Yahoo Movies First trailer for Nicolas Cage's "wildest movie" ever
Nicolas Cage's latest movie has debuted its first trailer and it looks like it may well live up to the actor's declaration that it's "the wildest movie I've ever made".
Prisoners of the Ghostland, described by studio Elysian Film Group as a "samurai western action film", introduces us to The Governor (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2's Bill Moseley), a man who presides over a small town and whose granddaughter Bernice (The Mummy star Sofia Boutella) "has been lost to us".
He is desperate to have Bernice returned, so he hires chained criminal Hero (Face/Off and Kick-Ass star Cage) to find and rescue her. Hero is equipped with armloads of weapons and explosives and given five days to bring Bernice back from "a highway where evil reigns".
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He sets off on his quest and soon encounters "the Ghostland, a land of no escape", a place filled with creepy figures and bizarre happenings. Of course, things soon escalate into fighting and explosions galore, with Cage declaring: "I am radioactive".
The residents of the nightmarish Ghostland are insistent that nobody ever escapes, but could Hero be the person for the job?
The movie also stars Nick Cassavetes, Tak Sakaguchi and Yuzuka Nakaya and is directed by Tag and Tokyo Vampire Hotel director Sion Sono.
Prisoners of the Ghostland will be released in cinemas and on digital platforms in the UK on September 17.
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The movie made its debut at this year's Sundance Film Festival and has so far scored a 76% Fresh rating with critics on Rotten Tomatoes, with the film having been described as "audacious", "oddly compelling" and "pure adrenaline cinema".
Cage recently responded to suggestions that his new movie Pig has parallels with the John Wick franchise due to the shared lost pet theme, saying that he doesn't think they have anything in common.
"I don't know that I will ever go back to those Jerry Bruckheimer-type spectacles because I do think there's a cult of fear in the studio system that's a little stifling," he said. "I don't feel that when I'm making an independent movie."
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