American actor Nicolas Cage is set to play a buffalo hunter in a film adaptation of John Williams' novel 'Butcher's Crossing'. As per Variety, the upcoming movie is being helmed by Gabe Polsky, who has directed documentaries like 'Red Army' and 'Red Penguins'. Shooting for the film will begin in the US in October.

The movie is also a reunion of sorts, as Polsky was a producer on Cage's 2009 movie 'Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans'. The film is set in the 1870s and finds Cage playing Kansas buffalo hunter Miller, who takes on a young Harvard dropout seeking his destiny out West. The movie is based on the 1960 transcendentalist novel by Williams, which explores man's relationship with the natural world and details a largely untold but significant chapter in American history.