THR:
The $13 million psycho-thriller will be the first English-language project from German production group Bavariapool.
COLOGNE, Germany – German production outfit Bavariapool has greenlit its first English-language production, the psycho-thriller Black Butterfly with Nicolas Cage and German actress Veronica Ferres attached to star.
Cage will play the reclusive author Paul, who befriends a drifter, with fatal consequences. The $13 million feature is based on the French TV thriller Papillon noir which starred Stephane Freiss and ex-soccer star Eric Cantona as the drifter Jack.
The star has been attached to the film from Square Peg and A24.
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