Director Gabe Polsky’s film, having had its world premiere at last year’s Toronto Film Festival, stars the Academy Award winning actor as an obsessive hunter named Miller who knows of a remote valley in the Colorado Rockies teeming with thousands of buffalo. An obsessed Miller convinces a young Harvard dropout named Will Andrews, played by Fred Hechinger, to finance what proves to be an extremely hazardous trip.

“This film has been many years in the making, and after an epically challenging shoot and a world premiere at TIFF, I’m so excited that now is the time for the world to see it,” Polsky says in an exclusive statement provided to EW. “Audiences are in for a harrowing journey and an enigmatic Nicolas Cage performance that explores the nature of ambition — the powerful and destructive energy that has shaped America and our planet.”

While attending the film’s TIFF premiere in 2022, Cage revealed that his performance was partly inspired by a certain NBA megastar. “Gabe Polsky wanted me to shave the head because he was thinking about Michael Jordan,” the actor told EW at the time. “Michael Jordan on the court, and that need to win. Isn’t that in Miller? The need to score, to win. I started thinking about it.”

Cage admitted his look might also owe a little to Marlon Brando’s Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now. “There is a kind of Joseph Conrad, Kurtz view by way of Coppola’s Apocalypse Now appearance to the shaved head,” Cage said. “It sort of works. It coalesces. It could be both. It could be Michael Jordan meets Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now.”

The cast of Butcher’s Crossing also includes Rachel Keller, Xander Berkeley, Jeremy Bobb, and Paul Raci. The movie will be released in theaters through Saban Films nationwide this Oct. 20.

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The film, which was going to be called Superman Lives, was going fulfill a dream of Cage’s to wear the red and blue on the big screen but that film never came to fruition due to strange plot details, a kooky producer who was once Barbara Streisand hair dresser, and Tim Burton wanting full control on the script and franchise. Note: This was pre-Batman for Tim Burton so he hadn’t officially gotten into the comic book movie game.

To fully understand, listen to actor/director Kevin Smith, who was commissioned at one time to write the script of Superman Lives, tell it in a hilarious Q&A session. Watch below:

Superman Lives Part 1:

Superman Lives Part 2:

Also, check leaked photos which showed what Cage’s look for Superman would have been with long hair in a full Kryptonian suit.

After all of this, Nic Cage finally got to fulfill that dream when he was placed in recent DC film The Flash starring Ezra Miller, Michael Keaton, Ben Affleck and others. In the film, Barry Allen (Miller) starts looking into different extended universes and comes upon one where Superman (Cage) battles a giant spider (you must watch the Kevin Smith Q&As, he explains the spider) in a scene right out of the original script for Superman Lives.

Cage recently talked to USA Today about his cameo in The Flash and Superman Lives:

“For me, it was the feeling of being actualized,” Cage told USA Today. “Even that look for that particular character, finally seeing it on screen, was satisfying. But as I said, it’s quick. If you really wanted to know what I was going do with that character, look at my performance in City of Angels.”

He continues:

“I was supposed (to play) Clark Kent after that (in Superman Lives), and I was already developing this alien otherness playing this angel. That is a perfect example of the tonality you would’ve gotten for Kal-El and for Clark Kent: Clark would’ve been a little more amusing, but Kal-El (had) the sensitivity and the goodness and the vulnerability and all those feelings that were kind of angelic and also terrifying.”

Check out the leaked scene below:

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