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It’s hard to believe that Nicolas Cage has been acting professionally for 40 years, has over 100 credits to his name and he has never once been in a Western, well that was until now. In fact in 2022 Nic shot two of them back to back just to make up for lost time, one was Butcher’s Crossing and the other was a film one critic summed up by calling it the mild, mild west. So saddle up partner as we dive deep into 59 year old Nicolas Cage’s western debut: The Old Way.

A retired gunslinger is forced to face the consequences of his past when the son of a man he killed in his outlaw days comes for revenge sending he and his young daughter on a mission of vengeance.

The Old Way stars Ron Howard’s weirdo brother and perennial character actor Clint Howard, a rising star who is learning how to chew scenery from the best James McCallister, Firestarter 2.0 and American Horror Story alum Ryan Kiera Armstrong, character actress and scene stealer Kerry Knuppe, and of course, the man with the best damn caterpillar mustache in showbiz, Academy Award winning actor and fastest gun in the old west Nicolas Kim Coppola better known as Nicolas Cage.