Nicolas Cage Goes Full Nicolas Cage in Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent Trailer

Lionsgate released the official trailer for Nicolas Cage’s upcoming action-comedy, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.

Cage stars as Nick Cage, a fictionalized, creatively unfulfilled version of himself who accepts an offer to attend the birthday party of a wealthy superfan named Javi, played by Pedro Pascal. The action-packed trailer highlights Cage and Javi’s budding friendship and the actor’s recruitment by two CIA agents, played by Tiffany Haddish and Ike Barinholtz, to infiltrate Javi’s inner circle. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent also stars Neil Patrick Harris as Cage’s agent, Alessandra Mastronardi, Jacob Scipio and Lily Sheen.

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As mentioned in the trailer, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent will see “a Hollywood legend will become a real-life hero” as Cage looks back at his most iconic roles like Con Air, Face / Off (spirit The Croods 2) to take down a dangerous criminal. Directed by Tom Gormican and co-written by Gormican and Kevin Etten, the film will feature car chases, intense shootouts, a duel between Cage and Javi with a pair of golden guns and a death-defying jump from a cliff into the ocean. Lionsgate released the film’s first teaser trailer in December 2021.

An Oscar-winning actor, Cage has had a long and storied career in the entertainment industry, starring in three films in 2021 alone, including Prisoners of Ghostland, Willy’s Wonderland and the critically acclaimed Pigthe latter of which won him a Critics Choice Award nomination for Best Actor.

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In a 2021 interview, Cage explained that while he had plans to take some time off “to recharge,” he is “never going to retire” from acting. “At my age, the job that I have is to stay interested, because if I’m not interested, you’re not going to be interested,” Cage said. “To do what I do in cinema has been like a guardian angel for me, and I need it. I’m healthier when I’m working, I need a positive place to express my life experience, and filmmaking has given me that. So I’m never going to retire. Where are we now, 117 movies? [Laughs]. “

Cage is also set to star in Universal Pictures’ upcoming horror comedy Renfield as Count Dracula, appearing opposite Nicholas Hoult’s titular henchman. Set to release in 2023, Renfield is a modern retelling of Bram Stoker’s original gothic novel, told from the perspective of the loyal, but tormented, assistant to the Transylvanian count who, after centuries, sets out to make it on his own.

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent opens in theaters on April 22, 2022.

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