A trailer teaser hypes Nicolas Cage's Prisoners of the Ghostland as one of the wildest movies in the actor's eccentric career.
The teaser begins with stars Cage and Sofia Boutella (Kingsman, 2017's The Mummy) staring at something off-screen before moving through a rapid montage of images depicting Cage furiously driving a car through a yellow-tinted landscape, facing off with one of his enemies in a sword fight and firing what appears to be a gun grafted onto his right arm, among other bizarre sights. It culminates with a mushroom cloud before teasing more to come in the full-length trailer.
Seasoned Japanese filmmaker/author Sion Sono directs Prisoners of the Ghostland from a script by actors Aaron Henry (Inhumans) and Reza Sixo Safai (A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night). The movie begins in the treacherous frontier city of Samurai Town, where a ruthless bank robber (Cage) is sprung from jail by a wealthy warlord, known as The Governor (Bill Moseley), whose adopted granddaughter Bernice (Boutella) has gone missing. The Governor offers Cage's prisoner his freedom in return for retrieving the runaway, but only if he does so in five days, after which point the leather suit strapped to his body will self-destruct.
CBR's Reuben Baron wrote that Prisoners of the Ghostland lives up to the hype as one of Cage's most outlandish movies so far. "Your mileage may vary on whether that's a good thing or a bad thing, but while not for everyone, this post-apocalyptic East-meets-West semi-satirical surrealist adventure film will put a huge grin on the faces of anyone who can roll with its mix of glorious nonsense and genuinely interesting ideas. Cage's expectedly over-the-top acting isn't even close to the wildest thing about this movie."
Cage is coming off the critical success of Pig, a dramatic thriller in which he delivers what many critics feel is his best performance in years. Prisoners of the Ghostland premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival to positive reviews, though many of them cautioned the movie continues the trend of Cage making creatively audacious films with niche appeal in the vein of 2018's Mandy and 2019's Color Out of Space.
After being acquired by RLJE Films, Prisoners of the Ghostland releases in theaters and on VOD and Digital on Sept. 17.
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