Get an armfull of your favorite snacks and check your brain at the door, because cult genre cinema fave Sion Sono (Love Exposure, Why Don’t You Play In Hell?, The Red Post On Escher St.) is making his international debut at the helm with none other than Nicolas Cage at the wheel, in an explosive black leather suit no less for action thriller, Prisoners Of The Ghostland.
In the treacherous frontier city of Samurai Town, a ruthless bank robber (Nicolas Cage) is sprung from jail by wealthy warlord The Governor (Bill Moseley), whose adopted granddaughter Bernice (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 five days, the bandit sets off on a journey to find the young woman—and his own path to redemption.
Also make way for the likes of Hotel Artemis badass Sofia Boutella, and the long and hotly-awaited U.S. showcase of actor and action star Tak Sakaguchi, which is basically the most meaningful thing right now for anyone who’s followed that man’s career since Versus. With guns ablaze, sword-slashing about as part of the setup, Prisoners Of The Ghostland reads like something that’ll assure any of the jaded summer movie crowd so far.
RLJE Films will release Prisoners Of The Ghostland in theaters and on VOD and Digital September 17!