Actor Nicolas Cage will play the lead in The Old Way, which marks his first-ever stint in a Western feature film.

According to reports, the film is directed by Brett Donowho from a script by Carl W Lucas. The plot will see Cage play Colton Briggs, a former gunslinger, who now runs a general store and lives quietly with his family. After a gang of outlaws murder his wife in cold blood, he is forced to go back to his old way of life, this time with an unlikely partner: his 12-year-old daughter.