Overview
- The casting and project details were first reported Wednesday, August 19, 2026, with Deadline and multiple outlets naming Nicolas Cage as the lead of Parish and publishing the film’s official synopsis.
- Parish is set 30 years after a nuclear apocalypse and follows Cage’s eponymous survivor, who keeps a fortified compound and attack dogs by enforcing the rule never to let anyone through the gate.
- The plot complication reported in the announcement centers on a desperate woman with an infant whose arrival forces the protagonist to weigh compassion against survival and draws a band of cannibals to his refuge.
- Writer-director Adam Sigal, producers Joel Shapiro and Steven Tyler Sahlein, executive-producer/financier Matthew Shreder’s Concourse Media and DoP David Tattersall are publicly attached as the film moves into pre-production.
- Concourse’s world pre-sales push at the TIFF market is being used to raise international financing and distribution ahead of principal photography, a common strategy to lock funding before shooting begins.