Nicolas Cage has been signed on to star in thriller "Kill Chain".
The 54-year-old actor will feature in the project being described as a film in the vein of the "greatest detective noirs", according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The film is to be written and directed by Ken Sanzel, who produced "Numb3rs" and wrote "The Replacement Killers".
A movie by Millennium studios, it follows three strangers and how they inevitably become entangled in a conflict none of them anticipated.
Paul Hertzberg is attached to produce.