Nicolas Cage’s The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent gets a trailer

Nicolas Cage as Nic Cage in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. Photo Credit: Katalin Vermes/Lionsgate

Nicolas Cage’s new film is called The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent. Directed by Tom Gormican , Cage will be playing two versions of himself and it sounds delightfully crazy.

Cage will portray a version of himself desperate to get a role in a new Quentin Tarantino movie while also struggling with a strained relationship with his teenage daughter. As he makes his way through life, he also talks to an egotistical version of himself from the ’90s who railroads him for making bad movies and not being the same star he was at the time, now dealing with a mountain of death and making an appearance at the birthday party of a Mexican billionaire that is a huge fan.

While bonding with the man, who hopes to show Cage a script he’s been working on, the actor learns from the CIA that the billionaire is actually a drug cartel kingpin who has kidnapped the daughter of a presidential nominee and is recruited to get intelligence. The predicament gets worse when the billionaire brings Cage’s daughter and ex-wife for a reconciliation and he must take on the role of a lifetime to save their lives.

Lionsgate has sent over the new trailer and you can watch it below.

The film also stars Pedro Pascal, Neil Patrick Harris, Tiffany Haddish, Sharon Horgan, and Lily Sheen. It hits US cinems on 22nd April 2022.