Nicolas Cage and Invoice Skarsgård are set to star in Lords of Battle, the sequel to Lord of Battle that reunites CODA producer Vendome Footage with director Andrew Niccol.
Niccol will write and direct the sequel to his 2005 crime thriller Lord of Battle, with Cage reprising his function as arms supplier Yuri Orlov, and Skarsgård on board to play his son. In Lords of Battle, Orlov discovers he has a son, Anton, who’s attempting to high his father’s wrongs relatively than cease them as he launches a mercenary military to battle America’s Center East conflicts.
The sequel will shoot in fall 2023, with FilmNation Leisure representing the worldwide gross sales rights beginning on the Cannes Movie Competition. CAA Media Finance will deal with the home rights.
Philippe Rousselet and Fabrice Gianfermi, who produced the unique, are returning in the identical function for Lords of Battle below their Vendôme Footage banner, with Cage additionally producing through his Saturn Movies banner. Skarsgård is government producing.
“There’s a lot extra to discover with these characters. Plato stated it finest — ‘Solely the useless have seen the top of battle.’ I’m trying ahead to spending extra time within the firm of the charming satan that’s Yuri Orlov and now his illegitimate son – who seems to not be respectable in any method,” director Niccol stated in an announcement.
Cage earned an Oscar for his function in Leaving Las Vegas. His latest film credit embody The Insufferable Weight of Large Expertise and Pig. Skarsgård most lately starred in John Wick: Chapter 4, alongside Keanu Reeves.
Niccol wrote The Truman Present screenplay, which landed him an Oscar nomination, earlier than directing Anon, starring Clive Owen and Amanda Seyfried; Good Kill, starring Ethan Hawke, January Jones and Zoe Kravitz; and The Host, led by Saoirse Ronan.
Vendôme’s Philippe Rousselet added in his personal assertion: “The Lord of Battle world has no scarcity of ammunition within the prospects of tales we will inform, and we’re very excited to inform one more one which follows Yuri and Anton’s harmful journey.”
Vendôme produced the 2022 Oscar finest image winner CODA, directed by Siân Heder and starring Emilia Jones, Marlee Matlin, Troy Kotsur, Daniel Durant and Eugenio Derbez.
Niccol is repped by CAA. Cage is repped by WME and Stride Administration. Skarsgård is represented by WME and Magnolia Leisure.
