Huge news for Nicolas Cage's film shot in WA town

Nicolas Cage’s newest Australian psychological thriller is heading straight to one of many world’s most prestigious movie festivals.

Stan Original Film The Surfer will premiere on the 2024 Cannes Film Festival in Official Selection for the Midnight Screenings part.

The movie, directed by Lorcan Finnegan, joins a prestigious line-up of movies at this yr’s occasion, together with Megalopolis, the most recent venture from Francis Ford Coppola, and Yorgos Lanthimos ‘ Kinds of Kindness.

READ MORE: First have a look at the brand new Stan Original Film The Surfer starring Hollywood royalty Nicolas Cage

The Surfer follows a person who returns to Australia to purchase again his household dwelling after a few years within the US, however he is left humiliated in entrance of his teenage son by a bunch of native surfers who declare possession over the secluded seashore of his childhood.

Wounded, he defies them and stays on the seashore, demanding acceptance.

As the battle escalates he’s introduced proper to the sting of his sanity and his total id is thrown into query.

The Nicolas Cage-led manufacturing additionally stars loads of native expertise, together with Julian McMahon, Miranda Tapsell, Nicholas Cassim, Alexander Bertrand, Justin Rosniak, Rahel Romahn, Finn Little and Charlotte Maggi.

The ‘intensely unnerving’ movie was shot in a single location in Yallingup in Western Australia in 2023.

Cage had been noticed round that space throughout manufacturing, with a video of the actor going viral as he stopped in at close by Busselton Food of Asia for a few groceries.

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The Surfer is a Stan Original Film, in partnership with CinemaPlus and Madman Entertainment who will likely be releasing the movie theatrically in Australia and New Zealand.

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