Nicolas Cage re-teams with super producer Jerry Bruckheimer for the sixth time ('The Rock,' 'Con Air,' 'National Treasure' and more) to play a modern-day wizard in a live-action take on Disney's 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice,' and ET is on the set!

Sporting long locks, Nic tells ET he chose the project because, "I wanted to do something very magical; something that dealt with fantasy, as opposed to just straight-up violence. It occurred to me if you use metaphors and you use magic, then the body count goes down and becomes a lot more fun for everybody -- the whole family."

In theaters July 2010, the film follows Nic as he searches for an apprentice in New York City, played by Jay Baruchel ('Tropic Thunder'). Of course, the original "Sorcerer's Apprentice" was a segment in Disney's animated 'Fantasia' from 1940, in which Mickey Mouse gets ahold of the Sorcerer's magic hat and finds himself in a heap of trouble when he loses control of the broomsticks he commands to clean up the castle.

"I think I was a toddler when I first saw it," recalls Nic. "It really was my introduction at a very early age into classical music. It truly is fantastic in the sense of the word; the colors and the imagery was just magical."

So, does he get to wear the all-magical pointy hat in the movie?

"I really wanted to fight for the hat, but the hat didn't quite make it as much as I'd liked," he reveals. "But I think all sorcerers need to have a fairly pointy hat. If you can't have a pointy hat, you need to have pointy shoes."

"A dream of mine is always to entertain audiences," says Jerry, who is taking full advantage of the great old architecture of New York. "A lot of the magic stuff we're doing ... takes it to a whole new level."

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