Sometimes it can be a real joy to watch Nicolas Cage's career play out, even when a lot of the movies he's in aren't so great. Last year he went on a drug-fuelled rampage of revenge in MANDY, his character read a book written by Nicolas Cage during a sex scene in BETWEEN WORLDS, and he voiced a version of Spider-Man in SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE. Soon we'll see him battling a jaguar on a ship in PRIMAL, he'll be working with Richard Stanley on the Lovecraft adaptation COLOR OUT OF SPACE, and he's set to star in a film called PRISONERS OF THE GHOSTLAND that he says might be the "wildest movie" he has ever made.
Now Cage has signed on for another project that I'm very happy to see him get involved with. He is set to star alongside Alain Moussi in the Dimitri Logothetis film JIU JITSU. Based on the 2017 comic book of the same title (you can pick up a copy HERE), this movie is going to be about
Jake (Moussi), a war veteran and master jiu jitsu fighter who belongs to an ancient order that for thousands of years has battled an alien invader every six years to determine the fate of mankind.
When Jake, injured and suffering from amnesia after an alien assault, refuses to fight the invader, he is rescued by Wylie (Cage) and a team of jiu jitsu fighters who must help him recover his memory and regain his strength to band together and defeat the invader.
Cage in a movie about martial artists fighting an alien? The only bad thing about this project is that it hasn't been filmed yet, because I want to watch it right now.
Logothetis and Moussi previously worked together on the recent KICKBOXER films, KICKBOXER: VENGEANCE and KICKBOXER: RETALIATION. Logothetis, who is also producing the movie with Martin Barab, wrote the JIU JITSU comic book with Jim McGrath The two collaborated again to write the screenplay for the film version.