In one of his next projects, Nic Cage will no doubt be chewing the scenery as a group of flesh-eating creeps try to eat him.

It’ll be Cage versus a group of post-apocalyptic cannibals in the soon-to-be-filmed thriller Parish. The movie is still in pre-production, but Concourse Media will be shopping it at the Toronto International Film Festival next month, looking for distribution both domestically and globally.

The story behind Parish, according to the lengthy description provided by Concourse, takes place 30 years after a nuclear holocaust. Cage will play “a hardened survivor who has managed to stay alive with his highly trained attack dogs by following one unbreakable rule: never let anyone through the gate. That rule has kept him alive for three decades. But when a desperate woman carrying an infant appears outside his sanctuary, Parish is forced to choose between compassion and survival. His decision exposes the refuge he has spent years building and puts him in the crosshairs of a vicious band of cannibals closing in from the wasteland. With his highly equipped compound under siege and his past finally catching up with him, Parish is forced into a brutal fight to protect everything he has left.”

The film is to be written and directed by Adam Sigal, who helmed the Simon Pegg project Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose, which he also wrote. Filming is scheduled to start in Minnesota in October, so expect to see a lot of cold, bleak landscapes.

Press material provided to Deadline included quotes from Matthew Shreder, the CEO of Concourse and producer Joel Shapiro.

According to Shreder, “there’s a scale and pedigree to Parish that immediately separates it from the pack, with all the ingredients of a real theatrical event. Nic Cage is an incredible and fearless actor, with an extraordinary group of filmmakers around him who are all setting out to make a sophisticated survival thriller that’s a cinematic event built for a global audience.”

Shapiro added, “Adam has created a world that is savage, cinematic and incredibly visceral, but what drew us to Parish was the humanity underneath it. Nic Cage brings an unpredictability and emotional intensity that makes him perfect for this character. And to be building this world alongside artists like David Tattersall is incredibly exciting. We’re approaching this as a big-screen experience from the ground up.”