Fantasia Festival To Fete Nicolas Cage, Closing Night Film Revealed
deadline.comActor Nicolas Cage will be the featured guest at Quebec’s Fantasia International Film Festival, where he will receive the festival’s Cheval Noir Career Achievement Award.
On the night, Cage will also present his latest pic, Sympathy for the Devil. Written by Luke Paradise, the pic follows “The Driver” (Joel Kinnaman), who finds himself in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse after being forced to drive a mysterious man, “The Passenger” (Cage).
As their white-knuckle ride progresses, it becomes clear that not everything is as it seems. Deadline previously shared an exclusive first look at the pic here.
Announcing Cage’s honor, the festival said the actor was a “remarkable performer responsible for bringing life to some of the most fascinating people to grace the big screen in some of the most extraordinary films ever made.” Cage’s career spans four decades and features projects of various scales and genres, including Martin Scorsese’s Bringing Out the Dead, Con Air, Raising Arizona by the Coens, and, more recently, 2021’s Pig.
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