Willem Dafoe Added To Dog Eat Dog

Hoping that his new crime thriller has better luck than his last movie, the creatively difficult and frustrating Dying Of The Light, Paul Schrader is bulking up the cast as he continues shooting in Cleveland. Willem Dafoe has joined Nic Cage in Dog Eat Dog.

Adapted by the director and Matt Wilder from Eddie Bunker’s book, Dog Eat Dog follows three criminals and former jailbirds who are hired to pull off a kidnapping. But when the job goes badly wrong, the trio finds themselves on the run on dangerous streets in Los Angeles, unsure of who they can trust, but vowing that they won’t be going back to prison.

Schrader has also conjured up some rough art for the film, which can be seen here. “We’re doing something bold here in Cleveland and I wanted to get away from the generic Nic Cage artwork of the past several years,” he says. I got burned last time. This time I’ve got final cut.” Burned, of course, refers to his experience on Light, which saw both the director and Cage quit after the producers took the film away from him. The new one should be out next year.

Dafoe has several films headed our way including What Happened To Monday?, The Headhunter’s Calling and The Great Wall, which lands here on January 6, 2017.