Nicolas Cage To Play Nicolas Cage in a Crazy Meta Drama Called THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT
Nicolas Cage is looking to take on a movie role that his whole career has been leading up to. The iconic actor is in final negotiations to play himself in an upcoming meta drama titled The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.
If Cage actually signs on to star in the film, he will play actor Nicolas Cage a character who “is desperate to get a role in a new Tarantino movie while also dealing with a strained relationship with his teenage daughter. He also occasionally talks to an egotistical 1990s version of himself who rides him for making too many crappy movies and for not being a star anymore.”
It’s explained that Cage’s character is also “under a mountain of debt and finds himself forced to make an appearance at the birthday party of a Mexican billionaire who happens to be a fan of Cage’s work and secretly hopes to show him a script on which he’s been working.”
The story gets even better, “while he bonds with the man, Cage is informed by the CIA that the billionaire is actually a drug cartel kingpin who has kidnapped the daughter of a Mexican presidential nominee, and is recruited by the U.S. government to get intelligence. The situation spirals even more dramatically when the Mexican brings over Cage’s daughter and his ex-wife for a reconciliation, and when their lives are on the line, Cage takes on the role of a lifetime.”
Nicolas Cage close the deal to star in this movie because it’s a movie that I have to see it! As you know, Cage has spent the last several years starring in a ton of low-budget films, one after another and they seem to get crazier and crazier. Well, this would be the ultimate Nic Cage movie!
The film project is set up at Lionsgate and the script for it comes from Tom Gormican and Kevin Etten, with Gormican attached to direct.
According to THR, “the script was shown to Cage accompanied with a letter that Gormican wrote, pleading his case and saying how the piece was a love letter to the actor, not something that made fun of him. Cage was convinced and became attached only in recent weeks.”
This is gonna be the great Nicolas Cage film of all time!