Nicolas Cage is reteaming with his Gone in Sixty Seconds director on a supernatural thriller set in the fourteenth century. It may turn out to be interesting.

In their effort to rebound from the box office failures of their most recent films, actor Nicolas Cage and director Dominic Sena are teaming up on the upcoming supernatural thriller Season of the Witch.

In 2000, Cage and Sena teamed on the successful Gone in Sixty Seconds, which starred Cage as a master car thief.

Cage’s latest film, Bangkok Dangerous, failed badly in its theatrical release last month, and Sena’s last film came out in 2001, the unexpectedly poor-performing John Travolta heist film Swordfish.

Sena has also directed the Antarctica-based mystery-thriller Whiteout, which is scheduled for release next April 24. It stars Kate Beckinsale and sounds rather interesting. (And I, for one, will not miss the suggestions of lesbianism that were in the graphic novel on which the film’s story and characters are based.)

Here’s what the Hollywood Reporter has to say about Season of the Witch:

Cage will play a 14th century knight transporting a girl suspected of being the witch behind the Black Plague. His compatriots help him bring the girl to an abbey of monks trained in exorcising demons.

Production is set to begin in early November in Austria and Hungary. Relativity Media and Atlas Entertainment are backing the project.

Sounds interesting to me, and the religious implications of Cage’s films are usually good. Also, I like the Donovan song that provides the film’s title.