Move on over, Matthew McConaughey. The Cageaissance is here. Nicolas Cage has been back in action in a big way. The actor has earned rave reviews for his work on Pig and The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, and Deadline reports that Nicolas Cage is now set to star in Dream Scenario, a new comedy from A24 that Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen will produce through their Square Peg production banner.
Unfortunately, we don’t know all that much about this new Nicholas Cage comedy, but I am more than ready for whatever Cage has in store for us. Kristoffer Borgli, who made his directorial debut with Sick of Myself, is set to helm Dream Scenario. Sick of Myself debuted at the Cannes Film Festival and followed a couple in an unhealthy, competitive relationship that takes a vicious turn when one of them suddenly breaks through as a contemporary artist.
Nicolas Cage has plenty of projects on his slate, including Renfield, a horror comedy in which he plays Count Dracula. The film is based on an original story by Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead) and focuses on Renfield (Nicholas Hoult), who has grown sick and tired of centuries spent as Dracula’s lackey. He finds a new lease on life and maybe even redemption when he falls for feisty, perennially angry traffic cop Rebecca Quincy (Awkwafina). Chris McKay directed the movie based on a screenplay by Ryan Ridley. Renfield will hit theaters on April 14, 2023.
The actor also has a pair of westerns on the way, his first time working in the genre. First up is Butcher’s Way, in which Cage plays a buffalo hunter who embarks on a harrowing journey risking life and sanity with a young Harvard dropout seeking his destiny out West. Butcher’s Way is set to debut at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 9th. Next will be The Old Way, which finds Cage playing a former gunslinger who is forced back into action when a gang of outlaws murders his wife in cold blood. He unearths his sidearm and saddles up with an unlikely partner: his twelve-year-old daughter.
We may not know anything about it at this point, but are you ready for another Nicolas Cage comedy?