Lord of War: According to Variety, Ethan Hawke, Jared Leto, Bridget Moynahan, Jeffrey Wright and Donald Sutherland have inked to appear opposite Nicolas Cage in writer-director Andrew Niccol's $42 million Lord of War.

The film starts shooting July 19 in New York, Romania and South Africa.

Niccol, who scripted The Terminal and The Truman Show and wrote and directed Gattaca and Simone, has penned a drama that casts Cage as a ruthless global arms dealer trying to stay a step ahead of a relentless Interpol agent (Hawke).