There’s nothing like geeking out over heavy steel music collectively to interrupt the ice earlier than capturing a movie. In a latest interview with MovieWeb for his action-horror movie Werewolves, director Steven C. Miller recalled his 2017 collaboration with Nicolas Cage within the motion movie Arsenal and the way, a lot to his shock, he and Cage discovered frequent floor in steel. “I do not know that many individuals would know that Nicolas Cage is a large steel head,” Miller informed MovieWeb in a latest interview.
“I feel in our first conversations, we had been simply speaking about steel bands for like an hour. I do not know that we talked in regards to the film that we had been going to do. He’d flown me in to fulfill with him, to form of see if I used to be the man for the job.” Miller went on to say:
“We talked about music for the primary hour earlier than we even acquired to the film. And we simply had a blast speaking about bands, speaking about steel, speaking about what he liked about that stuff, and the way [heavy metal] form of is infused into his character when appearing. And you’ll sort of see it when you concentrate on it. You are like, ‘Okay, yeah, I get it. I completely get it.’”
Realizing that Miller and Cage bonded over heavy steel, we needed to ask if there have been any bands particularly that they collectively liked. “Metallica was one which stood out for me as a result of he was into that and Black Sabbath,” Miller stated, “and I used to be like, ‘Dude, we’re speaking my language proper now. We might discuss this all day.’ […] There have been just a little bit extra obscure bands, like this band known as Darkest Hour that he had heard of, and I used to be like, ‘You have heard of them?’ As a result of they felt actually underground to me. We simply had an actual geek-out second with some actually enjoyable steel bands.”
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The Many Faces of Nicolas Cage
Rock on. Flashback to any variety of Nicolas Cage roles and also you’ll discover a fiery metal-like edge. From Leaving Las Vegas, Vampire’s Kiss, and Wild at Coronary heart to more moderen outings like Ghost Rider, Renfield, Dream Situation, and Longlegs, Cage is a grasp performer who usually goes full steel (particularly when his hair is lengthy and flowing, like Moonstruck, Con Air, and his masterpiece, Pig). In Miller’s Arsenal, the actor starred alongside John Cusack and Adrian Grenier in a narrative that tracked a Southern businessman desperately making an attempt to rescue his mobster brother, who was kidnapped by against the law boss (Cage).
Miller shared that Cage is “additionally a man that actually likes to improvise. And I did not actually know that.” He added, “So, getting the possibility to be on set and him saying, ‘Hey, look, I am actually going to go on this entire course with this scene. Can we attempt it?’ And, you understand, if Nic needs to attempt one thing, I used to be all for it.”
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Their film was amongst a succession of tasks that took Miller to new heights as a filmmaker, paving the way in which for First Kill starring Bruce Willis, Line of Responsibility starring Aaron Eckhart, and his newest action-horror film Werewolves, headlined by an superior Frank Grillo (The Purge, Creature Commandos, Superman). The movie tracks one lengthy bloody evening as a supermoon unleashes a dormant gene in people, which transforms them into beasts. Grillo performs one of many males decided to save lots of humanity in probably Miller’s finest movie but. At the very least till he works with Cage once more. Arsenal is obtainable on Prime Video and Apple TV+. Werewolves opens in theaters December 6.
Arsenal
- Launch Date
- January 6, 2017
- Forged
- Nicolas Cage , Tyler Jon Olson , Heather Johansen , John Cusack , Abbie Gayle , Lydia Hull , Adrian Grenier , William Mark McCullough , Johnathon Schaech , Christopher Coppola , Carrie Jo Hubrich
- Runtime
- 97minutes
- Writers
- Jason Mosberg
- Distributor(s)
- Lionsgate