Back in May, we heard the first rumblings of an upcoming feature film called The Surfer, starring Nicolas Cage as the title character. Now we’re starting to see the first glimpses of Cage filming on location in Yallingup, Western Australia, as Perth Now reports.
To recap: the plot of the movie is that Cage stars as a surfer who leaves the United States to return to his Australian hometown. Once there, he is humiliated in front of his teenage son by a gang of surfers at his localized home break. In response, Cage’s character decides to remain at the beach and wage war against the gang. The film is being billed as a psychological thriller and directed by Lorcan Finnegan, who helmed Vivarium. So we’re expecting a more serious tone than most entries into the surf-movie canon.
Based on the clips we’ve seen recently of real-life surfers duking it out in the shallows, the movie seems dead-on in terms of depicting our culture’s love of fighting. We have yet to see any of Cage’s moves on a board, but he’s been staying at Taj Burrow’s house, so maybe he’s picked up a thing or two.
