Creepy Casting

Posted by dominie in Films, News on September 23rd, 2008

Nicholas Cage has signed on to reteam with director Dominic Sena (Gone in Sixty Seconds) in Columbia’s upcoming supernatural thriller, Season of the Witch.  Instead of driving bad ass cars, he’ll be your 14th century bad ass knight, transporting a girl suspected of being the witch responsible for spreading the Black Plague to be exorcised of her grossly demons.

Aldan Gillen (The Wire), Eva Birthistle (Middletown) and Timothy Spall (Sweeney Todd, Harry Potter series) have been cast in director David Keating’s The Wake Wood.  The original story and screenplay by Brendan McCarthy is about a grieving family who relocates to a remote town.  They study a pagan ritual that will offer them three more days with nine-year-old daughter Alice.  Lensing began yesterday in County Donegal, Ireland.  McCarthy is producing the film along with John McDonnell through their Fantastic Films banner with Simon Oakes (Beyond the Rave) and Guy East (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines) exec producing.