Pedro Pascal in talks to join Cage in Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

You can keep your TENET, NO TIME TO DIE, or the Snyder Cut of JUSTICE LEAGUE; my most anticipated film is THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT, the one where Nicolas Cage plays himself. The upcoming meta-comedy will find Cage playing a stylized version of himself, as well as an egotistical 1990s version who is on his case for not being a major star anymore, and The Wrap has reported that Pedro Pascal (The Mandalorian) is in talks to join him.

Should Pedro Pascal officially sign on to THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT, he would play Javi, a Nic Cage superfan who is not all that he appears to be. The film will find Cage desperate to land a role in the new Quentin Tarantino film while also dealing with a strained relationship with his teenage daughter. Faced with crippling debt, Cage is forced to appear at the birthday party of a Mexican billionaire (Pascal) 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. This just seems like it has the potential to be so much fun. I can't wait. Production on the film is expected to kick off this fall.

Nicolas Cage has previously said that the '90s version of the character will be channeling the energy of a very specific Nicolas Cage, namely the one who made an extremely memorable appearance on Terry Wogan's chat show. "Remember that talk show I went on, Wogan, when I was promoting Wild At Heart?" Cage said. "Young Nic Cage [in the film] will be that guy. But this is a very stylized version of me. It’s definitely just me ‘taking the piss’, as they say, out of myself." Cage also teased that THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT may just contain a few re-enactments of some of his past work. "I’m probably going to have to look at a couple of the movies from the past again, because I think we’re gonna have to reenact some of those sequences. It’s like walking through a Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari version of Con Air and Face/Off," Cage said.