Nicolas Cage Will Battle Cannibals After the Nuclear Apocalypse in ‘Parish’

Everyone loves Nicolas Cage, but part of what makes him so much fun is that the guy is a massive film nerd.

Cage has spent his career pulling from wildly different corners of cinema to create his characters. He looked to Nosferatu and German Expressionism for Vampire’s Kiss, channeled Bruce Lee and even Jason Voorhees while making Mandy, and has repeatedly talked about the classic movies and performances that inform his work.

Maybe that’s why every new Nicolas Cage movie sounds like an event.

Nothing is off limits. He’ll make a giant studio movie, disappear into some bizarre little indie, play Ghost Rider, go completely fucking insane in The Wicker Man, battle murderous animatronics in Willy’s Wonderland, or deliver the psychedelic bloodbath that is Mandy.

So what’s next?

Nicolas Cage battling cannibals after a nuclear apocalypse.

According to Deadline, Cage is set to star in the new action thriller Parish as one of the last known survivors of a nuclear apocalypse, forced to battle a horde of vicious cannibals.

Set 30 years after a nuclear apocalypse, Parish stars Oscar winner and action vet Cage as “a hardened survivor who has managed to stay alive with his highly trained attack dogs by following one unbreakable rule: never let anyone through the gate. That rule has kept him alive for three decades. But when a desperate woman carrying an infant appears outside his sanctuary, Parish is forced to choose between compassion and survival. His decision exposes the refuge he has spent years building and puts him in the crosshairs of a vicious band of cannibals closing in from the wasteland. With his highly equipped compound under siege and his past finally catching up with him, Parish is forced into a brutal fight to protect everything he has left.”

The project hails from writer-director Adam Sigal, writer-director of Simon Pegg comedy-thriller , and producer on 2024 sci-fi Slingshot with Casey Affleck and Laurence Fishburne. Filming is being lined up for October in Minnesota.