Dog Eat Dog
author / conductor Paul Schrader is famous for his screenwriting work with celebrated auteur Martin Scorcese on such contemporary classic asTaxi Driver , Raging Bull , The Last enticement of Christ , andBringing Out the Dead , and has been the seething , tortured voice to numerous critically acclaimed dramatic event in the past times , including a string of directorial sweat starting withBlue Collarin 1978 .
Even though his most recent creative outpouring , in the frame of the Bret Easton Ellis - pennedThe Canyonsfrom 2013 , did n’t quite make as bountiful of a plash as the venerable director might have hoped for , his latest productionDog Eat Dogalready fathom like a hopeful return to form . Based on the 1995 crime novel of the same by real sprightliness ex - con Edward Bunker , Schrader ’s latest stars Nicolas Cage ( Snowden ) and Willem Dafoe ( John Wick ) as duel mad men , though which of the two is disturbed than the other is open for interpreting as see in the film ’s first prescribed trailer .
In the footage featured above , Cage and Dafoe are on top form , with Cage playing the straight valet de chambre to Dafoe ’s ferine mad dog . With plenitude of unhinged sequence feature a luck of hectic , slapdash mayhem throughout , Schrader ’s dismal comedy should manage to turn a few heads when it finally sees theatrical release after premiering earlier this twelvemonth at Cannes Film Festival .
speak toIndieWire , Schrader sure enough seems assured that his new moving-picture show wo n’t be as compromised by studio apartment meddling as his last directorial excursion , give-up the ghost of theLight , was . Referring toDog Eat Dogas being " the film [ he ] wanted " to make , fans of Schrader ’s preceding career highlights are potential in for a real dainty once his Modern motion picture guarantee a distributer for domestic distribution .
John Milton Cage Jr. and Dafoe are always a joy to watch , and given how mad the two lead performer have proven themselves to be in wildly inventive role in the past , their employment together inDog Eat Dogshould furnish another thrilling issue for their respectively inimitable talents . Schrader may have been sting in recent years by a strand of ill receive and or developing productions , but with his belated dreary comedy crime drama the once universally celebrate filmmaker should be on track to deliver a true return to form hit , which should please moviegoer who still bear his greatest works in gamey regard .
pawl Eat Dogdoes not currently have a theatrical spillage date .
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