Nicolas Cage Joins Season of the Witch

Nicolas Cage will re-team with director Dominic Sena for the supernatural thriller “Season of the Witch.” Cage previously worked with Sena on “Gone in Sixty Seconds.”

Ryan Kavanaugh’s Relativity Media and Atlas Entertainment are backing the project, with Atlas founder Charles Roven and partner Alex Gartner set as producers. Screenplay was written by Bragi Schut Jr. (CBS’ “Threshold”)

Story chronicles the journey of 14th century knights transporting a girl suspected of being the witch responsible for spreading the Black Plague.

“Season of the Witch,” which had been in development at Columbia Pictures, will begin shooting in early November in Austria and Hungary.