Nicolas Cage heading for a busy end to 2026. After taking on his first minor star role and returning to the world of web slinging as Ben Reilly in Prime Video’s Emmy Award Black oxhe has two more films to hit the big screen this month. The first is on the docket David O. Russelland A wolfputs you in the shoes of the legendary football coach of the title in select theaters on November 11th before coming to Amazon’s streaming platform a week later. Soon after, on November 20, he joins Justin Long and Shelley Hennig for the bonkers action thriller The Best Pancakes in the Countyreleasing simultaneously on digital and the silver screen. The wait for his long-awaited comeback as arms dealer Yuri Orlov is also coming to an end.
On January 22, 2027, Vertical will release Lords of Warthe long-awaited sequel to Cage’s 2005 cult classic crime thriller Lord of War written and directed by Andrew McColl. The film was originally announced back in 2023, with production slated to begin later that year and into 2024, but plans changed, and the project finally came together in late 2025. Niccol was also brought back to pen and directed Yuri to return to theaters, coming off the star-studded live-action hybrid I, Rud. It introduces a new member of the family this time in the form of the illegitimate offspring of the charismatic, seemingly ruthless crook, Anton, played by Bill Skarsgård. Ahead of their explosive reunion, the first teaser has been released, giving an early look at the intertwined father and son battle for power.
Lords of War building with the world’s most notorious arms dealer – partly based on the famous real-life criminal Viktor Bout – years after his terrible deal with the Sierra Leonean militia in Africa. His legacy is suddenly threatened by a mercenary genius who he soon discovers is Anton’s son and is building a large private army. With the two competing for power, influence, and even the same woman, they are drawn into a bloody battle to the death, where ambition and betrayal fuel their relationship as bitter rivals rather than family. All of this is set against the backdrop of the US wars in the Middle East, highlighting the true influence of arms dealers in promoting death and destruction for their own ill-gotten gains.
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Five legends. Five completely different ways to get out alive: with style, with muscles, with charm, with luck, or with a plan so complicated it probably shouldn’t work. Ten questions will reveal which action hero was built to have your back. Select your channel
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Rambo The original 1982 album You don’t have to wonder if he has your back. You’ll just know.
Your partner doesn’t talk much, he doesn’t need to, and he’ll have counted all the threats around you before you finish your first sentence. John Rambo is not a man of plans or politics. It is a force shaped by survival, loyalty and endurance that no amount of training alone can produce. He does not leave people behind. What you get is the quietest partner imaginable, someone who has gone through what would have broken anyone else and decided to keep going. Why is he your partner
He reads the ground like other people read a room.
It will stand between you and the worst person without talking about it.
He says almost nothing, and he is never wrong.
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The original 1982 version came from David Morrell’s 1972 novel, which ends very differently.
Stallone cut most of his own dialogue in the edit so that the character was almost silent.
Five films over thirty-seven years, from 1982 to the fifth in 2019.
Saying little He will not leave anyone Built to last
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James Bond Doctor No, 1962 He has lived in things no business has lived, and he does it with style.
Your partner arrives perfectly dressed, well-informed, and with a cover story convincing enough that you need a moment to remember what’s real. Bond is the most professionally dangerous person in any room he walks into and the most attractive, which is the whole point. It works in layers, where nothing is as it seems and every advantage is used without apology. You will never be bored. You get angry from time to time. Why is he your partner
It’s better in the room than it is on paper, and it’s excellent on paper.
He will not explain the plan, and the plan will work.
He treats charm like a tool, and it’s a very effective one.
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Eon has made twenty-five Bond films since Dr. Or in 1962, over six actors.
Denis Villeneuve is directing the next one for Amazon MGM, who took creative control in 2025.
The search for the new 007 was still ongoing through 2026, with screen tests ongoing.
Charm as a tool Always informed No worries
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Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1981 A scholar’s eye and a brawler’s instinct, which is an unusual and very effective pair.
Your partner knows the history, the language, the cultural context, and exactly why what everyone else is ignoring is the most important thing in the room. Indiana Jones is brilliant, reckless and sometimes impossible, and also one of the most useful people you could have by your side. He hates snakes and will be attached to things of historical importance, both of which will last you at least once. It won’t matter. Why is he your partner
He has read what no one else thought to read.
He’ll risk the whole plan for the artifact, and he’ll be right about half the time.
He prepares better than most.
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The Cairo swordsman scene was improvised on the day because Harrison Ford had dysentery.
Raiders was filmed in about 73 days, which was fast even in 1981.
Dial of Destiny in 2023 was the fifth and last time for Ford, at the age of eighty.
He knows the history Irresponsible schoolboy Improviser
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John Johnson Hardly, 1988 His superpower is hostility and his contingency plan is improvisation.
Your partner wasn’t supposed to be here. He doesn’t have the right equipment, the right information, or anything resembling the right opportunities. He has a bitter attitude and refuses to accept that the situation is as bad as it clearly is. John McClane is the unsung hero of action cinema, a man with an ability to absorb more than anyone should and carry on in a way that would be terrifying if not so useful. He complains all the time. It will come through. Why is he your partner
He turns anything in the room to his advantage.
It’s funnier when things are at their worst.
He never agrees that it’s over.
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Die Hard was based on Ruairidh Thorpe’s novel, Nothing Lasts Forever, a sequel to a book filmed in 1968.
Nakatomi Plaza is Fox Plaza, which was the headquarters of the studio itself at the time.
Bruce Willis was a television comedy actor then, and way down the cast list.
Pure stubbornness Do improvise Complaining all over
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Ethan Hunt Mission: Impossible, 1996 The mission will be impossible. It will end anyway.
Your partner has run seventeen scenarios before you ended the meeting, and the one he settled on includes at least two things that shouldn’t be physically possible. Ethan Hunt works at the outer edge of human ability, technically and physically, and brings the same unwavering determination to protecting his partners that he brings to taking down groups that shouldn’t exist. He is not easy to know and will never tell you everything. At least he can take the weight. Why is he your partner
He takes the risk himself rather than assigning it.
It’s three moves ahead and won’t say which three.
It treats your survival as the ultimate goal.
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Cruiser dangled off the side of an Airbus A400M at a thousand feet for the opening of Rogue Nation.
The HALO jump in Fallout 106 took hold, filmed at dusk for the light.
The Final Countdown in 2025 was the eighth film, and was sold as the last.
Taking the risk Never explain it End it
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‘Lords of War’ reunites much of the Original Creative Team
The only face to return from the original is the cage Lord of Warwhich also appeared Ethan Hawke, Bridget Moynahanand Jared Leto among its stars. Despite the big names, it ultimately fell short of expectations at the box office with just $72.6 million before finding a second life as an audience favorite on DVD. The sequel also has a strong supporting cast, though. Laura Harrier, Sylvia Hoeksand Greg Tarzan Davis join the main father-son duo. Behind the scenes, Philippe Rousselet rejoined Cage and Niccol to once again serve as a producer alongside one of the lead producers of the first film, Fabrice Gianfermi.
Lords of War hits theaters on January 22, 2027. Check out the first teaser in the player above.
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