Prisoners of the Ghostland

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http://www.upcominghorrormovies.com/...ners-ghostland



“When a notorious criminal, Hero (Cage), is sent to rescue an abducted girl who has disappeared into a dark supernatural universe, they must break the evil curse that binds them and escape the mysterious revenants that rule the Ghostland.”




Sofia Boutella (The Mummy), Ed Skrein (Deadpool), Bill Moseley (3 from Hell), Young Dais (The Outsider) and Tak Sakaguchi (Re:Born) will star alongside Nicolas Cage.





Cage recently described Prisoners of the Ghostland, “It’s out there. I wear a skintight black leather jumpsuit with grenades attached to different body parts, and if I don’t rescue the governor’s daughter from this state line where they’re all ghosts and bring her back they’re gonna blow me up.”





Director: Sion Sono

Sono’s English-language debut.

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Trivia:


The first script to get Nicolas Cage Interest after Mandy

The first English spoken movie directed by Sion Sono.

Nicolas Cage's character called Hero

The fourth collaboration between Nicolas Cage and XYZ after the highly-acclaimed horror comedy Mom And Dad (2017) , the cult-classic hit Mandy (2018) and Color Out Of Space (2019)

The movie was delayed for one year because of Sion Sono heart attack

Described as the wildest nicolas cage movie

The first collaboration between Nicolas Cage and Nick Cassavetes since Face/Off (1997)

Sofia Boutella replaced Imogen Poots

Nicolas Cage and Sofia Boutella were in The Documentary Love, Antosha (2018)

It took 17 years for writer Reza Sixo Safai to get the movie made


https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6372694...ef_=tt_trv_trv

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Release:


USA January 2021 (Sundance Film Festival)

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Ol' has been in some cool shit as of late, really looking forwards to this!

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RLJE Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, has acquired the U.S. rights to the film “Prisoners of the Ghostland,” which stars Nicolas Cage and Sofia Boutella, ahead of its Sundance world premiere.

“Prisoners of the Ghostland” stars Cage as a ruthless bank robber, sprung from jail by a wealthy warlord, called The Governor (Bill Moseley), whose adopted granddaughter Bernice (Boutella) has gone missing. In order to earn his freedom, Cage’s bandit sets off to find the young woman — with the added pressure of being strapped into a leather suit that will self-destruct within five days — which results in the actor giving what is professed to be “one of his most unhinged performances to date.”

The action/adventure film from director Sion Sono (in his English-language debut), is described as a “delirious mash-up of Western, samurai, and post-apocalyptic thriller” and is set to make its world premiere at the year’s festival on Jan. 31.

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[FrighT MasteR]

Movie sucks. Bunch of weird nonsense

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Disappointing from beginning to end, it is not as crazy, nor is it as weird, nor is it as wild as it is marketed. Nothing makes sense or funny, all the freaky moments seem forced and desperate to gain the sympathy of the viewer (like the idea of the testicles, or the scene of Cage on a bicycle). The fusion of western, samurai and post-apocalyptic ruins is inspiring, but since it's all made out of papier-mâché with a couple of bucks, it doesn't work. The tributes to Escape from L.A. or Army of Darkness would be nice, if they didn't look like a cheap imitation of both films.