Nicolas Cage Is Back With Terrible Hair And A Terrible Accent In A Brand-New Terrible Movie

God love you, Nicolas Cage. For National Treasure, for The Wicker Man, for Ghost Rider; for every shitty, shitty movie an actor of your stature could’ve and should’ve turned down out of hand, but instead embraced with an enthusiasm and hamminess that brings joy to people everywhere. What other actor would’ve given themselves so completely to a scene where his face is covered in bees?

Now, praise be, Nicolas Cage is back, this time as a rampaging Crusader knight with an indefinable accent who finds himself in medieval China alongside Hayden Christensen for some fucking reason. From what I can tell from the gloriously ridiculous trailer, Outcast basically combines two very familiar plot types; the little boy in China who’s the Chosen One/Rightful King and is pursued by an evil warlord, and the well-meaning white dudes who stumble on a helpless enclave of ethnic people and save the day.

I could be entirely wrong, though, because this thing looks goddamn hilarious.

I am going to see this movie when it comes out, and I am going to be drunk.

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Outcast opens September 26 in China, and February 27 in the US.