Has someone in Hollywood been playing Mad Libs or throwing darts at a vision board, because Nicolas Cage‘s new movie sounds like a jumble of words that add up to something I’d like to see. According to Deadline, Nicolas Cage is playing one of the last known survivors of a nuclear apocalypse who must do battle with a horde of wasteland cannibals in the new action-thriller Parish.
Nic Cage, Attack Dogs, and Wasteland Cannibals
Set 30 years after a nuclear apocalypse, Parish finds Cage playing “a hardened survivor who has managed to stay alive with his highly trained attack dogs by following one unbreakable rule: never let anyone through the gate. That rule has kept him alive for three decades. But when a desperate woman carrying an infant appears outside his sanctuary, Parish is forced to choose between compassion and survival. His decision exposes the refuge he has spent years building and puts him in the crosshairs of a vicious band of cannibals closing in from the wasteland. With his highly equipped compound under siege and his past finally catching up with him, Parish is forced into a brutal fight to protect everything he has left.”
The Team Behind the Madness
Adam Sigal, the writer-director of Simon Pegg’s quirky 2023 comedic thriller Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose, is at the helm of this insane-sounding project. Filming for Parish kicks off in Minnesota in October, with Sigal looking to shop the picture at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, with Concourse Media in charge of world pre-sales.
Speaking on the scope of the project, Concourse Media CEO Matthew Shreder noted: “There’s a scale and pedigree to Parish that immediately separates it from the pack, with all the ingredients of a real theatrical event. Nic Cage is an incredible and fearless actor, with an extraordinary group of filmmakers around him who are all setting out to make a sophisticated survival thriller that’s a cinematic event built for a global audience.”
The concept for Parish sounds incredibly well-suited for Nic Cage’s wildcard sensibilities, and I look forward to learning more about the cast as the project comes together. Post-apocalyptic movies are a dime a dozen, but by adding Cage and cannibals to the mix, it sounds like Parish could offer something new and exciting to the sci-fi subgenre.
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