As he continues his endeavour to squeeze as many movies into the next few years as he can (while paying off those pesky tax bills), Nicolas Cage is adding another action thriller to the list. He'll star in Primal.

Longtime stunt co-ordinator and second unit director Nick Powell is stepping up to make his first movie, written by Richard Leder. The film will see Cage as Frank Walsh, a legendary big game tracker who works to capture exotic creatures for zoos. He's sailing on a Greek shipping freighter with his his latest haul of animals, including a rare white jaguar from the Amazon. Trouble strikes when Richard Loffler, a political assassin secretly being extradited back to the US on the ship, escapes his guards and releases the animals. You can pretty much guess what happens from there: Frank will have to find a way to save the crew from the rampant creatures and also deal with the lunatic on the loose.

Powell will set the cameras rolling and the animals running next month in Puerto Rico. Cage has several films on the way, including Mom And Dad, Looking Glass and Mandy.

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