While he plays a superhero in the new Prime Video series Spider NoirNicolas Cage is also set to reprise a completely different role: serial killer Longlegs.
The star helmed the 2024 horror-thriller Long legswhich saw Maika Monroe as an FBI agent investigating a series of murder-suicides in Oregon linked to Cage’s killer. The film was a huge success, becoming the highest-grossing independent film of the last decade, and in April it was revealed that Cage and director Osgood Perkins were working on another film. Long legs film.
in Spider NoirCage said the movie premiered in New York Hollywood Reporter He and Perkins became good friends and returned to them long legs, “I guess you could say I feel honored to have that character. This character is personal to me because I was influenced by my mother — not that my mother was crazy that way, and she wasn’t Satanic, but I don’t want someone else to play my mother, so if they’re going to do it, you’re doing it with me.”
In a surprising change, the new film is being made at Paramount, and not with Neon, who was behind the original. “I don’t know what the story is and I haven’t met the new Paramount,” Cage continued, referring to the new ownership under David Ellison. “I worked with the old Paramount; my whole family had a lot of projects there, so for me there’s a lot of history there — Flip/Stop, The godfather. I hope that no matter what happens, they have the same respect for films and filmmakers.
Details about the follow-up – which is scheduled for January 14, 2028 – were not revealed, but sources said THR This is new Long legs Not a sequel but something “set in the movie”. Long legs Universe.” The 2024 film earned $128 million worldwide on a budget of less than $10 million, becoming NEON’s highest-grossing domestic film.
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