Nicolas Cage is going medieval.

The National Treasure star is in Austria filming the 14th-century supernatural thriller Season of the Witch. He plays a knight charged with exiling a sorceress. “He has come back from the Crusades and has lost his faith in the church and in God,” says producer Charles Roven (The Dark Knight).

The witch is played by Claire Foy (British TV’s Little Dorrit). Ron Perlman (Hellboy) co-stars.

“Wherever the witch has gone, the plague has followed,” Roven says. “So they need to transport her to the mountains and perform a ritual that will lift whatever enchantment she has on the land.”

source: USA Today, by Anthony Breznican