Whereas he’s playing a superhero in new the Prime Video collection Spider-Noir, Nicolas Cage can also be on the brink of reprise a really completely different position: serial killer Longlegs.
The star led 2024’s horror thriller Longlegs, which noticed Maika Monroe as an FBI agent investigating a collection of murder-suicides in Oregon which are related to Cage’s killer. The movie was a breakout hit, turning into the highest-grossing impartial movie of the previous decade, and in April it was revealed that Cage and director Osgood Perkins are engaged on another Longlegs film.
At Spider-Noir‘s New York premiere, Cage told The Hollywood Reporter that he and Perkins have become good friends and in returning to Longlegs, “I guess you could say I have the pride of ownership of that character. That character is personal to me because I was influenced by my mom — not that my mom was crazy like that, she wasn’t satanic, however I don’t need another person taking part in my mother, so in the event that they’re gonna do it, you’re doing it with me.”
In a stunning change, the brand new movie is being arrange at Paramount, fairly than with Neon who was behind the unique. “I don’t know what the story is and I have not met the new Paramount,” Cage continued, referencing the brand new possession below David Ellison. “I have worked with the old Paramount; my whole family has had a lot of projects there, so to me there’s really a lot of history there — Face/Off, The Godfather. I hope that whatever happens, they have the same regard for movies and filmmakers.”
Particulars in regards to the follow-up — which has been dated for Jan. 14, 2028 — haven’t been revealed, however sources instructed THR this new Longlegs isn’t a sequel however one thing “set in the Longlegs universe.” The 2024 movie earned $128 million worldwide on a finances of lower than $10 million, turning into Neon’s highest-grossing home outing.
