Nicolas Cage Thriller ‘Sympathy for the Devil’ Acquired by RLJE Films

Joel Kinnaman also stars in the film about a driver and passenger brought together under tense circumstances

RLJE Films

RLJE Films has acquired the Nicolas Cage-starring psychological thriller “Sympathy for the Devil” from worldwide sales agent Capstone Global.

The AMC Networks subsidiary will distribute the film in North America, the U.K., Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, with a release date set for July 28, 2023.

Co-starring Joel Kinnaman (“The Suicide Squad” 1 & 2, “Hanna”), “Sympathy for the Devil” tells the story of a man (Kinnaman) who is forced at gunpoint to drive a strange passenger (Cage) in a game of cat and mouse where everything is not as it seems.

Yuval Adler (“Bethlehem,” “The Operative”) directed from a debut script by Luke Paradise.

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