In the highly anticipated comedy The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, Nicolas Cage stars as Nicolas Cage. He must channel his best, most authentic inner Nicolas Cage and attend an upscale birthday party as himself while working for the CIA, using his best Nicolas Cage impressions to take down a criminal.

The CIA’s target is a wealthy man named Javi Gutierrez, played by Pedro Pascal, who is a huge fan of Nicolas Cage. Gutierrez will be paling around with Cage, talking about what he loves about Nicolas Cage and what he hopes to see from Cage in the future. Cage works to solve a crime mystery as only Nicolas Cage can. Ultimately, only Nicolas Cage can save everyone, including himself.

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It’s official. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is going to be the greatest movie we have ever seen. Possibly. Here’s why!

What Is The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent About?

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This movie’s precise tone and mission will continue to be unknown until its upcoming release date, but we have all we can do to stop gawking over the trailer. Even the film’s title tells us we can expect a not-so-fictional expose on a cultural icon who we love to celebrate. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent deals in some of Cage’s real-life facts and truths, such as his financial issues, his trademark acting and personality styles, and his mind-blowing sense of fashion, in a way expected to be both humorous and honorable.

Cage is widely known for spending his immense fortune on wild and rare commodities, such as dinosaur fossils, exotic animals, haunted houses, castles, and estates worldwide. Furthermore, according to the trailer, the film lovingly and with devoted homage exploits all the unique Nicolas Cage acting styles and techniques that he is widely recognized for and his eccentric personality. Nicolas Cage recently explained to delighted fans that he identifies as a goth. The rapidly evolving situation with this development quickly solidifies Cage as an even bigger cultural institution than he ever was.

Still, the essential aspect of The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent’s existence is this: the film comes just in time to celebrate with audiences how much we love the one-of-a-kind icon that is Nicolas Cage. This incredible man has yet to get his due, and this movie is shaping up to give him just that in a huge way. To see a major motion picture where a beloved actor pokes fun at himself and replays all the roles and things that we have always loved about him is a pretty huge deal. We are also so excited to see Pedro Pascal flex his comedic muscles and what kind of a duo these two very different actors will make. In the footage we have seen so far, it looks like the team’s adventures together will be action-packed but, more importantly, hilarious.

Why Unbearable Weight Is Bigger Than One Movie or Star

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We see Cage’s name pop up in more upcoming major motion pictures, such as the Dracula film Renfield. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is beefing up the trend of giving some of the audiences’ favorite artists a renaissance, a second-round in the spotlight where a newly grown, or even in charge, generation may admire them without interference or judgment. From Hayden Christensen to Steve Burns, to Keanu Reeves, and now to Nicolas Cage, the fact that this film exists reflects a growing shift of power in Hollywood, i.e., more millennials in charge. No millennial who has ever taken a history class does NOT know who Nicolas Cage is. We have all seen, bonded over, and quoted in glee the National Treasure movies we saw as a special treat during our grade-school days. For this alone, Cage is a generational hero.

Though he may have unjustly been the object of ridicule for his financial struggles and string of B-list movies in the 2000s, just like so many other stars from those days, millennials and some gen-z’s are finally seeing their likes and childhoods represented in mainstreaming media through projects like The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. There is also a certain depletion in toxic media and press coverage of these stars apparent in this shifting of power. There is no longer a prominent culture of ridicule to tell audiences that they shouldn’t like specific people or things and that people should not be ashamed to be themselves. It is also about rejecting the uniform standard of acceptability.

With the release of The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, fans everywhere will be gifted the freedom, and indeed the right, to stand up and say, “We love Nicolas Cage. And we always have.”