Nicolas Cage to battle cannibals in new film Parish

Nicolas Cage has signed on to lead Parish, an upcoming post-apocalyptic action thriller in which he will face a vicious group of cannibals.

The 62-year-old Hollywood actor leads the cast of writer-director Adam Sigal's next movie, portraying one of the last known survivors of a nuclear apocalypse who finds himself forced into a "brutal fight" to protect all that he still has to hold dear.

According to Deadline, the description of the film says Cage will play "a hardened survivor who has managed to stay alive with his highly trained attack dogs by following one unbreakable rule: never let anyone through the gate. "

The synopsis continued: "That rule has kept him alive for three decades.

"But when a desperate woman carrying an infant appears outside his sanctuary, Parish is forced to choose between compassion and survival. His decision exposes the refuge he has spent years building and puts him in the crosshairs of a vicious band of cannibals closing in from the wasteland.

"With his highly equipped compound under siege and his past finally catching up with him, Parish is forced into a brutal fight to protect everything he has left."

Matthew Shreder, CEO of Concourse Media, said: "There's a scale and pedigree to Parish that immediately separates it from the pack, with all the ingredients of a real theatrical event.

"Nic Cage is an incredible and fearless actor, with an extraordinary group of filmmakers around him who are all setting out to make a sophisticated survival thriller that's a cinematic event built for a global audience."

Cage recently insisted he doesn't have a preference when it comes to playing heroes or villains.

"Villain? I've played plenty of villains. I like both. I think they're both important parts of cinema. I would not want to get trapped into doing one thing," he told People magazine.