Both Nicolas Cage and Bill Moseley star in Sion Sono‘s (Suicide Club, Bloody Disgusting’s Cold Fish) action-horror extravaganza Prisoners of the Ghostland, which made its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.
At long last, the film is making its way to theaters, Digital HD and VOD platforms on September 17, 2021, Bloody Disgusting just learned.
The film is “set in the treacherous frontier city of Samurai Town where a ruthless bank robber (Cage) is sprung from jail by wealthy warlord The Governor (Moseley), whose adopted granddaughter Bernice (The Mummy’s Sofia Boutella) has gone missing. The Governor offers the prisoner his freedom in exchange for retrieving the runaway. Strapped into a leather suit that will self-destruct within three days, the bandit sets off on a journey to find the young woman—and his own path to redemption.”
Meagan Navarro attended the World Premiere, calling “Prisoners of the Ghostland a Bonkers, Neon Drenched Post-Apocalyptic Western.”
Cage has previously noted that Prisoners of the Ghostland, Sono’s English-language debut, may be the wildest Cage movie to date, and Sono commented on that in a chat with EW ahead of the World Premiere.
“There are samurais, there are ninjas, and ghosts are part of the story as well,” Sono teases, strongly suggesting Cage wasn’t kidding.
Reacting specifically to Cage’s recent comments, Sono tells EW, “I’d rather leave that question up to the audience. However, I know that Nicolas Cage has done a lot of great works and some of the works are crazy as well. If audiences think that this is the wildest movie that he’s ever made, the craziest movie that he’s ever made, then I would be really really happy to hear that.”
Cage recently described, “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.”
Watch for a trailer soon.
