PremiumThe Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent to hit Netflix: Here's where you can watch Nicolas Cage taking on himself on OTT in India until then
The action comedy The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is now available on Lionsgate Play in India.
Last Updated: 01.13 PM, Jul 01, 2024
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, the 2022 action comedy, will soon drop on Netflix. The film, which stars Nicolas Cage as a fictionalized version of himself, will stream on the OTT giant starting July 21, 2024. However, the film is already available to stream on an OTT platform in India. Yes, you can watch the Tom Gormican-directed film currently on Lionsgate Play (OTTplay Premium).
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent plot synopsis and main cast
Nicolas Cage stars as Nick Cage in the action-comedy The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. The fictional Cage must accept a million-dollar offer to celebrate the birthday of a deadly superfan (Pedro Pascal), despite being creatively dissatisfied and financially ruinous. When a CIA agent (Tiffany Haddish) recruits Cage, things take a dramatically unexpected turn. Now, to rescue his family and himself, he must live up to his own reputation by bringing out the best in his most famous and adored onscreen characters. The legendary award-winning actor must play the part of a lifetime—Nicolas Cage—because his career has been created for this particular second.
Alessandra Mastronardi, Jacob Scipio, Sharon Horgan, Ike Barinholtz, Neil Patrick Harris, Tiffany Haddish, and Caroline Boulton are among the supporting cast members.
Lionsgate distributed the film, and the critics gave it mostly good reviews, praising Cage and Pascal's chemistry onscreen, but the movie bombed at the box office, earning just $29.1 million out of a $30 million budget.
Nicolas Cage's perspective and initial reaction
Earlier in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Cage spoke about his initial reaction to The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. He said that not a bit of it was acceptable to him. When he received Tom's letter, the actor thought, "OK, he's not just trying to mock so-called Nick Cage; there is a real interest in some of the earlier work." While the filmmaker was at the bottom of the pool in Leaving Las Vegas or using gold weapons in Face/Off, his tone was more homage to the actor's legendary performances.
A cut scene from the film captivated Cage. In one scene, Nick Cage's character immerses himself in a string of vignettes set in the stylized German expressionism of Dr. Caligari's office. Thus, there was a monochrome scene featuring a Mustang race reminiscent of Gone in 60 Seconds and another scene featuring the Leaving Las Vegas figure in a hotel room. It looked awesome and was a blast to make. In the end, the studio thought it was too experimental for the target demographic.
Additionally, he found the younger actor portraying Nicky to be genuinely engaging. At first, they were more interested in making the character resemble Cameron Poe from Con Air, but that's definitely not him. Cage added that in his Wild at Heart promotional appearance on the Wogan show in England, the man was a haughty, disrespectful, and libellous maniac. In his ideal world, as the Nick Cage of today, he would be facing off against the younger version of himself.