From the Associated Press:

A movie starring Nicolas Cage as a soldier-turned-mystic bent on revenge will be shot in India early next year, an executive of the film’s producer, Virgin Comics, said Friday.

The film is an adaptation of a comic book series about English soldier James Jensen, who is on the hunt in India for the man who murdered his family.

“Our goal is to start filming in India in early 2008,” Gotham Chopra told The Associated Press.

“Nick chose Shekhar to direct the film. The sadhu is an iconic character,” Gotham Chopra said. “He is an Indian equivalent of the samurai. He is the spiritual warrior of the mind.”

Cage became interested in the project after reading the comic last year.