“Mandy,” “Midsommar,” and Quentin Tarantino‘s Oscar-winning “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood” have seemingly helped to usher in a new wave of films about cults and subsequent revenge to the modern mainstream, and director Nick Cassavetes is jumping aboard the train too.
Deadline has word that Cassavetes (“John Q“) will be writing and directing a feature film for Union Capitol Patriot Management and XYZ Films, titled “God Is A Bullet,” with production set to begin on May 24 in Mexico City. The upcoming action thriller’s main cast includes Jamie Foxx, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Maika Moore, January Jones, and Andrew Dice Clay. The film an adaption of the novel written by Boston Teran
Coster-Waldau is set to play Detective Bob Hightower, who quits the police force after they botch an investigation of a satanic cult that killed his ex-wife and kidnaps his daughter. Hightower, after getting tattoos, goes after them by infiltrating the cult himself with the help of an escapee played by Moore tries to hunt down the cult leader and find his missing daughter.
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Foxx is playing the pivotal role of The Ferryman, but how he factors in the plot isn’t exactly spelled out. Could he be playing the cult leader? In the past, he’s played villains, such as the brutal character Bats in Edgar Wright‘s energetic heist flick “Baby Driver.”
Given the filming will be taking place in Mexico City, there is a large likelihood we could end up seeing more additions to the cast, including Latinx actors. The Mexican location is certainly giving flashbacks to Tony Scott‘s underrated 2004 kidnap and revenge thriller “Man Under Fire,” which paired Oscar-winner Denzel Washington as a bodyguard with a young Dakota Fanning as his client.