Please allow us to introduce the stars of Sympathy For The Devil, Nicolas Cage and Joel Kinnaman
Yuval Adler will direct the new "psychological thriller" from a script by Luke Paradise
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More good news for the Cage-heads. Nicolas Cage, a man of wealth and taste (however questionable), has joined the cast of psychological thriller Sympathy For The Devil alongside For All Mankind’s Joel Kinnaman, per Variety. It’s the latest in a series of high-profile comeback roles for Cage, marking an undeniable career renaissance.
In Sympathy For The Devil, Cage plays “a mysterious man known as ‘The Passenger.’” Kinnaman is “The Driver” unwittingly trapped “in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse” when Cage gets in his backseat for what is sure to be “a white-knuckle ride.” Yuval Adler (The Secrets We Keep) is set to direct from a script by Luke Paradise (Lost on a Mountain in Maine).
In a statement to Variety, producer Allan Ungar said, “This is a tour de force featuring two incredible actors. As an acclaimed filmmaker, Yuval has assembled the perfect cast and brought a unique and gritty vision to this film that will be sure to capture audiences.”
Cage has never wanted for work, but there’s no denying that the quality of his projects declined. (“The phone stopped ringing,” he told GQ in March.) But in recent years, his performances have been garnering critical acclaim once again, like 2021’s Pig or the meta-comedy The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent.
Since then, he’s picked up a number of high-profile roles, including in the Dracula comedy Renfield opposite Nicholas Hoult and in Ari Aster’s Dream Scenario. The blockbusters seem to be coming back around, too: Adam Wingard wants him for a Face/Off sequel, and Jerry Bruckheimer has sent along a script for National Treasure 3 (after he was conspicuously absent from the National Treasure Disney+ series announcement). This new film opposite Kinnaman is shaping up to be another stop on the Cage victory tour.
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I saw that movie back when it starred Jamie Foxx and Tom Cruise.
Hey, you didn’t even give us a chance to guess their names!
Nice plugs, Nic
You mean you like the way he lets the people know about his latest project?
I agree! Nice plugs!
Wh-wah-what?! Nic is bald?! Next you’ll be telling me that Travolta is bald too!
Lol. I wonder if we’ll be seeing fewer and fewer normally balding actors in the future. People demand perfection. That must be galling to real guys IRL. Hair transplanting is expensive, painful and it can fail. It’s good to see lead actors willing to stay natural – like Stellan Skarsgard, Colm Feore and Jason Statham. Not every white guy looks great with a shaved head, either.
Steve Martin said that’s why he got out of acting; no one wants a 60-year-old who looks like…a 60-year-old. That, and his banjo career was takin’ off.
I remember Michael Mann’s Collateral.
Gonna be hard to top that one. Great film.
…but how long were their claps?
Depends on when they got their penicillin.
If I owned the domain “manofwealthandtaste.com” and redirected it to this article as a gag, would that constitute a good use of my time?
I hope the plot goes like this:Joel Kinnaman is The Devil, and he masquerades as a taxi driver so he can drive souls STRAIGHT TO HELL! But then one day he gives a lift to Nicholas Cage’s psychologist, who calmly convinces him that what he’s doing is bad. The Devil is annoyed at first, but eventually the two develop an unconventional but life-affirming bond as best mates.