I wonder which Nicolas Cage we’re going to get in BLACK BUTTERFLY, the project he just joined. Will it be the manic, bug-eyed Cage who froths at the mouth and devours the scenery? Or will it be the disinterested, mumbly Cage, who can’t help but telegraph the fact that he desperately needs a paycheck?
BLACK BUTTERFLY seems like it might present an opportunity for the latter, but you never know. Pitched as a Hitchcockian thriller, the flick is a remake of the 2008 French TV thriller “Papillon noir” and it has some potential…
The Hollywood Reporter describes the plot thusly: Cage will play the reclusive author Paul, who befriends a drifter, with fatal consequences.
Doing a bit of digging, I found a synopsis for the original that expands on the story just a wee bit: Educated and ambitious, Richard is a writer looking for inspiration. Anxious and consumed with alcohol, the writer gets stuck in a hopeless solitude until he meets a mysterious vagabond, Jack, a free, charismatic man that he decides to host a few days. But at what cost…?
Actor Brian Goodman is directing BLACK BUTTERFLY, which will shoot in early 2012 in eastern Germany carrying a budget of approx. $13 million. German actress Veronica Ferres (pictured below) is co-starring.
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