Nicolas Cage To Star In 'Black Butterfly'

Black Butterfly
German production outfit Bavariapool has greenlit its first English-language production, the psycho-thriller Black Butterfly with Nicolas Cage and German actress Veronica Ferres attached to star.

Cage will play the reclusive author Paul, who befriends a drifter, with fatal consequences. The $13 million feature is based on the French TV thriller Papillon noir which starred Stephane Freiss and ex-soccer star Eric Cantona as the drifter Jack.