The actor will play a version of himself accepting $1m to attend a superfan’s party in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
Nicolas Cage is to play himself in a film called The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, it has been announced.
Deadline reports that Cage will play a fictionalised version of himself in what is described as a “meta” story, in which he is paid $1m to attend a wealthy superfan’s birthday party. According to the plot description, he has to “become a version of some of his most iconic and beloved characters in order to extricate himself from an increasingly dangerous situation”.