Nicolas Cage to play Nicolas Cage in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

Hollywood has given us so many great characters over the decades, but is there any greater than Nicolas Cage? Sure, some may write the character off as a lot of loud yelling and silly wigs, but Nicolas Cage is definitely up there with Indiana Jones, Ellen Ripley, Michael Corleone, and the rest. It's not an easy role to play, but THR has the scoop on the perfect actor to fill the role for an upcoming film – Nicolas Cage.

The outlet has reported that Nicolas Cage is in final negotiations to star in THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT, a meta-movie project which I'm sure just soared to the top of your list of most anticipated movies. Cage will play himself in the film, which will find the actor desperate to land a role in the new Quentin Tarantino film while also dealing with a strained relationship with his teenage daughter. Every so often, he also happens to speak with an egotistical 1990s version of himself who is on his case for making too many bad movies and not being a major star anymore. I already love it, but there's more – Faced with crippling debt, Nicolas Cage is forced to appear at the birthday party of a Mexican billionaire who just so happens to be a fan and wants to show him the script he's been working on. After bonding with the man, the CIA enters the picture and informs Cage that the billionaire is actually a drug cartel kingpin who has kidnapped the daughter of a Mexican presidential nominee. Tasked with gathering intelligence, Cage's job gets all the more dangerous when the billionaire brings over Cage's daughter and ex-wife for a reconciliation. Son of a bitch, we need this movie.

Scripted by Tom Gormican and Kevin Etten, with Gormican attached to direct, THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT will include nods to famous Nicolas Cage movies such as LEAVING LAS VEGA, FACE-OFF, and GONE IN 60 SECONDS, and it's been said that the project will have a similar tone to ADAPTATION, JCVD, and GET SHORTY. When the script was first shown to Nicolas Cage, Gormican attached a letter saying that the film is really a love letter to the actor rather than something which makes fun of him, which quickly convinced the actor to sign on. THR's sources say that interest in the project is so high that Nicolas Cage could pull in quite the payday, something in the same range as what he received for movies like CON AIR and NATIONAL TREASURE.