All posts tagged: Nicolas Cage

Nicolas Cage as Web Slinger

Nicolas Cage as Web Slinger

Published by Daniella Wilson

The official trailer for Prime Video’s Spider-Man-based drama series features a gumshoe Nicolas Cage facing off against Brendan Gleeson’s super villain. Marking the Oscar winner’s first leading TV series role, Cage plays Ben Reilly, an aging and down-on-his-luck private investigator in 1930s New York, who is forced to grapple with his past life as the city’s one and only superhero. In the new trailer (below), Reilly discovers his powers and faces off against an Irish crime boss (Gleeson), who is apparently Silvermane from the comics. The trailer was dropped in Mexico City for the pop culture festival CCXPMX26. The company has a unique presentation for the project: Spider-Noir will be available to stream in two different ways, in “Authentic Black & White” and “True-Hue Full Color” (the original comics were rather muted and monochromatic, but in color). The project is based on the comic Spider-Man Noir, but the project is considered a stand-alone story and not part of the Sony movies or the Into the Spider-Verse franchise. The full cast includes Lamorne Morris (Fargo), Li Jun Li …

New Longlegs Movie in the Works from Nicolas Cage, Osgood Perkins

New Longlegs Movie in the Works from Nicolas Cage, Osgood Perkins

Published by Daniella Wilson

Osgood Perkins is working on a new Longlegs feature, a follow-up to the filmmaker’s mystery horror thriller that became highest grossing independent film of the past decade. And in a twist out of the Longlegs playbook, rather than original distributor Neon being involved, this one has Skydance-owned Paramount Pictures as the project’s new home. Paramount has picked up the rights to the new mystery Longlegs project, which Perkins has written and will direct as well as produce. Nicolas Cage is returning as star and producer. Also producing are Brian Kavanaugh Jones of Range Media; Chris Ferguson, Perkins’ partner at their company Phobos; and Dave Caplan of C2, which financed the initial movie. Paramount and Perkins are keeping details in the basement but sources stress that this new Longlegs is not a sequel but something “set in the Longlegs universe.”   Longlegs was an out-of-nowhere hit when released by Neon in 2024, launching Perkins as a name horror filmmaker and establishing the star bonafides of Maika Monroe. The actress starred as an FBI agent, with an aptitude for clairvoyance, who …

Adam Wingard Exits Sequel as Paramount Seeks New Director

Adam Wingard Exits Sequel as Paramount Seeks New Director

Published by Daniella Wilson

The planned sequel to the 1990s action movie Face/Off now has an available director’s chair. Adam Wingard, who was previously attached to write and helm, left the Paramount Pictures project last summer, with both sides mutually agreeing to part ways, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. Face/Off 2 is now an open assignment at the studio, with other filmmakers pitching their own visions for the follow-up to the original 1997 cult favorite that starred John Travolta and Nicolas Cage. Back in 2019, the news broke that a Face/Off remake was in the works from producer Neal Moritz, with Paramount hiring Oren Uziel to pen the script. In 2021, the studio brought on Wingard to direct a sequel from a screenplay that he was writing with Simon Barrett. Wingard’s next feature is the forthcoming A24 thriller Onslaught, starring Adria Arjona, Dan Stevens, Drew Starkey and Rebecca Hall. His previous films include The Guest and the 2016 sequel Blair Witch, along with the Monsterverse hits Godzilla vs. Kong and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire from Warner Bros. …