Nicolas Cage's Most Exciting 2022 Movie Risks Ignoring His Best Ever Role
Nicolas Cage's most exciting upcoming movie The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent could potentially ignore his best-ever movie role. Starring alongside Pedro Pascal of Game of Thrones and The Mandalorian, Cage plays a fictional version of himself who attends the birthday party of Pascal's Javi, a Spanish billionaire obsessed with the actor. The movie will pay homage to Cage's career, from his role as Castor Troy in Face/Off to Cameron Poe in Con Air. Upon arriving at Javi's estate, the two form a friendship until things take a turn, forcing him to recreate his legendary roles to save his wife and daughter from Javi's clutches.
Nicolas Cage is known for his prolific career and distinct acting style. He is the subject of countless internet memes and has several well-known works on his resume, including Moonstruck, Adaptation, and the National Treasure franchise for which he was so integral that a reboot without Cage wouldn't work. Arguably the best role of Cage's career is in 1995's Leaving Las Vegas as alcoholic screenwriter Ben Sanderson. Cage earned his only Academy Award ever for the role, beating legendary actors Anthony Hopkins and Richard Dreyfuss. Leaving Las Vegas is based on John O'Brien's semi-autobiographical 1990 novel of the same name, and follows Cage's Sanderson to Las Vegas on a mission to "drink [himself] to death" after he loses his job. In Vegas, he meets the prostitute Sera (Elizabeth Shue), and the two fall in love over their mutual acceptance of each other's destructive lifestyle.
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