Nicholas Cage plays a former CIA field agent who has been obsessed for 22 years over a terrorist that everyone assumes is dead but that he believes is still alive. On the same day he finds out that he has an aggressive and incurable disease of the brain a coworker comes to him with proof that his dead nemesis might indeed be alive, although very likely terminally ill himself. Suffering from the onset of dementia and displaying troubling symptoms that make it clear he won't be functional for much longer, Cage decides to track down and kill his enemy, which he thinks will allow himself to close the book on his life in a satisfying way.
The behind-the-scenes story of Dying of the Light is that producers hired Paul Schrader to write and direct a movie and then decided that they didn't really want a Paul Schrader film after all. It happened before, most famously with his Exorcist prequel.
Writer/director Paul Schrader, stars Nicolas Cage and Anton Yelchin and original director/associate producer Nicolas Winding Refn have all disowned this version of the movie. Contractually barred from disparaging the finished product the men let their feelings be known by being photographed wearing t-shirts with the non-disparagement clause printed on the front.
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