Highfire, a vodka-drinking, Flashdance-loving dragon who lives an isolated existence in the bayous of Louisiana.

The logline goes as follows: Once upon a time, dragons ruled the earth and Lord Highfire ruled the dragons from his eyrie. But this is not once upon a time, this is now, and now all Lord Highfire rules is his shack in Louisiana’s Honey Island Swamp. Highfire has become plain old ‘Vern’ and, by day, he hides out among the alligators, watches cable-TV and drinks obscene amounts of vodka to pass the time.

It isn’t much of a life but he’s alive to live it, and Vern is prepared do whatever it takes – even if its violent – to preserve his own hide. When Vern’s world collides with a human teen named Squib, who becomes mixed up in some trouble while running booze for the local mob, their mutual struggle for survival becomes entangled in the most unlikely of friendships.

News of the project first broke in August 2020.