Two-time Oscar nominee Willem Dafoe will join Oscar winner Nicolas Cage in Paul Schrader‘s crime thriller “Dog Eat Dog,” based on the book of the same name by Eddie Bunker, it was announced Thursday.
Arclight Films and Pure Dopamine have just started production on the film, which Schrader (“Taxi Driver”) will direct from a script he co-wrote with Matthew Wilder.
“Dog Eat Dog” is a gritty contemporary crime thriller about a trio of ex-cons, deep in the underbelly of Los Angeles, who are hired for a kidnapping. When the botched abduction goes awry and gets completely out of control, the cons find themselves on the run, vowing to stay out of prison at all costs.
The film is being produced by Mark Earl Burman and David Hillary of Pure Dopamine, and executive producers by Gary Hamilton, Don Rivers, Tim Peternel, Shaun Redick and Ray Mansfield.
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Dafoe, who earned Oscar nominations for his supporting turns in “Platoon” and “Shadow of the Vampire,” is represented by CAA and Circle of Confusion.