While meta-action fans anxiously await his turn as “Cock Puncher” in the Untitled Onion Movie, Steven Seagal is still wheeling and dealing, thank you very much. Per The Hollywood Reporter, his rather amazing auteurship will continue with A Higher Form of Learning, an action thriller from Insight Film Studios and Cinetel that Seagal wrote and will star in. This comes on the heels of Prince of Pistols, Seagal’s recent directorial follow-up to 1994’s On Deadly Ground — which helped Michael Caine make mortgage payments, and also featured Billy Bob Thornton. A Higher Form of Learning reportedly centers on a detective who travels the world
in pursuit of serial killers. Before long, he finds himself walking in Memphis, hunting two
murderers while also chasing his own demons. As of press time, there was no word on whether said demons were masters of sartorial weight control…