Season of the Witch Experiencing Unseasonal Delays

Nic Cage's plans to dominate 2010 as the crazy action hero he was always meant to be has hit a sudden snag. According to Variety, Dominic "Swordfish" Sena's Season of the Witch has just been pulled by Lionsgate from its original March 19 release date. There's no word on when the film will be released but it's safe to say that this does not bode well for the film, which stars Cage as a medieval knight tasked with taking an evil witch to a monastery and killing her. The film also stars Ron Perlman as a knight, presumably as a lanky sidekick to Cage's witch-smiting hero.

While a spokeswoman said that they were looking for the most optimum date to unleash the film, it seems unlikely that they'd pull it five weeks before the release unless something went wrong in post-production. The film is Sena's latest since his comic book adaptation Whiteout which everyone in the world hated but me. It was also set to be the first of three films Cage would star in as a demented hero-type, before Matthew Vaughn's adaptation of Mark Millar/John Romita Jr.'s bloody super-hero black comedy Kick-Ass. It also foreshadows Jon "National Treasure" Turtletaub's The Sorcerer's Apprentice, a family-friendly fantasy film where Cage plays a Byronic wizard cursed with five o'clock shadow and the task of training a new apprentice (duh).

Fans of Cage's eccentric charms need not wait long to get their fix. According to Cage's IMDB profile, he's slated to star in a fourth project to be released in 2010, this one a thriller called The Hungry Rabbit Jumps about a man who hires a group of killers to hunt down the people that assaulted his wife. There's no word yet on what role Cage will play - hopefully one of the assassins - but Mad Men's January Jones and Guy Pearce are listed as co-stars. Witch or no witch, no man escapes Nic Cage!