Nicolas Cage’s forthcoming British Second World War thriller, *Fortitude*, has become the subject of a $105 million lawsuit against Netflix filed by its writer, Simon Afram. The dispute adds to a difficult production history for the film, which has previously been delayed by a separate legal conflict involving Martin Scorsese.

*Fortitude* is directed by Simon West and features Cage alongside Matthew Goode, Ed Skrein, Alice Eve and Michael Sheen. Afram had sued Scorsese in 2023, alleging that he accepted a $500,000 executive-producer payment without helping the project proceed; that case was settled out of court after a countersuit, while the article gives no further details of Afram’s new claims against Netflix.