Nicolas Cage to fight cannibals (in his next movie)

Per Deadline, the actor has signed on to play the eponymous Parish, “a hardened survivor” with “highly trained attack dogs” who has survived the apocalypse for over thirty years by keeping his gates locked against every poor soul who crosses his homestead. But as any fella living in hermitage for a ridiculous amount of time will surely attest, isolation has its breaking points, and Parish hits his “when a desperate woman carrying an infant appears outside his sanctuary, [forcing him] to choose between compassion and survival.” The price for this compassion? Exposure, which draws a pack of voracious cannibals from this world’s wasteland to his doorstep, leading to a presumably violent reckoning concerning his past and immediate future.

With any luck, set photos of Cage’s survivalist threads—and those dogs!—will be revealed during the film’s shooting, which is expected to begin in October.