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Pedro Pascal joins Nicolas Cage in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

August 25, 2020 by Gary Collinson

Wonder Woman 1984 and The Mandalorian star Pedro Pascal has signed on to star alongside Nicolas Cage in Lionsgate’s The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, The Wrap has revealed.

Directed by Tom Gormican (Ghosted) from a screenplay by Gormican Kevin Etten, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent will see Nicolas Cage playing a fictionalised version of himself who is desperately trying to get a role in a new Quentin Tarantino movie while dealing with a mountain of debt and a strained relationship with his teenage daughter.

Facing financial ruin, Cage accepts a $1 million offer to attend the birthday of a Mexican billionaire super fan (Pedro Pascal), and when things take a wildly dangerous turn, the Oscar-winner is forced to live up to his own legend, channelling his most iconic and beloved on-screen characters in order to save himself and his loved ones.

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Filming on The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is set to get underway in the fall, while Pascal will next be seen as the DC villain Max Lord in Wonder Woman 1984 before reprising the title role in the second season of Disney+’s Star Wars series The Mandalorian.

 

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Nicolas Cage, Pedro Pascal, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

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Gary Collinson is a film, TV and digital content producer and writer, who is the founder of the pop culture website Flickering Myth and producer of the gothic horror feature film 'The Baby in the Basket' and the upcoming suspense thriller 'Death Among the Pines'.

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