Lionsgate has just released the first poster for Nicolas Cage’s bizarrely brilliant action-comedy The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. The audience will get to see Nicolas Cage take on his most memorable roles; his life and his family’s depend on it! Don’t kid yourselves, this is the Nicolas Cage film we have all been waiting for!
The setup for the film sees Nicolas Cage starring as… Nick Cage in the action-comedyThe Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. Creatively unfulfilled and facing financial ruin, the fictionalized version of Cage must accept a $1 million offer to attend the birthday of a dangerous superfan (Pedro Pascal). Things take a wildly unexpected turn when Cage is recruited by a CIA operative (Tiffany Haddish) and forced to live up to his own legend, channeling his most iconic and beloved on-screen characters in order to save himself and his loved ones. With a career built for this very moment, the seminal award-winning actor must take on the role of a lifetime: Nicolas Cage.
With the meta cornucopia of Cage incarnations, it seems we’ll be taking a stroll down memory lane of all of our favorite Cage films. One person who won’t be taking the stroll with us is Cage himself. He shares about his experience playing the iconic Nicolas Cage speaking toIndiewireexplained, “I’m never going to see that movie. I’m told it’s a good movie. My manager, Mike Nilon, who is also a producer on it, looked at it. He was very happy. I’m told the audience loved the movie. But it’s just too much of a whacked-out trip for me to go to a movie theater and watch me play Tom Gormican’s highly-neurotic, anxiety-ridden version of me. Because he kept pushing me in that direction. I said ‘Tom, that’s not really me. I’m really (made of) quiet, meditative, thoughtful moments. I’m not this neurotic, high-strung, anxiety-ridden guy all the time.’ But he said, ‘well, neurotic Cage is the best Cage.’ I said, ‘okay, okay. Let’s go, man. I’ll do what you want.’ I won’t see it. But I do hope you enjoy it.”
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He goes on further to explain, “It’s a stylized version of me, and the fact I even have to refer to myself in the third person makes me extremely uncomfortable,” Cage said of the project previously. “There are many scenes in the movie where modern or contemporary - here we go - ‘Nic Cage’ and then young ‘Nic Cage’ are colliding and arguing and battling it out. It’s an acrobatic approach to acting. 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 re-enact some of those sequences. It’s like walking through aCabinet of Dr. Caligariversion ofCon AirandFace / Off.”
Starring alongsideNicolas Cagewill be, Sharon Horgan, Ike Barinholtz, Alessandra Mastronardi, Jacob Scipio, Lily Sheen, Neil Patrick Harris, and Tiffany Haddish. The film was directed by Tom Gormican and written by Tom Gormican & Kevin Etten. Lionsgate’sThe Unbearable Weight of Massive Talentpremieres theatrically on July 21, 2025.
