Nicolas Cage is set to return for a second Longlegs film with director Osgood Perkins.
Perkins will again write and direct the yet-to-be-titled serial killer flick with Cage returning to star and produce, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Paramount Pictures have picked up the rights after the first movie grossed $128million (£94,450) from a $10million (£7.3million) budget.
The first film followed FBI Agent Lee Harker (Maika Monroe), who is assigned to hunt down a serial killer (Cage) who has been slaughtering families for 30 years, seemingly with powers beyond mere mortals. When Harker discovers a personal connection to the killer, she must stop him before he strikes again.
In a four-star review, NME described Longlegs as “a cross between The Silence of the Lambs, Zodiac and Saw“, while also calling it “infernally creepy”.
It added: “At its heart, Monroe is superb as Harker, offering up a buttoned-down performance that never breaks. Hopefully, Longlegs doesn’t get her pigeonholed as a Scream Queen; she deserves more. As for Cage, also a producer here, it’s just another worthy addition to his canon of crazies. Despite limited screentime, it might just be his most bonkers role yet. “Is it scary being a lady FBI agent?” asks one little girl of Harker. Well, when you’re confronted with Cage’s Longlegs, it most certainly is.”
Perkins returns to the Longlegs universe after wrapping production on The Young People, starring Nicole Kidman, Lola Tung and Nico Parker.
Meanwhile Cage is set to star in Amazon MGM Studios‘ Spider-Man series Spider-Noir, which debuts in May.
The miniseries is inspired by the Spider-Noir character Cage voiced in the animated Spider-verse films. This live-action version is a direct adaptation of the Spider-Man Noir comic series.
The official synopsis reads: “Spider-Noir tells the story of an aging and down on his luck private investigator (Cage) in 1930s New York, who is forced to grapple with his past life as the city’s one and only superhero.”
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