Willy’s Wonderland teaser: Nicolas Cage battles animatronics in 2021 release

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

Director Kevin Lewis is going to gift the world with the sight of Nicolas Cage battling evil animatronic creatures when his film WILLY'S WONDERLAND is given a theatrical, VOD, and cable release in 2021, and a short teaser has arrived online today to give us an early glimpse at how cool this movie is going to be. Running just 15 seconds, the teaser embedded above features Cage, animatronics, and bloodshed.

Scripted by G.O. Parsons, the film has the following synopsis: 

A quiet drifter is tricked into a janitorial job at the now condemned Wally's Wonderland. The mundane tasks suddenly become an all-out fight for survival against wave after wave of demonic animatronics. Fists fly, kicks land, titans clash — and only one side will make it out alive.

Or, here's how Lewis described it to Entertainment Weekly: 

Nic plays a janitor who gets trapped in this children’s funhouse-amusement park with Willy, the animatronic weasel, and his gang. I call them the Psychopathic Animatronic Misfits. You've got Willy the Weasel, Artie the Alligator, Gus the Gorilla. There's eight of them, and they spring to life and attack him and others, and Nic has to battle his way out. It's like man versus machine! They've been doing this in the past and they picked the wrong guy: Nic."

Lewis describes the film as "a fun, wacky, crazy rollercoaster ride", a retro throwback to the '80s movie he grew up on, "Sam Raimi and EVIL DEAD and those kinds of fun '80s horror and action horror films". If WILLY'S WONDERLAND is a success when it's released next year, Lewis sees franchise potential in it, saying he thinks there could be "many more adventures for Willy and his gang".

Cage's co-stars in the film include Emily Tosta, Beth Grant, Ric Reitz, and Chris Warner.